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...past three seasons, Oakland has been the chic pick of baseball experts around the nation. The majority of ESPN analysts last season predicted the A’s to win the World Series. A win over the Twins in the first round last year was guaranteed. And for the past three years, Oakland has been sent packing after round...
...moment passed quietly Tuesday night, with only the sound of idle bar chatter, ESPN highlights of the days’ playoff baseball games on television and hundreds of cigarettes being simultaneously extinguished to mark the abolition of smoking in all bars in Cambridge. I admit I am an occasional smoker, particularly at bars, but inconveniencing me or people whose clothes smell smoky at the end of a night is not the issue here. The real issue is that this law is an attempt by a group of meddling politicians and nosy puritans who would like to impose a sanitized, smoke...
...World Series who have provided some of the best human drama of the summer. On every episode, intelligence is rewarded, hubris is punished, millions of dollars change hands, and luck makes a cameo. Perhaps most shocking of all, people are watching. According to Nielsen ratings, World Series (ESPN, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) has averaged 1,248,000 viewers during its eight-week run, which ends with a grand finale at 8 p.m. Aug. 26 (watch for repeats in the fall). A year ago, the same time slot averaged 408,000 viewers. Series' two-hour rival, World Poker Tour, pulled...
...victory as the cards are dealt. And whether or not you've played poker (and more than 50 million Americans have), it's thrilling to see a guy with zip bluff $300,000 out of someone with a pair of kings. The difference between the shows is that ESPN has the superior event. World Poker Tour is made-for-TV entertainment, whereas the World Series has been an annual event at Binion's since 1970. Anyone who posts the $10,000 entry fee can play, and this year's winner's take was $2.5 million. That kind of money brings...
...ESPN taped the one-month event at Binion's last May, piping the view of the hole cards into tape machines secured by armed guards to prevent cheating. Then they added play-by-play in postproduction. "You don't see everything they play," says McEachern. "You see a representative number of hands, exciting hands, to be TV friendly." In between the action, there are refreshingly cheese-free player profiles introducing the likes of Annie Duke, the top poker-playing woman, who came in 10th in 2000 while eight months' pregnant; Dutch Boyd, a math genius who went to college...