Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, November 15

Baseball
Japan All-Star Series, Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
Game 3: MLB All-Stars vs. Samurai Japan — MLB Network, 4 a.m.

Arizona Fall League
Championship, Scottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, AZ
Peoria Javelinas vs. Salt River Rafters — MLB Network, 3 p.m.

Boxing
Boxing After Dark, O2 World Arena, Altona, Hamburg, Germany
World Heavyweight Title Bout
Wladimir Klitschko vs. Kubrat Pulev — HBO, 4:45 p.m.

Under the Lights: Pacquaio-Algieri — HBO, 11:45 p.m.

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football Viewing Picks

College Hockey
Men’s
Notre Dame at Merrimack — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m.
Miami (OH) at North Dakota — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.
Minnesota at Minnesota-Duluth — Fox College Sports Pacific, 8:30 p.m.

College Water Polo
Men’s
Cal at USC — Pac-12 Networks, 1:30 p.m.

Figure Skating
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Rostelecom Cup, Luzhniki Arena, Moscow, Russia
Pairs Free Skate — Universal Sports, 1 p.m. (same day coverage)
Free Dance — Universal Sports, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Turkish Airlines Open, Montgomerie Maxx Royal, Antalya, Turkey
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 4 a.m.

PGA Tour
OHL Classic at Mayakoba, El Camaleon, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Lorena Ochoa Invitational, Club de Golf Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Golf Channel, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 180: Werdum vs. Hunt, Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Prelims — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
Main Event — Pay per view, 10 p.m.

Bellator 131, Valley View Casino Center, San Diego, CA
Light Heavyweights
Tito Ortiz vs. Stephan Bonnar — Spike, 9 p.m.

World Series of Fighting 15, USF Sundome, Tampa, FL
Middleweights
David Branch vs. Yushin Okami — NBCSN, 9 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Championship Round
Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, noon
Practice 3 — Fox Sports 2, 3 p.m.

Nationwide Series
Ford EcoBoost 300, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL
Qualifying — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
Race — ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

NASCAR Live: Homestead — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.
NASCAR Countdown — ESPN2, 4 p.m.

NBA
Indiana at Chicago — WGN America, 8 p.m.
Brooklyn at Portland — NBA TV, 10 p.m.

NBA Inside Stuff — NBA TV, noon
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NHL
Carolina at Boston — Fox Sports Carolinas/NESN, 1 p.m.
Minnesota at Dallas — Fox Sports North/Fox Sports Southwest, 2 p.m.
Anaheim at Los Angeles — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/Fox Sports West, 4 p.m.
Toronto at Buffalo — CBC/MSG Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Nashville — City TV/Fox Sports Tennessee, 7 p.m.
New York Rangers at Pittsburgh — FX Canada/MSG Network/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Montreal — Sportsnet/TVA Sports/NHL Network (US)/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Colorado at New Jersey — Altitude/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
San Jose at Columbus — Comcast SportsNet California/Fox Sports Ohio, 7 p.m.
Washington at St. Louis — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus/Fox Sports Midwest, 8 p.m.
Ottawa at Calgary — CBC/TVA Sports 2, 10 p.m.

Hockey Central — Sportsnet 360/NHL Network (US), 5 p.m.
Hockey Central Saturday — CBC/Sportsnet/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.
Hockey Central Postgame — CBC, 1 a.m. (Sunday)

Rugby
Rugby League Four Nations
Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand vs. Australia — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 a.m.

Soccer
African Cup of Nations
Qualifier, Mandela National Stadium, Kampala, Uganda
Uganda vs. Ghana — beIN Sports, 7:50 a.m.

Qualifier, Moses Mahbida Stadium-Durban, Durban, South Africa
South Africa vs. Sudan — beIN Sports, 9:55 a.m. (same day coverage)

Qualifier, Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt
Egypt vs. Senegal — beIN Sports, 11:55 a.m.

