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punter clips politician.
(step aside, paul ryan!) tale of a marathon fabulist.
Let's go Skeeters
that damn "dock ellis pitches a no-hitter on lsd" again. i wouldnt post this but i thought the way its presented is pretty cool.
qatar "won" the rights to the 2022 world cup, then they spent $200 million to advertise themselves on barcelonas jerseys for the next ten years. after that they bought paris st. germain in the french league and started scooping up talent for them, and finally theyve launched a new soccer channel and have been aggressively buying up broadcasting rights around the world. for the us market, they now control rights to the italian, french and spanish leagues. not a bad thing on the face of it (for me as its only available at the moment via satellite) but i cant see with only one channel how theyll manage scheduling conflicts. all three leagues were broadcast on separate channels last year so there were games from each league broadcast live simultaneously .
anyway, the station is beIN Sports owned by the good folks at al-jazeera. i guess i should be happy that the new NBCSports channel wasnt in the mix.
are you ready for some football? well, english premier league gets underway this weekend so no rest for those sports weary brits. have to say that its somewhat anti-climactic when the league is so top heavy. only three teams are considered serious contenders while three others are given an outside shot at winning and as spain has only two teams with a fighting chance, barcelona and real madrid, it makes sense that the champions league draws so much attention as theres at least some question as to who will be competitive.
still, maybe i should try to read a book. has a new mark twain come out recently. that last one was a corker.
olympic events schedule though not a tv schedule.