Saturday’s Viewing Picks

Arena Football
Jacksonville Sharks at Utah Blaze — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
Fremantle Dockers vs. Brisbane Lions — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 a.m.

Boxing
IBO Championship, South Africa
Kgole vs. Ramagole — beIN Sport, 1:30 p.m.

Boxing After Dark, Dallas, TX
Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez — HBO, 10:45 p.m.

College Baseball
College World Series, Omaha, NE
Mississippi State vs. Oregon State — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Indiana vs. Louisville — ESPN, 8 p.m.

College World Series Pregame — ESPNU, 2 p.m.
College World Series Postgame — ESPNU, 11 p.m.

Cycling
Tour De Suisse
Day 8: Zernez to Bad Ragaz — beIN Sport, 11:30 a.m.

FIFA Confederations Cup
Group A, Brasilia, Brazil
Brazil vs. Japan — ESPN, 2:30 p.m./Univision/Univision Deportes, 2:50 p.m.

Golf
U.S. Open, Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, PA
Third Round — NBC, noon

Live From the U.S. Open — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
SportsCenter at the U.S. Open — ESPN, 11 a.m.
Live From the U.S. Open — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m.
SportsCenter at the U.S. Open — ESPN2, midnight

IndyCar
The Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, WI
Firestone Lights Series — NBC Sports Network, 3 p.m.
Milwaukee IndyFest — NBC Sports Network, 4 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson Prelims — FX, 8 p.m.
UFC 161: Evans vs. Henderson — Pay Per View, 10 p.m.

UFC Countdown: UFC 161 — Fuel, 7 p.m.
UFC Post Fight Show — Fuel, 1 a.m (Sunday)

MLB
American League
Boston at Baltimore — MLB Network/NESN/MASN/WJZ, 4 p.m.
Kansas City at Tampa Bay — Fox Sports Kansas City/Sun Sports, 4 p.m.
Toronto at Texas — Rogers Sportsnet/Fox Sports Southwest, 4 p.m.
Chicago White Sox at Houston — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
New York Yankees at Anaheim Angels — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
Seattle at Oakland — Root Sports Northwest/Comcast SportsNet California, 7:15 p.m.

National League
Chicago Cubs at New York Mets — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/WPIX, 1 p.m.
Los Angeles Dodgers at Pittsburgh — KCAL/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.
Milwaukee at Cincinnati — Fox Sports Wisconsin/Fox Sports Ohio, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Colorado — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 4 p.m.
San Francisco at Atlanta — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Bay Area/Fox Sports South, 4 p.m.
St. Louis at Miami — Fox Sports Midwest/Fox Sports Florida, 4 p.m.
Arizona at San Diego — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports San Diego, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Washington at Cleveland — Fox, 7:15 p.m.

MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
MLB Player Poll — Fox, 6:30 p.m.
Fox Saturday Baseball Pregame — Fox, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 7 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 11 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 1 a.m. (Sunday)

MLL Lacrosse
Denver Outlaws at Chesapeake Bayhawks — CBS Sports Network, 6:30 p.m.

MLS
Portland vs. FC Dallas — ESPN, 5 p.m.
DC United vs. Toronto — TSN2/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, 7 p.m.
Columbus vs. Montreal — Univision Deportes/Fox Sports Ohio/TVA Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Colorado vs. San Jose — Altitude/Comcast SportsNet California, 9 p.m.
Vancouver vs. New England — Sportsnet Pacific/Comcast SportsNet New England, 10 p.m.

NASCAR
Nationwide Series
Alliance Truck Parts 250, Brooklyn, MI
Qualifying — ESPN2, 10:30 a.m.
Race — ABC, 2:15 p.m.

Sprint Cup Series
Quicken Loans 400, Brooklyn, MI
Final Practice — Speed, 12:30 p.m.

NASCAR Live: Michigan — Speed, noon

NHL Stanley Cup Final
Game 2: Boston Bruins at Chicago Blackhawks — NBC Sports Network/CBC/RDS, 8 p.m.