Qualifier, Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida, Algeria
Algeria vs. Ethiopia — beIN Sports, 2:25 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, Levi, Finland
Ladies Slalom — Universal Sports, 6:30 a.m.

Sports Talk
Dari & Mel — ESPNU, 9 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 9 a.m.
30 for 30: The U — ESPN Classic, noon
30 for 30: This Is What They Want — ESPN Classic, 2 p.m.
30 for 30: Hillsborough — ESPN Classic, 3 p.m.
The Express Xtra-Weekends — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
SEC Storied: Abby Head On — ESPN Classic, 7 p.m.

Tennis
ATP Tour
ATP World Tour Finals, The O2 Arena, London, England, United Kingdom
Doubles Semifinals
Lukasz Kubot/Robert Lindstedt vs. Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo — Tennis Channel, 7 a.m.
Julien Benneteau/Edouard Roger-Vasselin vs. Bob & Mark Bryan — Tennis Channel, 1 p.m.

Singles Semifinals
Novak Djokovic vs. Kei Nishikori — Tennis Channel, 9 a.m.
Roger Federer vs. Stanislaw Wawrinka — Tennis Channel, 1 p.m.

Tennis Channel Live — Tennis Channel, 5 p.m.

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Match Day 4
Group G, Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria
Austria vs. Russia — Fox Sports 2, 11:45 a.m.

Group C, Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Luxembourg vs. Ukraine — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:45 a.m.

Group E, AFG Arena, St Gallen, Switzerland
Switzerland vs. Lithuania — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA 2016 Highlights: Match Day 4, Saturday — Fox Soccer Plus, 11 p.m.

Entertainment
Cops: Familiar Faces — Spike, 8 p.m.
48 Hours: Prison Diaries — CBS, 8 p.m.
Dateline NBC: The Mystery on Bridle Path — NBC, 8 p.m.
Austin City Limits: Eric Church — PBS, 8 p.m.
My Cat From Hell: Appetite for Destruction — Animal Planet, 8 p.m.
Remember the Titans — Encore, 8 p.m.
Northpole — Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.
The LEGO Movie — HBO, 8 p.m.
On the Waterfront — Turner Classic Movies, 8 p.m.
Buying Alaska: Kenai Islands — Destination America, 9 p.m.
Atlantis: A New Dawn (season premiere) — BBC America, 9 p.m.
Airplane Repo: Wheels Up: Armed and Airborne — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Outrageous Thanksgiving — Food Network, 9 p.m.
America Unearthed: Guardians of Superstition Mountain — H2, 9 p.m.
Fatal Vows: Death of a Salesman — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
The Missing: Eden (series premiere) — Starz, 9 p.m.
Transporter: The Series: The General’s Daughter — TNT, 9 p.m.
48 Hours: Devil’s Island — CBS, 10 p.m.
Saturday Night Live — NBC, 10 p.m.
D-Day to Victory: Battle of the Bulge — American Heroes Channel, 10 p.m.
Pit Bulls and Parolees: Healing Hearts — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 10 p.m.
Railroad Alaska: Avalanche Zone — Destination America, 10 p.m.
Airplane Repo: Wheels Up: Mid-Air Collision — Discovery, 10 p.m.
House Hunters International Renovation: Johannesburg, South Africa — HGTV, 10 p.m.
Scorned: Love Kills: Strippercam — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
Sex Sent Me to the E.R.: Rock n’ Romp — TLC, 10 p.m.
Transporter: The Series: City of Love — TNT, 10 p.m.
The Dead Files: Intolerance: Warsaw, IN — Travel Channel, 10 p.m.
Sex Sent Me to the E.R.: Extra Dose: Pole Position — TLC, 11 p.m.
Saturday Night Live with host Woody Harrelson and musical guest Kendrick Lamar — NBC, 11:29 p.m.

