Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, December 22

Boxing
Fight Night: Tomasz Adamek vs. Steve Cunningham — NBC, 4 p.m.

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football
New Orleans Bowl, New Orleans, LA
East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette — ESPN, noon

Las Vegas Bowl, Las Vegas, NV
Washington vs. Boise State — ESPN, 3:30 p.m.

Notre Dame Year in Review Special — NBC, 2 p.m.

English Premier League
Wigan Athletic vs. Arsenal — ESPN2, 7:30 a.m.
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Stoke City — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:53 a.m.
Manchester City vs. Reading — Fox Soccer, 10 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Fulham — Fox Soccer, 12:30 p.m.
West Bromwich Albion vs. Norwich City — Fox Soccer Plus, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)
Newcastle United vs. Queens Park Rangers — Fox Soccer, 2:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
Southampton vs. Sunderland — Fox Soccer Plus, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)
West Ham United vs. Everton — Fox Soccer, 4:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
Golf Central Special: Major Championship Year in Review — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Hockey
2013 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship Pre-Competition
United States vs. Finland — TSN/NHL Network, 6 a.m. (replay — NHL Network, 7:30 p.m./TSN, 9:30 p.m.)
Canada vs. Sweden — TSN, 9 a.m.

MLB
MLB Network Countdown: Top 40 Breakout Performers in 2012 — MLB Network, 9 p.m.
MLB Network Countdown: Top 25 Personalities — MLB Network, 10 p.m.

NBA
Chicago at Atlanta — WGN America, 7 p.m.
Phoenix at Portland — NBA TV, 10 p.m.

NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

Scottish Premier League
Celtic vs. Ross County — Fox Soccer Plus, noon (same day coverage)

Sports Talk
Pardon the Interruption: Notre Dame Timeline — ESPNU, 9:30 a.m.
ESPN Sports Saturday — ABC, 4 p.m.

Entertainment
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 9 a.m.
Midnight in Paris — Encore, 9:10 a.m.
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 10 a.m.
Flipping Vegas: Grow House — A&E, noon
Grow Your Own Drugs for Christmas — Cooking Channel, 12:30 p.m.
The Matrix — HBO2, 12:30 p.m.
The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo — Cooking Channel, 2:30 p.m.
The Matrix Reloaded — HBO2, 2:50 p.m.
A White House Christmas: First Families Remember — E!, 5 p.m.
Cops — Fox, 8 p.m.
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol — NBC, 8 p.m.
Too Cute!: Puppy Love — Animal Planet, 8 p.m.
The Great Barrier Reef — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Rebel Without a Cause — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Kelsey’s Essentials: New NY Favorite — Cooking Channel, 8:30 p.m.
Renovation Realities: The Saslow Job — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
The Year in Pup Culture — Animal Planet, 9 p.m.
Celebrity Ghost Stories: 20 Most Evil Entities — Biography, 9 p.m.
Redneck Island — CMT, 9 p.m.
Frozen Planet: Edge of the Earth — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Motives & Murders: He Came for Me — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Starz, 9 p.m.
Renovation Realities: The Harris Job — DIY Network, 9:30 p.m.
Family Under Construction: Living in Chaos — DIY Network, 10 p.m.
48 Hours: Mystery on Twin Peaks Drive — CBS, 10 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 10 p.m.
The Haunting Of…: Gina Gershon — Biography, 10 p.m.
How the States Got Their Shapes: The United Shapes of America (season finale) — H2, 10 p.m.
Fatal Vows: Lies and Death — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Wedding Band — TBS, 10 p.m.
Behind the Music Remastered: Judas Priest — VH1 Classic, 10 p.m.
Family Under Construction: Bathroom Bust Up — DIY Network, 10:30 p.m.
That’s So ’90s — DIY Network, 11 p.m.
That’s So ’90s — DIY Network, 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, December 23

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football
ESPNU Film Room: BCS National Championship, ESPNU, 8 p.m.

English Premier League
Swansea City vs. Manchester United — Fox Soccer, 8:25 a.m.
Chelsea vs. Aston Villa — Fox Soccer, 10:30 a.m.

Goals on Sunday — Fox Soccer, 1 p.m.

Golf
World Long Drive Championship — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
Golf Central Special: Anchor Putter — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Presents Benson Henderson: Rising Up — Fuel, 8 p.m.

MLB
Fenway Park: 100 As the Heart of Red Sox Nation — MLB Network, 9 p.m.

NBA
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

Scottish Premier League
Kilmarnock vs. Hibernian — Fox Soccer Plus, 7:40 a.m.

Sports Talk
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 10 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPN2, 10:30 a.m.
30 for 30: Broke — ESPN, 4 p.m.
30 for 30: 9.79 — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 — ESPN Classic, 8 p.m.
SEC Storied: Going Big — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.
30 for 30: Benji — ESPN, 9:30 p.m.

Entertainment
On Thin Ice — BBC America, 8 a.m.
On Thin Ice — BBC America, 9 a.m.
On Thin Ice — BBC America, 10 a.m.
Fair Game — Showtime, 10 a.m.
On Thin Ice — BBC America, 11 a.m.
On Thin Ice — BBC America, noon
The Nativity — BBC America, 1 p.m.
Kitchen Crashers: Refined Rustic Kitchen — DIY Network, 7 p.m.
The Sound of Music — ABC, 7 p.m.
60 Minutes: An Evening of Music — CBS, 7 p.m.
Mega Dens: teal Table and Pink Chairs — DIY Network, 8 p.m.
Christmas at Luther: Tidings of Comfort and Joy — PBS, 8 p.m.
Deadly Men: Dealing With the Devil — Biography, 8 p.m.
Heartbreak Ridge — Encore, 8 p.m.
Inside Underground Poker — National Geographic Channel, 8 p.m.
Good Morning, Vietnam — Sundance Channel, 8 p.m.
Mega Dens: Melt With You — DIY Network, 8:30 p.m.
Roadtrip wtih G. Garvin: Best of the Bayou — Cooking Channel, 9 p.m.
House Crashers: Bachelor’s Wine Retreat — DIY Network, 9 p.m.
X-Ray: Yellowstone — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Fatal Encounters: Murder Around the Campfire — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Zombie Island — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Traffic — Showtime, 9:05 p.m.
Man Fire Food: Pit Masters — Cooking Channel, 9:30 p.m.
House Crashers: Northwestern Contemporary Basement Bar — DIY Network, 9:30 p.m.
Building Alaska — DIY Network, 10 p.m.
I Survived — Biography, 10 p.m.
On the Case with Paula Zahn: Painful Memories — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Alaska State Troopers: Meth Dealer Manhunt — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
Behind the Music Remastered: Green Day — VH1 Classic, 10 p.m.
Building Alaska: Framing is a Bear — DIY Network, 10:30 p.m.
Lost Treasure Hunters: Diamond Fever — Animal Planet, 11 p.m.
Be the Boss: Molly Maid — A&E, 11:01 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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