This weekend, for the first time in over 20 years, the world will crown an undisputed heavyweight champion. Headlining the Ring of Fire boxing event at Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Arena this Saturday is a match up between British heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Ukrainian cruiserweight champion turned heavyweight contender...
I need to figure out some way to control the media on my desktop when I'm across the room. Maybe with my phone? I know I can use #spotify for that but I also like to use #shortwave (the gnome frontend for radio-browser.info) and sometimes YouTube but I don't use an account for that. Also the occasional streaming service like ESPN+ or fanatiz for soccer. Maybe I could rig up something with #kodi and do like a remote start feature for it.
I mean I could also pry my ass off the couch but #cats.
The United Soccer League and ESPN have reached a multi-year extension. There is no word on how long the extension is for or the terms of the extension, but it keeps the USL on ESPN. CBS Sports and ESPN will air 35 games between them on their respective live linear networks.
It seems only the Grand Slams end up on ESPN in the US (or other providers outside the US.) The TennisChannel+ is how I watch all the others from the US.
There’s plenty of interesting stuff going on in the world. Reporting on it doesn’t maximize profit.
CNN used to have shows about fashion, sports, entertainment, the arts, world affairs. They figured out that just having talking heads blab and argue with each other was cheaper.
CNN headline news used to be just a 30 minute broadcast about the day’s major headlines repeated on a loop every half hour. They didn’t really fill the entire 24 hours with different stories all day long.
Similarly ESPN used to show sports of all kinds. Rugby, Soccer, bowling, snooker/billiards. Again, it’s just taking heads now.
The national women’s soccer league sells their broadcast rights each year to different networks and the story for 2024 was they got more money than ever (yay!), but spread across FOUR networks (boo!).
Next year I’ll need at least 3 streaming subscriptions totalling about $100/mo just to watch my favorite sport (Prime Video, Paramount+, YouTubeTV, and possibly ESPN+)
This is a pain in the ass for fans and borders on the madness that is MLB broadcasting. #nwsl
@CityHoosier Mostly because they paid a fortune for the Spanish La Liga rights and then Messi left Barcelona a week later. I'm a regular ESPN soccer watcher and even I'm sick of how much they plug La Liga.
I have FreshRSS running on the website I've had for eleventybillion years and finally found something to do with it when I (mostly) left Reddit. Here are the feeds I have:
Star Wars News Net. They could be crap, I don't know, but in the end who cares? I'm a grown man who pays attention to a Disney-owned media franchise. Self-respect went out the window in favor of nostalgia a LONG time ago.
XKCD
NPR News
Local DFW TV station that hasn't killed their feed yet
BBC Science and Environment
Verge
Keyboard builders digest. Oh man, I'm super excited about the plates I have coming from Xometry for a TKL design I tweaked on keyboard layout editor and pairing them with some DSA keycaps. Going for a whole "vaguely reminiscent of various 8- and 16-bit computers" vibe. I hope they aren't too rough to finish decently.
FC Dallas feed
Jacksonville Jaguars feed
NFL, soccer, and NCAAF feeds from CBS and Fox Sports
Sports feed from a Jacksonville station that is shamelessly leveraging their AP stories
@joepferguson@grmpyprogrammer ESPN can also mess up football (the thing you call soccer). Horrible commentators, forcing games to be played at times that are impossible for supporters that want to visit in the stadium. Ugh...
Why is fubo the worst garbage ever? I set it to DVR FP3 and it recorded some USA college football (soccer) and then some USA college American football (armored wankball). Did ESPN move channels? Anyone know if Quali and/or race is being broadcast different from the scheduled channel as well??
@blitzcitydiy Read some playground notes you wrote about this yesterday. Really looking forward to using this on my own matrix panels! I had the same idea but was going to try the NFL api. ESPN sounds much easier. Some amazing python code with PIL and grabbing all the sports including US soccer. Can’t wait to read how you got it working for the matrix portal.
I managed to get my wife hooked on soccer through the World Cup (yesssss). What’s the best way to watch the NWSL on steaming? Is it Paramount+ or the s there something else I need instead/also?
Basically YoutubeTV has all of the ESPNs including SEC & ACC network, Fox sports networks, NFL network, Big10, Tennis and Golf. Also TNT and TBS for college bball. It lost NHL network a few seasons ago and MLB network last year though.
When NFL season rolls around I usually pay an extra $11/month for an extended sports package with Redzone and some other random soccer, horseracing, poker etc channels.
Insane. I just needed to share this with someone who might give a shit. And this community might not be the place, but still. Needed to call them out somewhere. Gross.
Yeah, definitely. I was going to say something along the lines of, they do this and then tell us all we don’t like soccer.
And the only reason I was actually watching ESPN was because I looked up at the gym and saw, on one of the 25 TVs, something actually interesting, so I started paying attention. And then they showed three goals in under a minute and then said the score was 5-0. And jumped as quick as they could back to American football players talking about a season that hasn’t even started yet. Ffs
If both teams end up on 4 points after this game I think they'll be more than happy.
Paul Carr is a Football guy who used to work for ESPN and his prediction is a Double Chance of Italy & the draw, i.e. it'll probably end in a draw but, as his opinion of the Swedes is they're past their peak, then if anyone's going to win it it's the Italians.
Paul is very good at this stuff- so I've blindly followed his advice.
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Wow. ESPN showed only three of the five goals in the Sweden/Italy match. They cut it short to talk…about American football TRAINING CAMP.
Insane. I just needed to share this with someone who might give a shit. And this community might not be the place, but still. Needed to call them out somewhere. Gross.