Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, December 6

Boxing
Light Heavyweight Bout, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jean Pascal vs. Roberto Bolonti — Pay per view, 8 p.m.

Boxing After Dark, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY
Middleweights
David Lemieux vs. Gabriel Rosado — HBO, 10 p.m.

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football Viewing Picks

College Hockey
Men’s
Minnesota at Michigan State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 5 p.m.
Colorado College at Minnesota-Duluth — Fox College Sports Atlantic/Altitude/Fox Sports North Plus, 8 p.m.
Maine at UMass-Lowell — NBCSN, 8 p.m.

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

English Premier League
Newcastle vs. Chelsea — NBCSN/mun2, 7:45 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Sunderland — NBCSN, 10 a.m.
Hull City vs. West Bromwich Albion — Premier League Extra Time, 10 a.m.
Queens Park Rangers vs. Burnley — Premier League Extra Time, 10 a.m.
Stoke City vs. Arsenal — Premier League Extra Time, 10 a.m.
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Crystal Palace — Premier League Extra Time, 10 a.m.
Manchester City vs. Everton — NBC, 12:30 p.m.

Premier League Live — NBCSN, 7 a.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, 9:45 a.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, noon
Match of the Day — NBCSN, 11 p.m.

FA Cup
2nd Round Proper
Sheffield United vs. Plymouth Argyle — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:55 a.m.
Wrexham vs. Maidstone United — Fox Soccer Plus, 12:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Nedbank Golf Challenge, Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m.

PGA Tour
Hero World Challenge, Isleworth Golf and Country Club, Isleworth, FL
3rd Round — Golf Channel, noon/NBC, 2:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 181: Hendricks. vs. Lawler II, Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, NV
Prelims — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
Main Event — Pay per view, 10 p.m.

UFC Prefight Show: UFC 181 — Fox Sports 1, 7 p.m.
UFC Postfight Show: UFC 181 — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 a.m. (Sunday)

MLB
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 8 p.m.
Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards — MLB Network, 9 p.m.

NBA
Golden State at Chicago — WGN America/NBA TV, 8 p.m.

NBA Inside Stuff — NBA TV, noon
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 11 p.m.

NHL
Ottawa at Pittsburgh — RDS/TSN5/Root Sports Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.
St. Louis at New York Islanders — Fox Sports Midwest/MSG Plus, 1 p.m.
Philadelphia at Los Angeles — Sportsnet/TVA Sports/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Fox Sports West, 4 p.m.
Vancouver at Toronto — CBC, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Dallas — City TV/TVA Sports/Fox Sports Southwest, 7 p.m.
Chicago at Nashville — FX Canada/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports Tennessee, 7 p.m.
New York Rangers at Detroit — Sportsnet/NHL Network (US)/MSG Network/Fox Sports Detroit, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Florida — MSG Buffalo/Bell TV/Fox Sports Florida, 7 p.m.
Columbus at Tampa Bay — Fox Sports Ohio/Sun Sports, 7 p.m.
Washington at New Jersey — Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic/MSG Plus, 7 p.m.
Boston at Arizona — NESN/Fox Sports Arizona, 8 p.m.
San Jose at Calgary — CBC/Comcast SportsNet California, 10 p.m.

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

Scottish Premier League
Motherwell vs. Celtic — Fox Soccer Plus, 7:40 a.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Ladies Downhill — Universal Sports, 2:30 p.m.

Soccer
Women’s
FIFA Women’s World Cup Draw live from Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada — Fox Sports 1/mun2/Telemundo, noon

Sports Talk
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
The Announcement — ESPN Classic, noon
Elevate — ESPN Classic, 1:30 p.m.
Gunnin’ for That No. 1 Spot — ESPN Classic, 3 p.m.
30 for 30: Marion Jones: Press Pause — ESPN Classic, 5 p.m.
SEC Storied: Going Big — ESPN Classic, 6 p.m.
30 for 30: Survive and Advance — ESPN Classic, 7:15 p.m.
Two Points, One Title — ESPN Classic, 9:30 p.m.
Senna — ESPN Classic, 10 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.
The Day: Remembering Dale Earnhardt — Fox Sports 2, 10 p.m.

Swimming
12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Hamad Aquatic Centre, Doha, Qatar
Day 4 — Universal Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

Sunday, December 7

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football
College Football Playoff Selection Show — ESPN, 12:30 p.m.
Championship Drive: Who’s In? — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.

College Soccer
Women’s
College Cup, FAU Stadium, Boca Raton, FL
National Championship
Florida State vs. Virginia — ESPNU, 1 p.m.

College Wrestling
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State — Fox College Sports Atlantic, 3 p.m.

English Premier League
West Ham United vs. Swansea City — NBCSN, 8:30 a.m.
Aston Villa vs. Leicester City — NBCSN, 11 a.m.

Premier League Live — NBCSN, 7:30 a.m.
Premier League Live — NBCSN, 10:30 a.m.
Goal Zone — NBCSN, 1 p.m.
Match of the Day II — NBCSN, 1:30 p.m.

FA Cup
2nd Round Proper
Gateshead vs. Warrington Town — Fox Soccer Plus, 7 a.m.
Scunthorpe United vs. Worcester City — Fox Soccer Plus, 9 a.m.
Colchester United vs. Peterborough United — Fox Soccer Plus, 11:30 a.m.
Barnsley vs. Chester — Fox Soccer Plus, 1:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
Wycombe Wanderers vs. AFC Wimbledon — Fox Soccer Plus, 3:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Golf
European PGA Tour
Nedbank Golf Challenge, Gary Player Country Club, Sun City, South Africa
Final Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m.

PGA Tour
Hero World Challenge, Isleworth Golf and Country Club, Isleworth, FL
Final Round — Golf Channel, noon/NBC, 1:30 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 11:30 a.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC 1 on 1: Dominick Cruz — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
UFC Ultimate Insider: UFC 180: Cormier; Jones — Fox Sports 1, 8:30 p.m.
UFC’s Road to the Octagon: Dos Santos vs. Miocic — Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m.

MLB
MLB Tonight: Baseball Winter Meetings — MLB Network, 8 p.m.

MLS Cup
Final, StubHub Center, Carson, CA
LA Galaxy vs. New England Revolution — ESPN/UniMás/Univision Deportes/TSN/RDS2, 3 p.m.

Fútbol Central — Univision Deportes, 2 p.m.

NBA
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.

NFL Viewing Picks

NHL
Anaheim at Winnipeg — Fox Sports Prime Ticket/TSN3, 3 p.m.
Detroit at Carolina — Fox Sports Detroit Plus/Fox Sports Carolinas, 5 p.m.
Vancouver at Ottawa — City TV/TVA Sports/NHL Network (US), 7 p.m.
San Jose at Edmonton — Comcast SportsNet California/Sportsnet West, 9 p.m.

Rogers Hometown Hockey live from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada — City TV/NHL Network (US), 6:30 p.m.
Hockey Central — Sportsnet West, 8:30 p.m.
NHL Tonight — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Sailing
Volvo Ocean Race: Week 9 — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, Lake Louise, Alberta, Kansas
Ladies Super-G — Universal Sports, 1 p.m.

Sports Talk
Outside the Lines — ESPN2, 8 a.m./ESPNews, 9 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPN2, 8:30 a.m./ESPNews, 9:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, midnight

Swimming
USA Swimming Winter National Championships, Greensboro Aquatic Center, Greensboro, NC
Highlights — NBC, 12:30 p.m.

12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), Hamad Aquatic Centre, Doha, Qatar
Day 5 — Universal Sports, 8 p.m. (same day coverage)

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.

Quantcast