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Australian Rules Football
AFL — Men’s
Round 17
Collingwood Magpies vs. Essendon Bombers — FS2, 5:30 a.m. (Friday)

CFL
Week 5
Toronto Argonauts at Saskatchewan Roughriders — TSN1/TSN3/CFL+, 9 p.m.

College Football
College Football Today — SportsGrid, 8 a.m.

CONMEBOL Copa América
Knockout Round
Quarterfinal, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX
Announcers — Fox: John Strong/Stu Holden//Jenny Taft//Dr. Joe Machnik (rules)
Argentina vs. Ecuador — Fox/Univision/TUDN, 9 p.m.

Fútbol central — Univision/TUDN, 8 p.m.

Announcers: Rob Stone/Juan Pablo Angel/Alexi Lalas/Carli Lloyd
Copa Tonight — Fox, 8 p.m.

Announcers: Jimmy Conrad/Melissa Ortiz/Wes Morgan
Fox Soccer Now — Facebook/TikTok/X/YouTube, 8:40 p.m.
Fox Soccer Now — Facebook/TikTok/X/YouTube, 10:50 p.m.

Cycling
Tour de France
Stage 6: Mâcon to Dijon — Peacock, 7 a.m.
Stage 7: Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin (Individual Time Trial) — Peacock, 6:30 a.m. (Friday)

Golf
PGA Tour
John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, IL
1st Round
Announcers — Golf Channel: George Savaricas/John Cook/Jim Gallagher, Jr.//Billy Ray Brown//Colt Knost
Main Feed — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 7:45 a.m.
Featured Groups: Cameron Champ/Nico Echavarria/Stewart Cink & Sungjae Im/Jake Knapp/Luke List with Davis Riley/Denny McCarthy/Adam Svensson & Daniel Berger/Nick Dunlap/Chris Gotterup — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 8:15 a.m.
Marquee Groups: Zach Johnson/J.T. Poston/Jordan Spieth & Jason Day/Lucas Glover/Sepp Straka — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 8:15 a.m.
Featured Group 1: Daniel Berger/Nick Dunlap/Chris Gotterup — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 4 p.m.
Featured Group 2: Jason Day/Lucas Glover/Sepp Straka — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 4 p.m.
Featured Hole: 14 — ESPN+/PGA Tour Live, 4 p.m.
Main Feed — Golf Channel/Peacock, 4 p.m.

Golf Central Pregame — Golf Channel, 3 p.m.

DP World Tour
BMW International Open, Golfclub München Eichenried, Munich, Germany
2nd Round — Golf Channel, 6:30 a.m. (Friday)

The Smylie Kaufman Show — SportsGrid, 7 a.m.
Golf Central — Golf Channel, 7 p.m.

Gluttony
Major League Eating
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, Coney Island, NY
Announcers: Jeremy Schaap/Rich Shea//Tiffany Greene

Women’s Competition — ESPN3, 10:45 a.m.
Men’s Competition — ESPN2, noon

Nathan’s Hot Dog In-Contest LIVE — SportsGrid, noon

Minor League Baseball
Texas League
Amarillo Sod Poodles at Midland RockHounds — Stadium, 8 p.m.

On Deck — Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Unleashed: Comebacks — ESPNews, 6 p.m.
UFC Unleashed: British Invasion — ESPNews, 7 p.m.
UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 (03/18/2023) — ESPNews, 8 p.m.

MLB
American League
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland — NBC Sports Chicago/Bally Sports Great Lakes, 1 p.m.
Houston at Toronto — MLB Network (backup)/Space City Home Network/Sportsnet, 1 p.m.
Detroit at Minnesota — Bally Sports Detroit/Bally Sports North, 2 p.m.
Anaheim at Oakland — MLB Network (backup)/Bally Sports West/NBC Sports California, 4 p.m.
Baltimore at Seattle — MASN2/Root Sports, 4 p.m./MLB Network (main), 5:30 p.m. (joined in progress)
Tampa Bay at Kansas City — Bally Sports Sun/Bally Sports Kansas City, 8 p.m.

National League
New York Mets at Washington — MLB Network (main)/SNY/MASN, 11 a.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh — Bally Sports Midwest/SportsNet Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs — MLB Network (main)/NBC Sports Philadelphia/Marquee Sports Network, 2:20 p.m.
San Francisco at Atlanta — MLB Network (main)/NBC Sports Bay Area/Bally Sports South, 7:20 p.m.
Milwaukee at Colorado — MLB Network (backup)/Bally Sports Wisconsin/Rockies.TV, 8 p.m.
Arizona at Los Angeles Dodgers — Dbacks.TV/Spectrum SportsNet LA, 9 p.m./MLB Network (main), 10:30 p.m. (joined in progress)

Interleague
Boston at Miami — NESN/Bally Sports Florida, 1 p.m.
Cincinnati at New York Yankees — Bally Sports Ohio/YES, 1 p.m.
San Diego at Texas — Padres.TV/Bally Sports Southwest, 2:30 p.m.

Blue Jays Central — Sportsnet, 12:30 p.m.
Baltimore Orioles vs. Seattle Mariners In-Game LIVE Prime Time — SportsGrid, 4 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 1 a.m. (Friday)

MLS
Matchday 24
MLS Season Pass — Subscription Required
Announcers — English: Mark Followill/Warren Barton//Spanish: Raúl Guzmán/Carlos Ruiz
FC Dallas vs. Portland Timbers — Apple TV+, 8:30 p.m.