Sunday, November 16

Baseball
Japan All-Star Series, Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
Game 4: MLB All-Star vs. Samurai Japan — MLB Network, 4 a.m.

CFL
Grey Cup Playoffs
Eastern Semi-final, Percival-Molson Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BC Lions at Montreal Alouettes — TSN/ESPN3, 1 p.m.

Western Semi-final, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Saskatchewan Roughriders at Edmonton Eskimos — TSN/ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football
Championship Drive: Who’s In? — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.

College Hockey
Women’s
Boston College at New Hampshire — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 7 p.m.

College Soccer
Men’s
ACC Championship, Wakemed Soccer Park, Cary, NC
Clemson vs. Louisville — ESPNU, 2 p.m.

Conference USA Championship, ODU Soccer Complex, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Old Dominion vs. South Carolina — Fox Sports Net, 2 p.m.

American Athletic Conference Championship, Joseph J. Morrone Stadium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Tulsa vs. South Florida — ESPNU, 10:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Stanford at Cal — Pac-12 Networks, 4 p.m.
San Diego State at UCLA — Pac-12 Los Angeles, 4 p.m.
Oregon State at Washington — Pac-12 Oregon/Pac-12 Washington, 4 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Florida at Kentucky — SEC Network, noon
Oregon State at Arizona — Pac-12 Networks, 2 p.m.
Washington State at Colorado — Pac-12 Washington/Pac-12 Mountain, 2 p.m.
Georgia at Alabama — SEC Network, 2 p.m.
Mississippi at Missouri — SEC Network, 4 p.m.

Figure Skating
ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating
Rostelecom Cup, Luzhniki Arena, Moscow, Russia
Men’s and Ladies Free Skate — NBC, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Turkish Airlines Open, Montgomerie Maxx Royal, Antalya, Turkey
Final Round — Golf Channel, 3:30 a.m.

PGA Tour
OHL Classic at Mayakoba, El Camaleon, Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Final Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 1:30 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Lorena Ochoa Invitational, Club de Golf Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Final Channel, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Ultimate Knockouts: Heavyweights — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
UFC Ultimate Insider — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 p.m.
UFC Unleashed: Fight of the Night Winners — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.

MLB
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 8 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Chase for the Cup, Championship Round
Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL
Race — ESPN, 3 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: Homestead — Fox Sports 1, noon
NASCAR Countdown — ESPN, 1 p.m.
NASCAR Victory Lane: Homestead — Fox Sports 1, 7:30 p.m.

NBA
Houston at Oklahoma City — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 10 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

NHL
San Jose at Carolina — Comcast SportsNet California/SportSouth, 5 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota — TSN3/Fox Sports North, 5 p.m.
Montreal at Detroit — City TV/RDS/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Chicago — TVA Sports/Fox Sports Southwest/WGN, 7 p.m.
Florida at Anaheim — Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports Prime Ticket, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Edmonton — Fox Sports Arizona/Sportsnet West, 9 p.m.

Rogers Hometown Hockey live from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada — City TV/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
NHL on the Fly — NHL Network, 7 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, Levi, Finland
Men’s Slalom — Universal Sports, 6:30 a.m.

Sports Talk
Outside the Lines — ESPNews, 8 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPNews, 8:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m.
Courage in Sports — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.
ESPN Films: Two Points, One Title — ESPN, 9 p.m.
Geno Auriemma Project: Together — ESPN2, 10:30 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
NBCSN Sunday Sports Report — NBCSN, 11:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, midnight

Tennis
ATP Tour
ATP World Tour Finals, The O2 Arena, London, England, United Kingdom
Doubles Finals — Tennis Channel, 10:30 a.m.
Singles Final — ESPN2, 1 p.m.

Davis Cup Preview: 2014 Finals — Tennis Channel, 12:30 p.m.

UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Match Day 4
Group A, Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Netherlands vs. Latvia — Fox Sports 2, 11:45 a.m.

