Weekend Viewing Picks

by Ken Fang on January 27, 2012

Saturday, January 28

College Basketball Viewing Picks

College Football
2012 Senior Bowl, Mobile AL
North vs. South — NFL Network, 4 p.m.

College Hockey
Maine at BU — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.

FA Cup
Queens Park Rangers vs. Chelsea — Fox Socer Plus, 6:55 a.m.
Liverpool vs. Manchester United — Fox Soccer, 7:30 a.m.

4th Round
Leicester City vs. Swindon — Fox Soccer Plus, 9:55 a.m.
Derby County vs. Stoke City — Fox Soccer, 10 a.m.
Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Newcastle United — Fox Soccer, noon

Figure Skating
U.S. Figure Skating Championships, San Jose, CA
Ladies Short Program/Free Dance — WHDH/WJAR, 4 p.m.
Ladies Free Skate — WHDH/WJAR, 9 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 4 a.m.
PGA Tour: Farmers Insurance Open, 3rd Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m./WBZ/WPRI, 3 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC: Evans vs. Davis Prelims — Fuel, 5 p.m.
UFC: Evans vs. Davis — WFXT/WNAC, 8 p.m.

Motor Sports
24 Hours of Daytona — Speed, 2:30 p.m.

NBA
Sacramento at Utah — NBA TV, 9 p.m.

NHL
2012 NHL All-Star Skills Competition, Ottawa, Canada
Team Alfredsson vs. Team Chara — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.

2012 NHL All-Star Skills Competition Preview — NHL Network, 4 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2012 NHL All-Star Skills Competition Recap — NHL Network, 10 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine World Cup, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Women’s Downhill — Universal Sports, 11 a.m. (same day coverage)

FIS Alpine World Cup, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Men’s Downhill — Universal Sports, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Tennis
Australian Open, Women’s Final: Victoria Azarenka vs. Maria Sharapova — ESPN2, 3:30 a.m.
Australian Open, Men’s Doubles Final: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan vs. Leander Paes/Radek Stepanek — Tennis Channel, 5:30 a.m.

Entertainment
Giada at Home: Game Day Favorites — Food Network, 11:30 a.m.
French Food at Home: Cooking for One — Cooking Channel, noon
Ultimate Factories: Frito Lay — National Geographic Channel, 8 p.m.
The Fades — BBC America, 9 p.m.
Namath — HBO, 9 p.m.
48 Hours Mystery: A Fatal Attraction — WBZ/WPRI, 10 p.m.
Iron Chef America: Tailgate Showdown — Food Network, 10 p.m.
An Idiot Abroad: The Bucket List: Trans-Siberian Express — Discovery Science, 10 p.m.
The Graham Norton Show — BBC America, 10:15 p.m.
Would You Rather with Graham Norton? — BBC America, 11 p.m.

Sunday, January 29

College Basketball Viewing Picks

FA Cup
Sunderland vs. Middlesbrough — Fox Soccer Plus, 8:30 a.m.
Arsenal vs. Aston Villa — Fox Soccer, 11 a.m.

Figure Skating
U.S. Figure Skating Championships, San Jose, CA
Pairs Free Skate/Men’s Free Skate — WHDH/WJAR, 3 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship, Final Round — Golf Channel, 4 a.m.
PGA Tour: Farmers Insurance Open, Final Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m./WBZ/WPRI, 3 p.m.

Motor Sports
24 Hours of Daytona — Speed, 9 a.m.

NBA
Chicago at Miami — WCVB/WMUR/WLNE, 3:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Celtics — Comcast SportsNet, 6 p.m
San Antonio at Dallas — ESPN, 6:30 p.m.

NFL
2012 Pro Bowl, Honolulu, HI
AFC vs. NFC — WHDH/WJAR, 7 p.m.

NFL Total Access: 2012 NFL Pro Bowl Pregame — NFL Network, 4 p.m.

NHL
2012 NHL All-Star Game, Ottawa, Canada
Team Alfredsson vs. Team Chara — NBC Sports Network, 4 p.m.

