Weekend Viewing Picks

Saturday, June 11

Arena Football
Jacksonville Sharks at Tampa Bay Storm — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.

Australian Rules Football
Geelong Cats vs. North Melbourne Kangaroos — FS2, 5 a.m.

Boxing
Showtime Championship Boxing, Turning Stone Resort, Verona, NY
Heavyweights

Ruslan Provodnikov vs. John Molina, Jr. — Showtime, 9 p.m.

Boxing After Dark, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
WBO World Super Featherweight Title

Rocky Martinez vs. Vasyl Lomachenko — HBO, 10 p.m.

College Baseball
NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
Super Regionals — Best of Three

Coral Cables Super Regional, Mark Light Field, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Game 2: Miami (FL) vs. Boston College — ESPNU, noon (Miami leads series 1-0)

Louisville Super Regional, Jim Patterson Stadium, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Game 1: Cal-Santa Barbara vs. Louisville — ESPN2, noon

Columbia Super Regional, Founders Park, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Game 1: Oklahoma State vs. South Carolina — ESPN2, 3 p.m.

Lubbock Super Regional, Dan Law Field, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Game 2: Texas Tech vs. East Carolina — ESPNU, 3 p.m. (East Carolina leads series 1-0)

Gainesville Super Regional, Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Game 1: Florida State vs. Florida — ESPN2, 6 p.m.

Starkville Super Regional, Dudy Noble Field, University of Mississippi State, Starkville, MS
Game 2: Mississippi State vs. Arizona — ESPNU, 6 p.m. (Arizona leads series 1-0)

Baton Rouge Super Regional, Alex Box Stadium, Louisville State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Game 1: Coastal Carolina vs. LSU — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

College Station Super Regional, Blue Bell Park, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Game 2: Texas A&M vs. TCU — ESPN, 9 p.m. (TCU leads series 1-0)

College Track & Field
NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Hayward Field, OR
Women’s Finals — ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

Copa América Centenario
Group A, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA
United States vs. Paraguay — Univision/Univision Deportes, 6:30 p.m./FS1, 7 p.m.

Group A, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX
Colombia vs. Costa Rica — FS2/Univision/Univision Deportes, 9 p.m.

Univision Deportes Fútbol Club: Copa América Centenario — Univision Deportes, 5 p.m.
Fútbol Central: Copa América Centenario — Univision/Univision Deportes, 6 p.m.
Copa América Centenario Pregame — FS1, 6 p.m.
Copa América Centenario Postgame — FS1, 9 p.m.
República Deportiva: Copa América Centenario — Univision/Univision Deportes, 11:30 p.m.

EURO 2016
Group A, Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens Agglo, France
Albania vs. Switzerland — ESPN, 8:30 a.m.

Group B, Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Wales vs. Slovakia — ESPN, 11:30 a.m.

Group B, Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France
England vs. Russia — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

Formula 1
Grand Prix du Canada, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Qualifying — Univision Deportes, 12:55 p.m./NBCSN, 1 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Lyoness Open, Diamond Country Club (Diamond Course), Atzenbrugg, Austria

3rd Round — Golf Channel, 6 a.m.

PGA Tour
St. Jude Classic, TPC Southwind, Memphis,  TN

3rd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.
3rd Round — CBS, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, noon
Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Women’s PGA Championship, Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, WA

3rd Round — NBC, 2 p.m.
3rd Round — Golf Channel, 5 p.m.

PGA Tour Champions
Senior Players Championship, Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon Course), Flourtown, PA

3rd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Rust-Oleum Championship, Ivanhoe Club, Ivanhoe, IL

3rd Round — Golf Channel, 7 p.m. (same day coverage)

Horse Racing
Belmont Stakes, Belmont Park, Elmont, NY
Belmont Stakes Prep — NBCSN, 3 p.m.
Belmont Stakes — NBC, 4:30 p.m.

IndyCar
Firestone 600, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Race — NBCSN, 8:30 p.m.

IndyCar Chronicles: 100th Running of Indy 500 — NBCSN, 7:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Baltimore at Toronto — MASN2/Sportsnet, 1 p.m.
Boston at Minneosta — NESN/Fox Sports North, 2 p.m.
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox — Fox Sports Kansas City/WGN, 2 p.m.
Houston at Tampa Bay — Root Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Sun, 4 p.m.
Deetroit at New York Yankees — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
Cleveland at Anaheim — FS1, 10 p.m.
Texas at Seattle — Fox Sports Southwest/Root Sports Northwest, 10 p.m.

