The funny thing is that when cable started becoming nationwide back in the 70s this is exactly was people were being promised: stuff way too niche for the Big Three. I remember predictions you’d see stuff like chess on cable channels.
Yeah, sure.
Lets face it: The only way an average guy is going to have a woman that pretty staring at him that intensely is if you were both in a plane crash in the Andes last week and today she saw you as Meat.
Michigan-Michigan State football from 1972? That’s probably what most people think conference-specific sports networks air when they’re not airing live football or basketball.
The SEC Network schedule for Mother’s Day consists pretty much entirely of SEC baseball, the Auburn and Alabama spring football games, and an SEC-based sports news program (something like an SEC-specific version of ESPN’s SportsCenter).
Then there’s this:
Mi tío es enfermo, pero la carretera es verde!
We tried to play it in 6th grade. Class size was big enough, but the girls didn’t want to play.
ESPN has run tournaments for Magic: the Gathering (a fantasy-themed collectible card game). Admittedly, at least when I was aware of such things, it was on ESPN2, in the wee hours of the morning, but still…
Am I going to get flamed for linking to this?
I like watching women’s lacrosse. The rules make the strategy different than men’s lacrosse. A close game between skilled teams can be really good.
I also like watching field hockey, AFL, archery, squash, gymnastics, high diving, table tennis and badminton. I am bored as shit of the same old, lame, big 3 American sports.
Luckily YouTube and ESPN online give me a source for most of those (not AFL though).
I am fine with them showing women’s lacrosse. Women’s Softball can be quite competitive and fun to watch, so why not lacrosse?
What irks is a sports network showing a Texas Hold 'em tournament. They are televising POKER, ferchrissakes!!! If you can do it while seated and smoking, it is not a sport. Hell, it’s not even an activity.
I played in college (5th in the nation baby!) and honestly miss it.
That nonwithstanding, their is now MLQ(Major League Quidditch) in a handful of cities across the nation, it’s getting crazy popular in colleges, hand to god in the next 5 years we WILL see it on some kind of broadcast, even if it’s on ESPN3.
Anyone up for Drone Racing League on ESPN?
I always thought the rules of Quidditch (as given in the books, at least) were fundamentally flawed. Catching the snitch is worth so many points (and ends the game) that the other parts of the game, and almost all the players, are often made completely irrelevant. On the other hand, if your team is behind by so much that even catching the snitch won’t win the game, what are you supposed to do? Now, there could be an interesting situation where the lead changes between just over, and then under, and then over 150 points, and the seekers are alternately trying to catch the snitch (when it would win the game) or not (when it wouldn’t). But even that doesn’t quite work, because each goal is worth 10 points, so the lead can’t vacillate over and under 150 without being 150 and setting the stage for a tie. For a world where trains leave from fractional-number station platforms, having everything be a multiple of 10 seems like a bit of a miss from Rowling.
TL,DR: Great game if you’re writing a story setting up one person to be the hero, kinda pointless if you’re not.