Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, October 27

Boxing
Boxing After Dark: Welterweights, Thomas Dulorme vs. Luis Carlos Abregu and two other bouts — HBO, 10:15 p.m.

CFL
Winnipeg at Hamilton — TSN/ESPN3, 12:30 p.m.
Toronto at Saskatchewan — TSN/ESPN3, 4 p.m.

College Football Viewing Picks

College Hockey
Alaska-Anchorage at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.

English Premier League
Aston Villa vs. Norwich City — Fox Soccer, 7:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Queens Park Rangers — Fox Soccer, 9:30 a.m.
Reading vs. Fulham — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:53 a.m.
Manchester City vs. Swansea City — Fox Soccer, 12:30 p.m.
Wigan Athletic vs. West Ham United — Fox Soccer, 3:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
Stoke City vs. Sunderland — Fox Soccer, 5:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European Tour: BMW Masters, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)
LPGA Tour: Taiwan Championship, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)
Web.com Tour: Tour Championship, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.
Champions Tour: AT&T Championship, 2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
PGA Tour: CIMB Classic, Final Round — Golf Channel, midnight

MLB Postseason
World Series
Game 3: San Francisco Giants at Detroit Tigers — Fox, 8:07 p.m. (San Francisco leads series, 3-0)

MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
World Series Pregame — Fox, 7:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

MLS
Philadelphia vs. New York — NBC, 1:30 p.m.
Montreal vs. New England — TVA/Comcast SportsNet New England, 2 p.m.
Chicago vs. DC United — NBC Sports Network, 4 p.m.
San Jose vs. Portland — NBC Sports Network/TSN, 6:30 p.m.
Colorado vs. Houston — Altitude/Fox Sports Southwest Plus, 9 p.m.
Real Salt Lake vs. Vancouver — KUCW/Sportsnet One, 9 p.m.

NASCAR
Camping World Series: Kroger 200 — Speed, 2 p.m.

NBA Preseason
Sacramento vs. Los Angeles Lakers at San Diego, CA — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine World Cup
Women’s Giant Slalom, Sölden Austria — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. (same day coverage)

Sports Talk
SportsNation — ESPNU, 10 a.m.

Tennis
WTA Tour: WTA Championships, Singles Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 8 a.m. & 10 a.m.
WTA Tour: WTA Championships, Doubles Semifinals — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m. & noon
ATP Tour: Swiss Indoors Basel, Semifiinals– Tennis Channel, 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Triathlon
2012 Ironman World Championship — NBC, 4 p.m.

Entertainment
Rehab Addict: Garage Door Greatness — DIY Network, 9 a.m.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Tipping Points — Cartoon Network, 9:30 a.m.
Rehab Addict: Unfinished-Finished Basement — DIY Network, 9:30 a.m.
Home Made in America With Sunny Anderson: Buffalo Chicken Lasagna and Four-Layered Cheesecake — Food Network, 9:30 a.m
Raising House: Haddon Township — DIY Network, 11:30 a.m.
Flipping Boston: No Good Deed … — A&E, noon
Giada at Home: Haunted House — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
Austin City Limits: The Shins; Dr. Dog — PBS, 8 p.m.
Too Cute!: Fuzzy Polar Puppies — Animal Planet, 8 p.m.
48 Hours: Hard Evidence — TLC, 8 p.m.
Scream 3 — IFC, 8 p.m.
Kelsey’s Essentials: Unexpected Desserts — Cooking Channel, 8:30 p.m.
The World According to Lance Armstrong — CNN, 9 p.m.
The Dark — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Katt Williams: It’s Pimpin’ Pimpin’ — Comedy Central, 9 p.m.
Underworld: Awakening — Starz, 9 p.m.
Family Under Construction: Bathroom Bust Up — DIY Network, 10 p.m.
How the States Got Their Shapes: Vice vs. Virtue — H2, 10 p.m.
48 Hours: Lina’s Heart — CBS, 10 p.m.
Pit Bulls and Parolees: Ghost Dog — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
Untold Stories of the E.R.: I Can’t Remember — Discovery Fitness & Health, 10 p.m.
Deadly Affairs: Sudden Death — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Doomsday Preppers Bugged Out: We’re Bugging Out — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
Family Under Construction: Living in Chaos — DIY Network, 10:30 p.m.
How the States Got Their Shapes: Midwest vs. the Rest — H2, 10:30 p.m.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Starz, 10:30 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show (season premiere) — BBC America, 11 p.m.
DL Hughley: The Endangered List — Comedy Central, 11 p.m.
Bedlam — BBC America, midnight

Sunday, October 28

CFL
Edmonton at Montreal — TSN/ESPN3, 1 p.m.

