Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, June 25

Boxing
Boxing After Dark/Super Lightweights: Devon Alexander vs. Lucas Matthysse — HBO, 9:45 p.m.

College Baseball
College World Series, Omaha, NE
ESPN, 2 p.m. (if necessary)
ESPN2, 7 p.m. (if necessary)

ESPN Sports Saturday
30 for 30 — ABC, 4 p.m.
Winners Bracket — ABC, 5 p.m.

Gold Cup Soccer
Championship, Pasadena, CA
USA vs. Mexico — Fox Soccer/Univision, 9 p.m.

Golf
Champions Tour/Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, 2nd round — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
LPGA Championship, 3rd round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.
PGA Tour/Travelers Championship, 3rd round — CBS, 3 p.m.

IndyCar Racing
Iowa Corn Indy 250 — Versus, 8 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
Bellator Fighting Championships — MTV2, 9 p.m.

MLB
Interleague
Colorado at New York Yankees — Root Sports Rocky Mountain/YES, 1 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Los Angeles Dodgers — Fox, 4 p.m.
Cleveland at San Francisco — Fox, 4 p.m.
New York Mets at Texas — Fox, 4 p.m.
Washington at Chicago White Sox — Fox, 4 p.m.
Arizona at Detroit — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Boston at Pittsburgh — NESN/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Kansas City — WGN America/Fox Sports Kansas City, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at Baltimore — Fox Sports Ohio/MASN, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Milwaukee — MLB Network/Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 7 p.m.
Oakland at Philadelphia — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet California/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Houston — Sun Sports/Fox Sports Houston, 7 p.m.
Toronto at St. Louis — Rogers Sportsnet/Fox Sports Midwest, 7:15 p.m.
Seattle at Florida (at Seattle) — Root Sports Northwest/Fox Sports Florida, 10 p.m.

National League
Atlanta at San Diego — SportSouth/Cox 4, 8:30 p.m.

Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 10 p.m.
MLB Tonight Live — MLB Network, 10 p.m.

NASCAR
Nationwide Series/Bucyrus 200 — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.

NHL
2011 NHL Draft, Rounds 2 — 7 — NHL Network/TSN, 11 a.m.

Soccer
U-17 World Cup
New Zealand vs. United States — ESPNU, 6:45 p.m.

Tennis
The Championships, Wimbledon/Gentlemen’s & Ladies’ 3rd round — ESPN2, 7 a.m./NBC, 1 p.m.

Wimbledon Primetime — Tennis Channel, 7 p.m.

Track & Field
U.S. Outdoor Championships — ESPN2, 1 p.m./NBC, 5 p.m.

WNBA
Connecticut at Indiana — NBA TV/Comcast SportsNet New England, 7 p.m.

Entertainment
5 Ingredient Fix: Reservations for Brunch — Food Network, 10:30 a.m.
Kelsey’s Essentials: Summer Desserts — Cooking Channel, 2:30 p.m.
CHAOS — CBS, 8 p.m.
CHAOS — CBS, 9 p.m.
Outcasts — BBC America, 9 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 10 p.m.
Coldplay: Live from Glastonbury — VH1, 10 p.m.
The Inbetweeners — BBC America, 11 p.m.
Come Fly with Me — BBC America, 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 26

Formula 1
Grand Prix of Europe — Fox, noon (same day coverage)

Golf
Champions Tour/Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, final round — Golf Channel, 7:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
LPGA Championship, final round — Golf Channel, 4 p.m.
PGA Tour/Travelers Championship, final round — CBS, 3 p.m.

MLB
2011 New York Yankees Old-Timers’ Day — YES, 11 a.m.

Interleague
Arizona at Detroit — Fox Sports Arizona/Fox Sports Detroit, 1 p.m.
Boston at Pittsburgh — NESN/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 1:30 p.m.
Cincinnati at Baltimore — Fox Sports Ohio/MASN2, 1:30 p.m.
Oakland at Philadelphia — Comcast SportsNet California/WPHL, 1:30 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Kansas City — Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Kansas City, 2 p.m.
Colorado at New York Yankees — TBS/Root Sports Rocky Mountain/YES, 2 p.m.
Minnesota at Milwaukee — Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 2 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Houston — Sun Sports/Fox Sports Houston, 2 p.m.
Washington at Chicago White Sox — MASN/WGN America, 2 p.m.
Toronto at St. Louis — Rogers Sportsnet/Fox Sports Midwest, 2:15 p.m.
New York Mets at Texas — SNY/Fox Sports Southwest, 3 p.m.
Anaheim Angels at Los Angeles Dodgers — KCOP/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 4 p.m.
Cleveland at San Francisco — ESPN, 8 p.m.

National League
Atlanta at San Diego — Fox Sports South/Cox 4, 4 p.m.

MLB Tonight Live — MLB Network, 5 p.m.
Baseball Tonight live from San Francisco — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch Live — MLB Network, 8 p.m.
Plays of the Week — MLB Network, 9 p.m.
MLB Tonight Live — MLB Network, 10 p.m.

MLS
Chicago vs. New York — ESPN, 2 p.m.
Seattle vs. New England — Comcast SportsNet New England, 4 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series/Toyota/Save Mart 350 — TNT, 3 p.m.

Soccer
U-17 World Cup
Germany vs. Panama — ESPNU, 3:45 p.m.
Brazil vs. Ivory Coast — ESPNU, 6:45 p.m.

Tennis
The Championships, Wimbledon/Best Matches of the Week — NBC, 2 p.m.

Wimbledon Primetime — Tennis Channel, 11 p.m.

Track & Field
U.S. Outdoor Championships — NBC, 5 p.m.

WNBA
Indiana at Minnesota — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

Women’s World Cup
Group A, Sinsheim, Germany
Nigeria vs. France — ESPN2, 8:45 a.m.
Germany vs. Canada — ESPN, 11:30 a.m.

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 9 a.m.
Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction: Cuba on the Q — Food Network, 11 a.m.
Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee: Italian Rivera — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, 7 p.m.
Nepal’s Stolen Children: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary — CNN, 8 p.m.
True Blood (season premiere) — HBO, 9 p.m.
Ice Road Truckers — History Channel, 9 p.m.
Cocaine Sub Hunt — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Leverage (season premiere) — TNT, 9 p.m.
The Glades — A&E, 10 p.m.
The Real L Word — Showtime, 10 p.m.
In Plain Sight — USA Network, 10 p.m.
Treme — HBO, 10:05 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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