Group B, GSP Stadium, Nicosia, Cyprus
Cyprus vs. Andorra — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:45 a.m.

Group H, Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy
Italy vs. Croatia — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

Group A, Doosan Arena, Plzen, Czech Republic
Czech Republic vs. Iceland — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.

Group A, Ali Sami Yen Spor Kompleksi, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey vs. Kazakhstan — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA Euro 2016 Pregame — Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2/Fox Soccer Plus, 2 p.m.
UEFA Euro 2016 Highlights: Match Day 4, Sunday — Fox Sports 2, 10 p.m.

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — CBS, 9 a.m.
Top 20 Video Countdown — VH1, 9 a.m.
Giada at Home: Giving Thanks — Food Network, 10:30 a.m.
Bull Durham — Sundance TV, 10:45 a.m.
Southern at Heart: Friends-Giving Leftovers — Food Network, noon
Weather Geeks — Weather Channel, noon
Farmhouse Rules: Farmhouse Thanksgiving — Food Network, 12:30 p.m.
Lars and the Real Girl — Sundance TV, 1 p.m.
The Running Man — IFC, 2:45 p.m.
Parents Just Don’t Understand: The Junior Jockey & Jingle Writer — Discovery Family Channel, 3 p.m.
A Healthy You & Carol Alt — Fox News, 4 p.m.
America’s Funniest Home Videos — ABC, 7 p.m.
60 Minutes — CBS, 7 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Kauai — HGTV, 8 p.m.
Once Upon A Time — ABC, 8 p.m.
Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map — Comedy Central, 8 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier Exposed: Greener Pastures — Discovery, 8 p.m.
Captain Phillips — Encore, 8 p.m.
Angels and Ornaments — Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.
Madam Secretary — CBS, 8:01 p.m.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Fox, 8:30 p.m.
Hawaii Life: Maui — HGTV, 8:30 p.m.
The Walking Dead: Consumed — AMC, 9 p.m.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Jamaica — CNN, 9 p.m.
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Waste Not, Want Not — Discovery, 9 p.m.
Holiday Baking Championship: Classic Holiday Flavors — Food Network, 9 p.m.
The Newsroom: Run — HBO, 9 p.m.
Argo — HBO Signature, 9 p.m.
48 Hours on ID: The Long Island Serial Killer — Investigation Discovery, 9 p.m.
Snapped: Tammy Armstrong — Oxygen, 9 p.m.
Homeland — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Bar Rescue: A Dash of Bitters — Spike, 9 p.m.
Tricked Out Trains: Train Styles of the Rich and Famous — Travel Channel, 9 p.m.
Strangest Weather on Earth: Killer Sea Foam — Weather Channel, 9 p.m.
The Comeback — HBO, 10 p.m.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — CBS, 10 p.m.
Dogs of War: Duane — A&E, 10 p.m.
Finding Bigfoot: Baked Potato Bigfoot — Animal Planet, 10 p.m.
This is Life With Lisa Ling: Called to the Collar — CNN, 10 p.m.
Edge of Alaska: Legends of the North: Last Days of Winter — Discovery, 10 p.m.
Cutthroat Kitchen: Thanks, but no Thanksgiving — Food Network, 10 p.m.
Red 2 — HBO2, 10 p.m.
On the Case With Paula Zahn: Trapped by Lies (season finale) — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
The Affair — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Catch a Contractor: Run for the Border — Spike, 10 p.m.
Dirty Harry — Sundance TV, 10 p.m.
Tricked Out Trains: Beauty Back on Track — Travel Chanel, 10 p.m.
American Supernatural: Maine’s Ghost on Catherine Hill — Weather Channel, 10 p.m.
Talking Dead — AMC, 10:01 p.m.
Getting On — HBO, 10:30 p.m.
Cops Reloaded — CMT, 11 p.m.
Comic Book Men: Bat Prints — AMC, midnight

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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