College Football
BCS Countdown — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.
ESPNU BCS Countdown — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
Northwestern at Wisconsin — Big Ten Network, 1 p.m.
San Diego State at Oregon State — Pac-12 Network, 5 p.m.

Women’s
Colorado at Arizona State — Pac-12 Network, 7 p.m.
Stanford at UCLA — Pac-12 Network, 9 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Louisville at Cincinnati — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
Oregon at Utah — Pac-12 Network, 1 p.m.
Penn State at Nebraska — Big Ten Network, 3 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma — ESPNU, 3 p.m.

English Premier League
Everton vs. Liverpool — ESPN2, 9:25 a.m.
Southampton vs. Tottenham Hotspur — Fox Soccer Plus, 10:53 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Manchester United — Fox Soccer, 11:30 a.m.
Newcastle United vs. West Bromwich Albion — Fox Soccer Plus, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)

Being: Liverpool (series finale) — Fox Soccer, 2 p.m.
Goals on Sunday — Fox Soccer, 3 p.m.

Figure Skating
ISU Grand Prix
Skate Canada — NBC, 2 p.m.

Formula 1
Indian Grand Prix — Speed, 5 a.m.

Golf
European Tour: BMW Masters, Final Round — Golf Channel, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)
LPGA Tour: Taiwan Championship, Final Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)
Web.com Tour: Tour Championship, Final Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 p.m.
Champions Tour: AT&T Championship, Final Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
PGA Tour: CIMB Classic, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, midnight

Golf’s Best of 2012 — CBS, 3 or 5 p.m.

MLB Postseason
World Series
Game 4: San Francisco Giants at Detroit Tigers — Fox, 8:15 p.m.

MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 7 p.m.
World Series Pregame — Fox, 8 p.m.
MLB Tonight: World Series Edition — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

MLS
Columbus vs. Toronto — Fox Sports Ohio/TSN/RDS2, 4 p.m.
Dallas vs. Chivas USA — Galavision/Fox Sports Southwest/Time Warner SportsNet, 7 p.m.
LA Galaxy vs. Seattle — ESPN, 9 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series: Tums Fast Relief 500 — ESPN, 1:45 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

Skiing
FIS Alpine World Cup
Men’s Giant Slalom, Sölden, Austria — Universal Sports, 10 a.m. (same day coverage)

Tennis
WTA Tour: WTA Championships, Doubles Final — Tennis Channel, 8:30 a.m.
ATP Tour: Swiss Indoors Basel, Final — Tennis Channel, 10 a.m.
ATP Tour: Valencia Open, Final — Tennis Channel, 12:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
WTA Tour: WTA Championships, Singles Final — ESPN2, 2 p.m./Tennis Channel, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Sandra’s Restaurant Remakes: Familiar Favorites — Food Network, 10 a.m.
Sandwich King: Trick or Treat Eats — Food Network, 11 a.m.
The Best Thing I Ever Made: Hauntingly Good — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, 7 p.m.
Mega Dens: A Mega Tale From the Crypt — DIY Network, 8 p.m.
Once Upon A Time — ABC, 8 p.m.
The Amazing Race 21: Chill Out, Freak — CBS, 8 p.m.
Call the Midwife — PBS, 8 p.m.
Drugged: High on Meth — National Geographic Channel, 8 p.m.
Making Monsters: A Monster in Malibu — Travel Channel, 8 p.m.
The Walking Dead — AMC, 9 p.m.
Brainwashed — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Boardwalk Empire — HBO, 9 p.m.
Sins & Secrets: Plattsburgh — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Alaska Heroin Rush — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Snapped: Velma Ogden-Whitehead — Oxygen, 9 p.m.
Dexter — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Making Monsters: Mega Monsters — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
House Crashers: Living Room Re-imagined — DIY Network, 9:30 p.m.
Flipping the White House — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Treme — HBO, 10 p.m.
House Hunters Renovation– HGTV, 10 p.m.
Unusual Suspects: Murder on the Menu — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Alaska State Troopers: Armed and Bootlegging — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
Homeland — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Talking Dead — AMC, 11 p.m.
Comic Book Men: Ghostbusting at the Stash — AMC, 11:30 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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