I just noticed that NESN has tonight's St. Lawrence-RPI game scheduled
to run from 7pm-9:30pm Eastern, with a college basketball game
(Syracuse-West Virginia) from 9:30-11pm.  This makes me wonder:

1. Why is the game scheduled for 2.5 rather than 3 hours?  A typical
college hockey game should fit into a 2:30 timeslot, but with TV
timeouts, they tend to go more like 2:45.

2. I don't expect NESN will go to the basketball game until the hockey
game is finished, but last fall when the Harvard-Brown football game
ran over three hours, NESN go blacked out on my dish because DIRECTV
saw that according to the schedule they were supposed to be showing a
Division I-AA college football game which was presumably only
available as part of a pay-per-view package.  Am I going to have to
make an irate call to DIRECTV tonight at 8:31 Central?

                                          John Whelan, Cornell '91
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