National League
Philadelphia at Washington — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN, noon
Chicago Cubs at Atlanta — MLB Network/Comcast SportsNet Chicago/Fox Sports South, 4 p.m.
New York Mets at Milwaukee — MLB Network/WPIX/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 4 p.m.
San Diego at Colorado — Fox Sports San Diego/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 4 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Francisco — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh — Fox, 7:15 p.m.
Miami at Arizona — Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports Arizona, 10 p.m.

Interleague
Oakland at Cincinnati — Comcast SportsNet California/Fox Sports Ohio, 4 p.m.

Play Ball — MLB Network, 10 a.m.
MLB Network Breakdown — MLB Network, 10:30 a.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 3 p.m.
Fox Saturday Baseball Pregame — Fox, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 7 p.m.
MLB on FS1 Pregame — FS1, 9:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
FireKeepers Casino 400, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI

Practice — FS1, 9 a.m.
Final Practice — FS1, noon

Xfinity Series
Menard’s 250, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI

Qualifying — FS1, 10 a.m.
Race — FS1, 1:30 p.m.

NASCAR Race Hub: Weekend Edition — FS1, 11:30 a.m.
NASCAR RaceDay: Xfinify Series — FS1, 1 p.m.

NBA
NBA Inside Stuff — NBA TV, 6:30 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 7 p.m.
NBA TV Finals Film Room: Game 4 — NBA TV, 9 p.m.

NHL
NHL Tonigiht: 2016 Stanley Cup Final Edition — NHL Network, 6 p.m.

Soccer
NASL
Minnesota United vs. Miami FC — beIN Sports, 8 p.m.

ESPN FC — ESPN2, midnight
The Express — beIN Sports, midnight

Sports Talk
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:15 a.m.
SC Featured — ESPNews, 10 a.m.
Morning Drice — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
SC Featured — ESPN2, 11 a.m.
Chinese Football-Building a Dynasty — BBC World News, 11:30 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:15 p.m.
O.J.: Made in America: Part One — ABC, 9 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 11 p.m.

Tennis
Center Court: Mercedes Cup (ATP)/Ricoh Open (ATP/WTA) — Tennis Channel, 5 a.m.

Sunday, June 12

Australian Rules Football
Greater Western Sydney Giants vs. Sydney Swans — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 a.m.
Melbourne Demons vs. Collingwood Magpies — FS1, 1 a.m. (Monday)

College Baseball
NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
Super Regionals — Best of Three

Coral Cables Super Regional, Mark Light Field, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Game 3: Boston College vs. Miami — ESPNU, noon (series tied 1-1)

Louisville Super Regional, Jim Patterson Stadium, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Game 2: Louisville vs. Cal-Santa Barbara — ESPN2, noon (Cal-Santa Barbara leads series 1-0)

Columbia Super Regional, Founders Park, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Game 2: South Carolina vs. Oklahoma State — ESPN2, 3 p.m. (Oklahoma State leads series 1-0)

Lubbock Super Regional, Dan Law Field, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Game 3: East Carolina vs. Texas Tech — ESPNU, 3 p.m. (series tied 1-1)

Gainesville Super Regional, Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Game 2: Florida vs. Florida State — ESPN2, 6 p.m. (series tied 1-1)

Baton Rouge Super Regional, Alex Box Stadium, Louisville State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Game 2: LSU vs. Coastal Carolina — ESPNU, 9 p.m. (Coastal Carolina leads series 1-0)

College Station Super Regional, Blue Bell Park, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Game 3: Texas A&M vs. TCU — ESPN2, 9 p.m. (series tied 1-1)

Copa América Centenario
Group B, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ
Ecuador vs. Haiti — Univision/Univision Deportes, 6 p.m./FS2, 6:30 p.m.

Group B, Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA
Brazil vs. Peru — FS1/Univision/Univision Deportes, 8:30 p.m.

Univision Deportes Fútbol Central: Copa América Centenario — Univision Deportes, 4 p,m.
Fútbol Central: Copa América Centenario — Univision/Univision Deportes, 5 p.m.
Copa América Centenario Pregame — FS2, 6 p.m.
Copa América Centenario Pregame — FS1, 8 p.m.
Contacto Deportivo: Copa América Centenario — Univision Deportes, 11 p.m.
República Deportiva: Copa América Centenario — Univision/Univision Deportes, midnight

Drag Racing
NHRA Summernationals, Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
Finals — FS1, 4:30 p.m.

