Thursday’s Viewing Picks

Baseball
Exhibition, Okinawa Cellular Stadium, Okinawa, Japan
MLB All-Stars vs. Team Japan — MLB Network, 4 a.m.

College Basketball
Men’s
2K Classic, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Semifinals
Iowa vs. Texas — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
Cal vs. Syracuse — ESPN2, 9:30 p.m.

Charleston Classic, TD Arena, Charleston, SC
USC vs. Akron — ESPN3, 12:30 p.m.
Drexel vs. Miami (FL) — ESPNU, 3 p.m.
Penn State vs. Charlotte — ESPNU, 5:30 p.m.
Cornell vs. South Carolina — ESPN3, 8 p.m.

Emerald Coast Classic
Southern at Mississippi — SEC Network Plus, 8 p.m.

Hall of Fame Tip-Off
Navy at Providence — Fox Sports 2, 7 p.m.

Legends Classic
Bucknell at Villanova — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.

Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Texas A&M vs. Dayton — ESPNU, 10:30 a.m.
College of Charleston vs. UConn — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
Boston College vs. New Mexico — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
George Mason vs. West Virginia — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Michigan — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Jacksonville at North Carolina State — ACC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m.
Texas Southern at Tennessee — SEC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 7 p.m.
Florida Atlantic at Harvard — American Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Loyola Marymount at Arizona State — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Alabama — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Lipscomb at Vanderbilt — SEC Regional/Fox Sports Net, 9 p.m.
Fresno State at Northern Arizona — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 10 p.m.
Cal State-Bakersfield at San Diego State — Fox College Sports Pacific/Fox Sports San Diego, 10:30 p.m.
Nicholls State at UCLA — Pac-12 Networks, 11 p.m.

Inside College Basketball — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.

Women’s
Clemson at South Carolina — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Texas at Stanford — Pac-12 Networks, 9 p.m.

College Football
Kansas State at West Virginia — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
North Carolina at Duke — ESPN, 7:30 p.m.
Arkansas State at Texas State — ESPNU, 9:30 p.m.

BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
College Football Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m.
This Week in SEC Football — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.
Inside College Football — CBS Sports Network, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live: Countdown to Kickoff — Fox Sports 1, midnight

College Hockey
Men’s
Michigan State at Ohio State — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Fox Sports Detroit Plus, 7 p.m.

College Swimming & Diving
Texas Diving Invitational — Longhorn Network, 7 p.m.

FA Cup
First Round Proper
Maidstone United vs. Stevenage — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m.

Formula 1
Road to Ferrari — NBCSN, 7 p.m.
Road to Mercedes — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
World Tour Championship, Jumeirah Golf Estates (Earth Course), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
1st Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m.

LPGA Tour
LPGA Tour Championship, Tiburon Golf Club (Gold Course), Naples, FL
1st Round — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.

PGA Tour Australasia
Australian Masters, Metropolitan Golf Club, South Oakleigh, Australia
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 9:30 p.m.

MLB
MLB Now — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.

NBA
Los Angeles Clippers at Miami — TNT, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Sacramento — TNT, 10:30 p.m.

The Starters — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
Inside the NBA — TNT, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
Oakland at Kansas City — NFL Network/KSHB/KPIX, 8:25 p.m.

Around the NFL — NFL Network, 2 p.m.
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
NFL Total Access Kickoff live from the Coliseum Formerly Known as Oakland-Alameda County, Oakland, CA — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
Fantasy Football Live — NBCSN, 6:30 p.m.
Fantasy Football Uncensored — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
NFL Thursday Night Football Kickoff live from the Coliseum Formerly Known as Oakland-Alameda County, Oakland, CA– NFL Network, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday Night Football Postgame live from the Coliseum Formerly Known as Oakland-Alameda County, Oakland, CA — NFL Network, 11:30 p.m.
Undrafted: Episode 5 — NFL Network, midnight