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight: Stanley Cup Final Pregame — NHL Network, 6 p.m.
Hockey Tonight: 2013 NHL Awards — CBC, 7 p.m.
NHL Live: 2013 NHL Awards — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Live — NBC Sports Network, 10:30 p.m.
Stanley Cup Rewind — NBC Sports Network, 11 p.m.
NHL Tonight: Stanley Cup Final Postgame — NHL Network, 11 p.m.

Sports Talk
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 11 a.m.
ESPN Sports Saturday — ABC, 4:30 p.m.
30 for 30: June 17, 1994 — ESPN Classic, 7 p.m.
Sky Sports News — Fox Soccer, 7 p.m.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster — ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.
Fox Soccer News — Fox Soccer, 10 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
AEGON Championships, Birmingham, England & Gerry Weber Open, Halle, GermanySemifinals — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.

WTA Tour
AEGON Championships, Birmingham, England
Semifinals — Tennis Channel, noon & 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

UEFA U-21 Championships
Semifinals
Spain vs. Norway — ESPN Classic, 11:15 a.m.
Italy vs. Netherlands — ESPN Classic, 2:15 p.m.

Entertainment
25 Things You Didn’t Know About … Seinfeld — Biography, 9 a.m.
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 9 a.m.
It’s All Geek to Me — Reelz Channel, 10 a.m.
Sell This House: Extreme: Mercer Island, Washington — A&E, 10 a.m.
E! News — E!, 10 a.m.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Showtime, 10 a.m.
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 10 a.m.
Dream House — HBO, 11 a.m.
The Way We Were — Sundance Channel, 11 a.m.
Giada at Home: Father’s Day Pasta — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
Once Upon a Time in the West — AMC, 11:30 a.m.
Trouble with the Curve — HBO, noon
People Like Us — Showtime, noon
Luke Nguyen’s Greater Mekong: Siem Reap, Cambodia — Cooking Channel, 12:30 p.m.
Primal Fear — Cinemax, 12:45 p.m.
Ali — Encore, 1:10 p.m.
The High Low Project: Relaxing Glam Bedroom — HGTV, 3 p.m.
America’s Best Bites: Frontier — Cooking Channel, 4:30 p.m.
Pretty Dangerous: Killer Cougars — Investigation Discovery, 8 p.m.
Zero Hour — ABC, 8 p.m.
The Dark Knight Rises — HBO, 8 p.m.
Alien Mysteries: Corina — Science, 8 p.m.
Saw — Showtime, 8 p.m.
Pretty Dangerous: Jennifer Twist — Investigation Discovery, 8:30 p.m.
Renovation Realities: The Threatt Job — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
Oddities: Vampires of Philadelphia — Science, 9 p.m.
Lava Chasers: Living With Lava — The Weather Channel, 9 p.m.
Zero Hour — ABC, 9 p.m.
Celebrity Ghost Stories: Shar Jackson; Blair Jackson; John Hensley — Biography Channel, 9 p.m.
Redneck Island: The Human Slingshot — CMT, 9 p.m.
Notes From Dad — Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.
Happily Never After: Led Into Temptation — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Dateline: Real Life Mysteries: Deadly Conspiracy — TLC, 9 p.m.
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks — TNT, 9 p.m.
Oddities: Bat Man & Ryan — Science, 9:30 p.m.
48 Hours: Highway of Tears — CBS, 10 p.m.
The Haunting Of …: Michael Rapaport — Biography, 10 p.m.
Heat — Cinemax, 10 p.m.
Reindeer Games — Encore, 10 p.m.
How Sex Changed the World: Extreme Sex — H2, 10 p.m.
Poisoned Passions: Sadistic Pleasure (series premiere) — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Ultimate Survival Alaska: The Extra Mile: Predator and Prey — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
The Crow — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Bad Santa — Starz, 10 p.m.
Misery — Sundance Channel, 10 p.m.
Dateline: Real Life Mysteries: Secrets in the Mist — TLC, 10 p.m.
Gone — Showtime, 10:30 p.m.
Jarhead — IFC, 11 p.m.
That Metal Show: Rex Brown; Sebastian Bach — VH1 Classic, 11 p.m.

About Ken Fang

Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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