EURO 2016
Group D, Parc des Princes, Paris
Turkey vs. Croatia — ESPN, 8:30 a.m.

Group C, Stade de Nice, Nice, France
Poland vs. Northern Ireland — ESPN, 11:30 a.m.

Group C, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille Métropole, France
Germany vs. Ukraine — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA Euro Tonight — ESPNews, 5 p.m.

Formula 1
Grand Prix du Canada, Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Race — NBC/UniMás, 2 p.m.

F1 Countdown — NBC, 1 p.m.
Fórmula 1 Previa — UniMás, 1:30 p.m.
F1 Extra — NBC, 4 p.m.

Golf
European Tour
Lyoness Open, Diamond Country Club (Diamond Course), Atzenbrugg, Austria

Final Round — Golf Channel, 5:30 a.m.

PGA Tour
St. Jude Classic, TPC Southwind, Memphis, TN

Final Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m.
Final Round — CBS, 3 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, noon
Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 2:30 p.m.

PGA Tour Champions
Senior Players Championship, Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon Course), Flourtown, PA

Final Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Women’s PGA Championship, Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, WA

Final Round — NBC, 4;30 p.m.
Final Round — Golf Channel, 6 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Rust-Oleum Championship, Ivanhoe Club, Ivanhoe, IL

Final Round — Golf Channel, 9:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

IndyCar
Firestone 600, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX
Race — NBCSN, 2 p.m. (rescheduled from Saturday)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Ultimate Insider: Tate/McCrory/Vegas — FS1, 7:30 p.m.

MLB
American League
Baltimore at Toronto — MASN/Sportsnet, 1 p.m.
Houston at Tampa Bay — Root Sports Southwest/Fox Sports Sun, 1 p.m.
Boston at Minnesota — NESN/Fox Sports North, 2 p.m.
Detroit at New York Yankees — MLB Network/Fox Sports Detroit/YES, 2 p.m.
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox — MLB Network/Fox Sports Kansas City/Comcast SportsNet Chicago, 2 p.m.
Cleveland at Anaheim — STO/Fox Sports West, 3:30 p.m.
Texas at Seattle — Fox Sports Southwest/Root Sports Northwest, 4 p.m.

National League
Chicago Cubs at Atlanta — WGN/Fox Sports South, 1:30 p.m.
New York Mets at Milwaukee — WPIX/Fox Sports Wisconsin, 2 p.m.
Miami at Arizona — Fox Sports Florida/Fox Sports Arizona, 4 p.m.
Philadelphia at Washington — Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/MASN2, 4 p.m.
San Diego at Colorado — Fox Sports San Diego/Root Sports Rocky Mountain, 4 p.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh — ESPN, 5 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Francisco — ESPN, 8:30 p.m.

Interleague
Oakland at Cincinnati — Comcast SportsNet California/Fox Sports Ohio, 1 p.m.

Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m.
Plays of the Week — MLB Network, noon
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 1 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 5 p.m.
Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
FireKeepers Casino 400, Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, MI

Race — FS1, 1 p.m.

NASCAR RaceDay: Michigan — FS1, 11:30 a.m.

NBA
NBA GameTime: NBA Finals Media Availability — NBA TV, 3 p.m.
NBA GameTime — NBA TV, 8 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Final
Game 6: Pittsburgh Penguins at San Jose Sharks — CBC/NBC/TVA Sports, 8 p.m. (Pittsburgh leads series 3-2)

NHL Live — NHL Network, 5 p.m.
NHL Live from SAP Center, San Jose, CA — NBCSN, 6 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Final Pregame — NHL Network, 6 p.m.
NHL Overtime — NBCSN, 11 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2016 Stanley Cup Final Postgame — NHL Network, 11 p.m.

Soccer
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, midnight
ESPN FC — ESPN2, 12: 30 a.m. (Monday)

Sports Talk
Outside the Lines — ESPNews, 9 a.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 9:15 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPNews, 9:30 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 10 a.m.
SportsCenter: Top Ten — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Sport Today — BBC World News, 2:15 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 11:30 p.m.

Tennis
Center Court: Mercedes Cup (ATP)/Ricoh Open (ATP/WTA) — Tennis Channel, 5 a.m.

WNBA
Seattle Storm at Indiana Fever — NBA TV, 6 p.m.

Wrestling
2016 Men’s Freestyle Wrestling World Cup, The Forum, Inglewood, CA
USA vs. Iran: Qualifying Round — NBCSN, 3 p.m.
USA vs. Iran: Medal-Round Match — NBCSN, midnight (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.

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