NHL
Minnesota at Philadelphia — NHL Network (US)/Fox Sports North/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Nashville at Ottawa — RDS2/Fox Sports Tennessee/TSN5, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Montreal — RDS/Fox Sports Midwest/City TV Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Toronto — Sun Sports/TSN4, 7:30 p.m.
Detroit at Winnipeg — Fox Sports Detroit/TSN3, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Dallas — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Southwest, 8:30 p.m.
Chicago at Calgary — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Sportsnet Flames, 9 p.m.
Washington at Colorado — Sportsnet 360/Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/Altitude, 9 p.m.
Anaheim at Vancouver — KCOP/Sportsnet Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Carolina at Los Angeles — Fox Sports Carolinas/Fox Sports West, 10:30 p.m.
Florida at San Jose — Fox Sports Florida/Comcast SportsNet California, 10:30 p.m.

Hockey Central @ noon — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), noon
NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet 360, 11:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, midnight

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Hot Stove — MLB Network, 9 a.m.
The Rich Eisen Show live from the Coliseum Formerly Known as Oakland-Alameda County — Audience Network (DirecTV), noon
His & Hers — ESPN2, noon
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m./Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 4 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPNews, 6:30 p.m.
Podium 360 — Universal Sports, 7:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 10:30 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 11 p.m.

Tennis
ATP World Tour Finals Highlights — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m.
Champions Tennis League — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m.
Davis Cup Classic Match: 2011: Spain vs. Argentina: Rafael Nadal vs. Juan Martin Del Poltro — Tennis Channel, 8 p.m.

News
Presidential Statement on Immigration — Al-Jazeera America/CNN/Fox News/MSNBC/PBS/Telemundo/Univision, 8 p.m.

Entertainment
The Big Bang Theory — CBS, 8 p.m.
Bones — Fox, 8 p.m.
There’s Something About Mary — Cinemax, 8 p.m.
Untold With Maria Menounos: There Goes Honey Boo-Boo; From Scandal to Now; Zoe Saldana; Unstoppable 1 — E!, 8 p.m.
Food Truck Face-Off: Battle at Republic Square — Food Network, 8 p.m.
The Birds — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Latin Grammy 2014 — Univision, 8:10 p.m.
Bad Judge (The Final Days) — NBC, 9 p.m.
Donut Showdown: Football — Cooking Channel, 9 p.m.
Rehab Addict: Kitchen Overhaul — HGTV, 9 p.m.
Gracepoint — Fox, 9 p.m.
Ivory Tower — CNN, 9 p.m.
Dallas Buyers Club — HBO, 9 p.m.
Deadly Affairs: Drowned by Love — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
The Layover With Anthony Bourdain: Extra Miles: Paris — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Carnival Eats: Canadian National Exhibit; Prairiefest — Cooking Channel, 10 p.m.
Beat Bobby Flay: Shaken not Stirred — Food Network, 10 p.m.
House Hunters: Nashville, TN — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Monsters Inside Me: Vampire Parasites Attack — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
Ghost Stalkers: Farrar School — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Thanksgiving Unstuffed — FYI, 10 p.m.
Deadly Affairs: To Catch A Ghost (season finale) — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Django Unchained — Sho2, 10 p.m.
No Reservations: Europe Files: Volume 3 — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
Offbeat Eats With Jim Stacy: Day at the Beach — Cooking Channel, 10:30 p.m.
House Hunters International: Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom — HGTV, 10:30 p.m.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Eddie Redmayne — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Cathouse: The Musical — HBO, 11 p.m.
Sex With Sunny Megatron: BDSM — Showtime, 11 p.m.
E! News — E!, 11 p.m.
Conan — TBS, 11 p.m.
The Colbert Report: Jon Stewart — Comedy Central, 11:31 p.m.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — NBC, 11:34 p.m.
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC, 11:35 p.m.
Late Show With David Letterman — CBS, 11:35 p.m.
House on Haunted Hill — IFC, 11:45 p.m.
At Midnight: Nick Offerman; Aimee Mann; Dana Gould — Comedy Central, 12:01 a.m. (Friday)

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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