I almost hate to do this, because I haven't heard anything about it, but I thought this might be interesting in light of the discussion we had a month or two ago.... From rec.sport.hockey: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: [log in to unmask] (Mark Shneyder 2-4219) Subject: ESPN 2 Official Announcement Date: 6 Jun 1993 23:11:19 GMT On Monday(6/7/93) in NYC, CapCities Inc.,owner of ABC and ESPN, will hold an official press conference regarding the launch of ESPN 2 later this year (December). ESPN 2 is expected to carry 3 NHL games a week(Tuesday,Wednesday,and Thursday); rest of its programming will be mostly MTV Sports clone. ESPN is still expected to carry the Game of The Week(Fridays) plus playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals Series. ESPN 2 will also carry a good number of early rounds playoff games. Stay Tuned, -PPV Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------ End of forwarded material According to this post, it appears that the new channel is being set up mostly for hockey coverage (sorry, but I don't really count MTV Sports as REAL programming :-) ). I don't know about how reliable that is, but if so, I wonder what the chances of getting some regular season college games would be. Do we dare hope? Scott, planning on finding out more....