NHL Tonight: 2012 NHL All-Star Game Preview — NHL Network, 1 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2012 NHL All-Star Game Edition — NHL Network, 7 p.m.

Olympics
CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Soccer Qualifying Tournament, Vancouver, Canada
Final
NBC Sports Network, 8 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine World Cup, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Men’s Super G — Universal Sports, 11 a.m. (same day coverage)

FIS Alpine World Cup, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Women’s Super Combined/Giant Slalom — Universal Sports, 2 p.m. (same day coverage)

Tennis
Australian Open, Mixed Doubles Final — Tennis Channel, 12:30 a.m.
Australian Open, Men’s Final: Rafael Nadal vs. Novak Djokovic — ESPN2, 3 a.m.

Track & Field
MSG U.S. Open — ESPN2, 7 p.m.

Entertainment
CBS News Sunday Morning — WBZ/WPRI, 9 a.m.
10 Dollar Dinners with Melissa: Big Buffalo, Ten Bills — Food Network, 9 a.m.
60 Minutes — WBZ/WPRI, 7 p.m.
Once Upon A Time — WCVB/WMUR/WLNE, 8 p.m.
18th Annual Screen Actor Guild Awards — TBS, 8 p.m.
Downton Abbey — WGBH, 9 p.m.
Luck (series premiere) — HBO, 9 p.m.
Shameless — Showtime, 9 p.m.
Drugs, Inc.: Pill Nation — National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m.
Snapped: Courtenay Savage — Oxygen, 9 p.m.
House of Lies — Showtime, 10 p.m.
Alaska State Troopers: Storm of the Century — National Geographic Channel, 10 p.m.
Californication — Showtime, 10:30 p.m.

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Friday’s Viewing Picks

by Ken Fang on January 27, 2012

College Basketball
Men’s
Iona at Fairfield — ESPNU, 7 p.m.
Boston University at Fairfield — ESPNU, 9 p.m.

College Hockey
UNH at BC — NESN, 7:30 p.m.
Colgate at Cornell — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
Yale at Harvard — NBC Sports Network, 7:30 p.m.
St. Cloud State at Minnesota — Big Ten Network, 8 p.m.
Wisconsin at North Dakota State — Fox College Sports Central, 8:30 p.m.

Golf
European PGA Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship, 2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 a.m.
PGA Tour: Farmers Insurance Open, 2nd Round — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Primetime: Diaz vs. Condit — FX, 11 p.m..

MLB
Clubhouse Confidential — MLB Network, 5:30 p.m.
Hot Stove Live — MLB Network, 6 p.m.

NBA
Indiana at Celtics — Comcast SportsNet, 7:30 p.m.
New York at Miami — ESPN, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Golden State — NBA TV, 10:30 p.m.

NHL
2012 NHL All-Star Media Day — NHL Network, 3 p.m.
NHL Tonight: 2012 NHL All-Star Media Day Recap — NHL Network, 6 p.m.

Olympics
CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Soccer Qualifying Tournament, Vancouver, Canada
Semifinal
United States vs. Costa Rica — Universal Sports, 8 p.m.

Skiing
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Kranskja Gora, Slovenia
Women’s Slalom — Universal Sports, 11 a.m. (same day coverage)

Sports Talk
The Dan Patrick Show — Audience Network (DirecTV)/Comcast SportsNet, 9 a.m.
Tim Brando Show — CBS Sports Network, 10 a.m.
The Box Score — Audience Network (DirecTV)/DanPatrick.com, noon
The Scott Van Pelt Show — ESPNews, 1 p.m.
Felger & Mazz — Comcast SportsNet, 2 p.m.
Numbers Never Lie — ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.
SportsNation — ESPN2, 5 p.m.
Pardon the Interruption — ESPN, 5:30 p.m.
NBC SportsTalk — NBC Sports Network, 6 p.m.
CNBC Sports Biz: Game On! — NBC Sports Network, 7 p.m.

Tennis
Australian Open, Men’s Semifinal: Novak Djokovic vs. Andy Murray — ESPN2, 3:30 p.m.

Australian Open Today — Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.

