Regardless of what happened, ESPN dropped the ball. In this day of instant
communications they owed it to their viewers to get the word out. There is
still no mention of the non-event on their web site and no mention was made,
as near as I could tell, during yesterday's Sports Center shows. Here in
the greater NYC area MSG Sports ran the race at 5:00PM. I only found it
while surfing... good find.
Sent two e-mail to ESPN asking what happened with no response.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jaral48462 <Jaral48462@aol.com>
To: chryselwood@sympatico.ca <chryselwood@sympatico.ca>; DWhitesdJr@aol.com
<DWhitesdJr@aol.com>; nobozos@ix.netcom.com <nobozos@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, March 9, 1998 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: F1 Television Coverage on ESPN2
>In a message dated 98-03-08 20:31:12 EST, chryselwood@sympatico.ca writes:
>
><< Up here in Canada we had two options our sports network (TSN) with
Murray
> Walker & Palmer? and Speedvision. I too found the Speedvision coverage
> better. The video was the same (or similar) but the audio was much
> better. At least David Hobbs & Sam Posey kept quiet sometime and didn't
> spout off as Murray is apt to do! >>
>
>I would prefer to laugh at the insane comments of Murray Walker & Jonathon
>Palmer then be put to sleep by the commentary of Hobbs and Posey. At least
>Murray puts some excitement in what was an unchallenged race from the drop
of
>the flag. Wish I could get TSN down here in Michigan.
>
>Ron
>
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