All Times Eastern

Australian Rules Football
North Melbourne Kangaroos vs. Adelaide Crows — Fox Sports 2, 11:30 p.m.
Essendon Bombers vs. Gold Coast Suns — Fox Soccer Plus, midnight

Basketball
Exhibition, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
United States vs. Puerto Rico — ESPN2, 7 p.m.

Boxing
Friday Night Fights, Pechanga Resort and Casino, Temecula, CA
Junior Middleweights
Daniel Dawson vs. Austin Trout — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

Golden Boy Live, The Allan Witt Sports Center, Fairfield, CA
Junior Featherweights
Manuel Avila vs. Sergio Frias — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

College Football
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation — Big Ten Network, 7 p.m.
2014 LSU Football Preview — SEC Network, 10 p.m.
2014 Arkansas Football Preview — SEC Network, 10:30 p.m.

Cycling
U.S. Pro Challenge, Colorado
Stage 5: Woodland Park to Breckenridge — NBCSN, 3:30 p.m.

ASO Arctic Race of Norway Highlights — Universal Sports, 9 p.m.
U.S. Pro Cycling Challenge Highlights: Colorado 5 — Universal Sports, 10 p.m.

Formula 1
Belgian Grand Prix, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium
Practice — NBCSN, 8 a.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour
Czech Masters, Albatross Golf Resort, Vysoky Ujezd, Prague, Czech Republic
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 5 a.m. & 9 a.m.

LPGA Tour
Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, London Hunt and Country Club, London, Ontario, Canada
2nd Round — Golf Channel, noon

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

PGA Tour
FedExCup Playoffs
The Barclays, Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, NJ
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 2 p.m.

Web.com Tour
Portland Open, Witch Hollow at Pumpkin Ridge, Portland, OR
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.

Gymnastics
P&G Championships, CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Women’s All-Around — NBCSN, 7 p.m. (same day coverage)
Men’s All-Around — NBCSN, 11:30 p.m. (same day coverage)

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs. Dos Anjos, Tulsa, OK
Weigh-In — Fox Sports 2, 5 p.m.

Titan FC 29, The Crown Coliseum, Fayetteville, NC
Ricci vs. Sotiropoulos — CBS Sports Network, 10 p.m.

MLB
National League
Atlanta at Cincinnati or San Francisco at Washington — MLB Network, 7 p.m.

Interleague
Baltimore at Chicago Cubs — WGN America, 2:20 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 10 p.m.
MLB Whiparound — Fox Sports 1, 1 a.m. (Saturday)
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Saturday)

MLS
FC Dallas vs. Real Salt Lake — NBCSN, 9 p.m.

NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series
Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN
Practice 1 — Fox Sports 1, 11 a.m.
Practice 2 — Fox Sports 1, 1:30 p.m.
Qualifying — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.

NASCAR Live: Bristol — Fox Sports 1, 1 p.m.
NASCAR Live: Bristol — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

Nationwide Series
Food City 300, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, TN
Qualifying — Fox Sports 1, 3:30 p.m.
Race — ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

NASCAR Countdown — ESPN, 7 p.m.

NFL Preseason
Oakland at Green Bay — CBS, 8 p.m.
Chicago at Seattle — NFL Network, 11 p.m. (joined in progress)

NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL GameDay Live (series premiere) — NFL Network, 8 p.m.

Olympics
2014 Youth Summer Olympic Games, Nanjing, Communist China
Swimming & Trampoline — NBCSN, 1:30 p.m. (same day coverage)
Day 7 — Universal Sports, 5 p.m. (same day coverage)

Softball
National Pro Fastball Championship, Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, AL
Championship Series
Game 1 — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Sports Talk
Boomer & Carton — CBS Sports Network, 6 a.m.
NFL AM — NFL Network, 6 a.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV), 9 a.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
The Mike Francesa Show — Fox Sports 2, 1 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m./ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.
George Hincapie: The Loyal Lieutenant — Universal Sports, 8 p.m.
SEC Now — SEC Network, 9 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 11 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, midnight

Tennis
WTA Tour
U.S. Open Series: Connecticut Open, Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, New Haven, CT
1st Semifinal — ESPN2, 1 p.m.
2nd Semifinal — ESPNews, 7 p.m.

ATP Tour
U.S. Open Series: Winston-Salem Open, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
1st Semifinal — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
2nd Semifinal — Tennis Channel, 9 p.m. (same day coverage)

U.S. Open, Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing, New York, NY
Qualifying Tournament — CBS Sports Network, 5 p.m.

WNBA Playoffs
Eastern Conference Semifinal
Game 1: Chicago Sky at Atlanta Dream — NBA TV, 7:30 p.m.

Western Conference Semifinal
Game 1: Los Angeles Sparks at Phoenix Mercury — NBA TV, 10 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 four Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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