Entertainment
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Friends and Enemies — Cartoon Network, 8 p.m.
Alaska Wing Men: Grizzly 911 — National Geographic Channel, 8 p.m.
Primetime: What Would You Do? — WCVB/WMUR/WLNE, 9 p.m.
America’s Most Wanted — Lifetime (The Network That Hates Men), 9 p.m.
On Freddie Roach — HBO, 9:30 p.m.
Portlandia: Grover — Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.
20/20 — WCVB/WMUR/WLNE, 10 p.m.
Dateline NBC — WHDH/WJAR, 10 p.m.
Spartacus: Vengeance (season premiere) — Starz, 10 p.m.

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Thursday’s Viewing Picks

January 26, 2012

College Basketball Men’s Navy at Lehigh — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. NC State at North Carolina — ESPN, 7 p.m. Florida at Mississippi — ESPN2, 7 p.m. Nebraska at Iowa — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Western Kentucky at Florida Atlantic — Fox College Sports Pacific, 7 p.m. New Jersey Institute of Technology at North Dakota [...]

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The Mid-Week Linkage

January 25, 2012

I haven’t provided links on schedule so let me try to do it now. We begin with Michael Hiestand of USA Today who talks about NBCUniversal’s big plans to blanket Super Bowl XLVI next week. Wow. The secret organization Anonymous plans to attack ESPN.com over its support of SOPA and PIPA. In case anyone from [...]

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Wednesday’s Viewing Picks

January 25, 2012

Carling Cup 2nd Leg Liverpool vs. Manchester City — Fox Soccer, 2:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Penn State at Ohio State — Big Ten Network, 6:30 p.m. St. Bonaventure at URI — Comcast SportsNet New England, 7 p.m. Villanova at Louisville — ESPN, 7 p.m. West Virginia at St. John’s — ESPNU, 7 p.m. St. [...]

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Tuesday’s Viewing Picks

January 23, 2012

Carling Cup 2nd Leg Cardiff City vs. Crystal Palace — Fox Soccer Plus, 2:40 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Michigan at Purdue — ESPN, 7 p.m. Tennessee at Vanderbilt — ESPNU, 7 p.m. San Diego State at Wyoming — the mtn., 8:30 p.m. Kentucky at Georgia — ESPN, 9 p.m. Miami (FL) at Georgia Tech — [...]

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Monday’s Viewing Picks

January 23, 2012

College Basketball Men’s Syracuse at Cincinnati — ESPN, 7 p.m. North Carolina A&T at Coppin State — ESPNU, 7 p.m. Texas A&M at Kansas — ESPN, 9 p.m. Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Prairie View A&M — ESPNU, 9 p.m. Women’s North Carolina A&T at Coppin State — ESPNU, 4:30 p.m. Tennessee at Notre Dame — ESPN2, [...]

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Weekend Viewing Picks

January 20, 2012

Saturday, January 21 Boxing Maurice Byarm vs. Bryant Jennings — NBC Sports Network, 9 p.m. College Basketball Viewing Picks College Football East-West Shrine Game — NFL Network, 4 p.m. NFLPA Bowl — NBC Sports Network, 6 p.m. College Hockey Men’s BC at Maine — NESN, 4 p.m. Women’s Bemidji State at Minnesota — Big Ten [...]

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Friday’s Viewing Picks

January 20, 2012

College Basketball Men’s Wisconsin-Green Bay at Cleveland State — ESPNU, 8 p.m. Rider at Iona — ESPNU, 10 p.m. College Hockey PC at BU — NESN, 7:30 p.m. Air Force at Army — CBS Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Michigan at Notre Dame — NBC Sports Network, 7:30 p.m. Golf Champions Tour: Mitsubishi Electric Championship, 1st [...]

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Thursday’s Viewing Picks

January 19, 2012

College Basketball Men’s Lafayette at Holy Cross — CBS Sports Network, 7 p.m. Wake Forest at Duke — ESPN, 7 p.m. Vanderbilt at Alabama — ESPN2, 7 p.m. William & Mary at VCU — ESPNU, 8 p.m. IPFW at Oral Roberts — Fox College Sports Central, 8 p.m. Arizona at Utah — Fox College Sports [...]

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