All Times Eastern

Boxing
ESPN Boxing Special, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
IBF Middleweight Elimination Bout
Hassan N’Dam vs. Curtis Stevens — ESPN2, 9 p.m.

College Football
BTN Football & Beyond 2014 — Big Ten Network, noon
CFB Daily — ESPNU, 1 p.m.
College Football Live — ESPN, 2:30 p.m.
ESPNU Film Room — ESPNU, 6:30 p.m.
SEC Film Room — SEC Network, 10 p.m.

College Volleyball
Women’s
Missouri at Mississippi — SEC Network, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Illinois — Big Ten Network, 7:30 p.m.
TCU at Oklahoma — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m.
Iowa State at Texas — Longhorn Network, 8 p.m.
Georgia at Auburn — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
USC at Washington — Pac-12 Networks, 10:30 p.m.

Golf
Big Break Invitational, Reynolds Plantation, Great Waters Course, Lake Oconee, GA
Day 2: Modified Stableford Scoring System — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

LPGA Tour
Reignwood Pine Valley LPGA Classic, Pine Valley Golf Club, Beijing, Communist China
1st Round — Golf Channel, 11 p.m.

European Tour Weekly — Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m.
School of Golf: Chapter 30: Personal Pearls — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Tonight — Fox Sports 1, 8 p.m.
The Ultimate Fighter: Team Melendez vs. Team Pettis: Make a Big Strike — Fox Sports 1, 10 p.m.

MLB Postseason
National League Wild Card
San Francisco Giants at Pittsburgh Pirates — ESPN, 8 p.m.

The Rundown — MLB Network, 2 p.m.
MLB Now — MLB Network, 4 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN2, 5:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight: Wild Card Pregame — MLB Network, 6 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 7 p.m.
MLB Tonight: Wild Card Postgame — MLB Network, 11 p.m.

NASCAR
NASCAR America — NBCSN, 5 p.m.
NASCAR Race Hub — Fox Sports 1, 6 p.m.

NFL
NFL Insiders — ESPN, 3 p.m.
NFL Live — ESPN, 4 p.m.
NFL Fantasy Live — NFL Network, 5 p.m.
Around the NFL — NFL Network, 6 p.m.
NFL Replay: Game of the Week: Philadelphia at San Francisco — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Inside the NFL: 2014 Week 5 — NFL Network, 9 p.m.
NFL Turning Point: 2014 Week 4 — NBCSN, 10 p.m.
Sound FX: Cris Carter — NFL Network, 10:30 p.m.

NHL Preseason
Pittsburgh at Detroit — NHL Network, 7:30 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)/NBCSN, 9 a.m.
Highly Questionable — ESPN2, 1 p.m.
SVP & Russillo — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 1:30 p.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV), 3 p.m.
The Doug Gottlieb Show — CBS Sports Network, 3 p.m.
The Paul Finebaum Show — SEC Network, 3 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPN2, 4:45 p.m.
Olbermann — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
America’s Pregame — Fox Sports 1, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
ROME — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m.
ESPN FC — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
The Express Xtra — beIN Sports, 6 p.m.
BTN Live — Big Ten Network, 6 p.m.
Fox Sports Live — Fox Sports 1, 11 p.m.

Tennis
ATP/WTA Tour
Communist China Open, National Tennis Center, Beijing, Communist China
Men’s and Women’s 2nd Round — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.

Center Court: Communist China Open & Japan Open Tennis Championships — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m.

UEFA Champions League
Match Day 2, Group Stage
Group A, Estadio Vicente Calderón, Madrid, Spain
Atlético vs. Juventus — ESPN2, 2:30 p.m.

Group D, Arsenal Stadium, London, England
Arsenal vs. Galatasaray — Fox Sports 1, 2:30 p.m.

Group B, Stadium: St. Jakob-Park, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Basel vs. Liverpool — Fox Sports 2, 2:30 p.m.

Group B, Natsionalen Stadion Vasil Levski, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ludogorets vs. Real Madrid — Fox Sports Net, 2:30 p.m.

UEFA Champions League Pregame — Fox Sports 1/Fox Sports 2/Fox Sports Net/Fox Soccer Plus, 2 p.m.
Multimatch 90 — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:30 p.m.
UEFA Champions League Highlights — Fox Soccer Plus, 1:30 a.m./Fox Sports 2, 2 a.m. (Thursday)

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.