Announcers — English: Mark Rogondino/Heath Pearce//Spanish: Adrian García Márquez/Francisco Pinto
Colorado Rapids vs. Sporting Kansas City — Apple TV+, 9:30 p.m.

El Tráfico, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
Announcers — English: Jake Zivin/Taylor Twellman//Spanish: Sammy Sadovnik/Diego Valeri
LA Galaxy vs. LAFC — Apple TV+, 10:30 p.m.

Announcers: Kaylyn Kyle/Sacha Kljestan/Bradley Wright-Phillips
MLS Countdown — Apple TV+, 10 p.m.

Announcers: Antonella Gonzalez/Carlos Pavón/Giovanni Savarese
MLS La Previa — Apple TV+, 10 p.m.

Announcers: Kevin Egan/Sacha Kljestan/Bradley Wright-Phillips
MLS Wrap-Up — Apple TV+, 1 a.m. (Friday)

Announcers: Antonella Gonzalez/Carlos Pavón/Giovanni Savarese
MLS El Resumen — Apple TV+, 1 a.m. (Friday)

NFL
NFL Live — ESPN, 5 p.m.

Olympics
Countdown to Paris: Brazil — NLSE, 7 p.m.

Soccer
ESPN FC — ESPN+, 5 p.m.
Línea de cuatro — TUDN, 11 p.m.

Sports News & Talk
SportsCenter — ESPN, 7 a.m.
The Carton Show — FS1, 7 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN, 8 a.m.
Get Up — ESPN2, 8 a.m.
Sports News Highlights — NLSE, 8 a.m.
The Early Line Live — SportsGrid, 8 a.m.
Morning Buzz — CBS Sports HQ, 9 a.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 9 a.m.
Invincible: Inbee Park — NLSE, 10 a.m.
The Ringer: East Coast Bias — FanDuel TV, 11 a.m.
NewsWire Live — SportsGrid, 11 a.m.
Invincible: Team USA Women’s Basketball — NLSE, noon
Midday Rundown — CBS Sports HQ, noon
The Pat McAfee Show — ESPN, noon
Live on the Line — Stadium, noon
Invincible: Lionel Messi — NLSE, 1 p.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 1 p.m.
Lombardi Line — DraftKings Network, 2 p.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 2 p.m.
Sports News Highlights — NLSE, 2 p.m.
Game ON — Women’s Sports Network, 2:30 p.m.
The Immortals: Olympic Standouts — NLSE, 3 p.m.
Trending Now — CBS Sports HQ, 3 p.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
The Immortals: Olympic Champs — NLSE, 3:30 p.m.
The Short List — NLSE, 4 p.m.
You Better You Bet — Stadium, 4 p.m.
SportsLine Picks & Previews — CBS Sports HQ, 6 p.m.
All the Smoke — DraftKings Network, 6 p.m.
SportsCenter — ESPN2, 6 p.m.
SC Featured: The Speech — ESPN2, 6 p.m.
Sports News Highlights — NLSE, 6 p.m.
Game Time Decisions LIVE — SportsGrid, 6 p.m.
The Rally — Stadium, 6 p.m.
Primetime Scoreboard — CBS Sports HQ, 7 p.m.
Oddball — DraftKings Network, 7:30 p.m.
ESPN Films: Fab Five — ESPNU, 9 p.m.
ESPN Films — ESPN, 10 p.m.
30 for 30: The Good, The Bad, The Hungry — ESPN2, 10 p.m.
SportsRage Late Night LIVE — SportsGrid, 10 p.m.
Contacto deportivo — TUDN, 10 p.m.
Scoreboard Final — CBS Sports HQ, 11 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 11 p.m.
Sports News Highlights — NLSE, 11 p.m.
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, midnight
Contacto deportivo — Univision/TUDN, midnight
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN, 1 a.m. (Friday)
Cooligans — DraftKings Network, 2 a.m. (Friday)
SportsCenter at Night — ESPN2, 2 a.m. (Friday)
TMZ Sports — FS1, 3:30 a.m. (Friday)
Unsportsmanlike with Evan, Carty and Michelle — ESPN2/ESPNews, 6 a.m. (Friday)
Maggie and Perloff — YouTube, 6 a.m. (Friday)

Tennis
ATP Tour/WTA Tour
The Championships, Wimbledon 2024, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, England, United Kingdom
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Second Round: No. 1 Court — ESPN3, 8 a.m.
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Second Round: Centre Court — ESPN3, 8:30 a.m.
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Third Round: Main Feed — ESPN/ESPN+, 6 a.m. (Friday)

Wimbledon Second Serve — ESPN, 4 p.m.
2024 Wimbledon Highlight Show — ESPN+, 5 p.m.

Wimbledon Tennis 2024 In-Match LIVE — SportsGrid, 1 p.m.

USL Championship
Matchday 19
Colorado Springs Switchbacks vs. FC Tulsa — CBS Sports Network, 9 p.m.

WNBA
Connecticut Sun at Minnesota Lynx — Amazon Prime Video/NBC Sports Boston/Bally Sports North, 8 p.m.
Washington Mystics at Las Vegas Aces — Amazon Prime Video/Monumental Sports Network/Silver State Sports & Entertainment Network, 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.