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MourningView posted:At one point they were showing like 70,000 hours of poker in prime time. Gigantic blocks of programming devoted to math dorks who got beat up all the time in high school wearing sunglasses and trying to look cool. Remember when ESPN Classic went from showing things like "top 25 Tyson knockouts!" and "the 1982 Pitt-Penn State game" to ESPNPOKER literally overnight?
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Sash! posted:Remember when ESPN Classic went from showing things like "top 25 Tyson knockouts!" and "the 1982 Pitt-Penn State game" to ESPNPOKER literally overnight? Extreme Sports NASCAR Poker UFC I remember all four of those being talked about as having the ability to overtake the NFL in popularity or at least being talked about as replacing one of the "Big 4". ...and then the bubble would burst and it was onto the next "Big thing".
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I think its NBC sports network that has antique car auctions on sunday mornings. Caught it last week and it was a glorious 5 minutes before I got bored
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FuzzySkinner posted:Extreme Sports UFC sure did obliterate boxing though. Although boxing might not have needed the help. One time I was at the laundromat and one of the TVs was on a car auction. There were these four positively ancient black guys just going mental over it. Never seen anything quite like it before. Normally I go on monday or thursday and end up watch wrestling with the Hispanic guys in their Tapout shirts. Sash! fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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the culminator posted:I think its NBC sports network that has antique car auctions on sunday mornings. Caught it last week and it was a glorious 5 minutes before I got bored Mecum and Barrett-Jackson can be kind of interesting if you have some remote knowledge of the cars they're talking about. But it can, yes, be kind of boring to watch as well.
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NBCSN has a good deal with hockey and Premier League. They could air literal grass growing in the rest of their timeslots as long as those two sports keep bringing in viewers.
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Sash! posted:UFC sure did obliterate boxing though. Although boxing might not have needed the help. OrangeKing posted:Chess, on occasion when I was in college (which was cool by me, being a chess guy), but I suppose there's at least some tradition of that getting sports coverage dating back to the Fischer days.
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Hell, Bobby Fischer was such a big deal he got a movie made about him. I can't remember the last time chess got media attention, other than that one time a supercomputer beat that one guy whose name escapes me at the moment.
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Those Magic broadcasts owned. A lot. e: ^^^ Garry Kasparov, presumably
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Really what I was saying is that Jai Alai needs to make a comeback.
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Crazy Ted posted:Really what I was saying is that Jai Alai needs to make a comeback. Isn't the entire game rigged for gambling purposes?
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Oh probably. I grew up in Miami and those places were just excuses to gamble legally.
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Jay Carney posted:Isn't the entire game rigged for gambling purposes? Isn't that basically every sport ever? 
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FlamingLiberal posted:Oh probably. I grew up in Miami and those places were just excuses to gamble legally. Yeah I've spent a fair amount of time in Miami and wanted to go gamble on Jai Alai once and my buddy told me I wouldn't win and there was some kind of "system" if you knew the game that made it entirely rigged. I played dice with strangers in a bar instead.
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Benne posted:Hell, Bobby Fischer was such a big deal he got a movie made about him. I can't remember the last time chess got media attention, other than that one time a supercomputer beat that one guy whose name escapes me at the moment. "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was not actually about Bobby Fischer. Also, Bobby Fischer was a crazy rear end in a top hat IRL which is sad.
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zakharov posted:"Searching for Bobby Fischer" was not actually about Bobby Fischer. Also, Bobby Fischer was a crazy rear end in a top hat IRL which is sad.
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Like running for office against Putin.
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zakharov posted:"Searching for Bobby Fischer" was not actually about Bobby Fischer. Also, Bobby Fischer was a crazy rear end in a top hat IRL which is sad. Crazy Ted posted:Crazy is putting it lightly. However, it seems as though in order to live life as a chess Grandmaster you have to eventually end up going nuts or developing very odd behaviors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov#Politics hmm
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zakharov posted:"Searching for Bobby Fischer" was not actually about Bobby Fischer. Also, Bobby Fischer was a crazy rear end in a top hat IRL which is sad. However, there's a good HBO documentary about him called Bobby Fisher Versus the World. At least I think that's what it's called. If you don't know anything about Bobby Fisher, check it out.
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Chess requires a ridiculous attention to detail if you want to be any good at it. It's not surprising that most of the top players are autistic weirdos.
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I think it was Bobby Fischer Goes To War that was a good book about him? Not a full biography, I think, but a really good look at the international interest in the Spassky-Fischer matches. Also, there's Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games, which is usually called one of the best chess books ever written, but I'm not sure how interesting it'd be to someone who doesn't have any chess experience.
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Alain Post posted:I think it was Bobby Fischer Goes To War that was a good book about him? Not a full biography, I think, but a really good look at the international interest in the Spassky-Fischer matches. It's a pretty solid read. There are several Fischer movies, some of which are okay, some of which are bad, and one of which features him talking to the ghost of his dead father and goes on for like an hour too long. There are a lot fewer crazy grandmasters these days, which may have a lot to do with the fact that thanks to computers, the best players now accomplish more in a few hours of study than players in previous generations could do in sessions twice as long. Not zero crazy grandmasters, mind you, but less.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Like running for office against Putin. Garry Kasparov is a Russian national hero. It would be like if Derek Jeter announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Crazy Ted posted:In the 50's and 60's, chess masters and Jai Alai players would occasionally be treated like a big deal. I loved the Jai Alai plot in Mad Men. So deliciously off the wall. Never seemed like a good spectator sport to me, though. Like trying to watch people play a faster, bigger, more lethaler squash.
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Sash! posted:Never seemed like a good spectator sport to me, though. Like trying to watch people play a faster, bigger, more lethaler squash. Isn't there some ridiculously big gambling that goes on with Jai Alai? I swear I once read about how it's one of the most heavily bet upon sports in the world. That's one really simple way to make you super interested in something.
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Fun fact: Ariaga, Bariaga, Ariaga II, Aruglia, and Pizozza were jai alai players
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Grittybeard posted:Isn't there some ridiculously big gambling that goes on with Jai Alai? I swear I once read about how it's one of the most heavily bet upon sports in the world. Yeah, one of my friends went all the time when she was in Miami. Just seems like it's hard to see!
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OrangeKing posted:It's a pretty solid read. There are several Fischer movies, some of which are okay, some of which are bad, and one of which features him talking to the ghost of his dead father and goes on for like an hour too long. Theres a chess grandmaster that streams on Twitch.tv. It's really cool to watch him destroy multiple people at once and play games in less than a few minutes in some kind of weird super fast chess league while explaining his reasoning. He also posts stuff on youtube though he's been doing less streaming of late. I think his first name is Jerry 
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Adam Schefter just tweeted the list of NFL games CBS and Fox are protecting from being selected for Sunday Night games. Kinda neat
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I'm just gonna come out and say it. I enjoy Matt Millen as a commentator. 
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://deadspin.com/comcast-decides-world-series-is-perfect-time-for-emerge-1649660909 I love how the World Series is listed last, after Wrestlemania.
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AsInHowe posted:I love how the World Series is listed last, after Wrestlemania.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Trivia: Did you know that EAS Tests are not allowed to happen during live "Championship" sporting events? Sorry yer house flipped through 6 counties, but didja see Peyton get rolled by Seattle? Oh wait you probably didn't... it was pretty cool, you should have been there.
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Robnoxious posted:This is interesting but alarming. The terrorists can win if they plan their dastardly deeds around championship events. Are tornado warnings also off limits? Test=/=Activation. If we were on the verge of a Nuclear War during the Super Bowl (in which case I would think people would be a little on edge in terms of playing a game), then yeah, it would be activated regardless. If there is a tornado in your area while you're watching The Stanley Cup? Then yes, you would indeed miss the game you were watching for it to be activated. A Test is something that a station/cable system is required to do weekly/monthly. They usually do them around 1-3 am Monday when most people are asleep.
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Robnoxious posted:This is interesting but alarming. The terrorists can win if they plan their dastardly deeds around championship events. Are tornado warnings also off limits?
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Oh... nevermind then. I.CANT.READ. 
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