> All week I've been looking forward to SportsSouth's *listed* local > telecast of the Harvard-Lake State semi-final. A former student who > gets cable was going to tape it. He just called. The cable company has > decided there's no audience for an afternoon hockey game in the Columbia > market. They have substituted something else: tractor pull, fish fry, > wrestler interviews, NASCAR hot stove league,...whatever they can sweep > off the floor, they don't care. > On Sportchannel Pacific we only got the LSSU/Harvard game. I called SportsChannel and they said that they were only able to pick up Prime feeds direct (i.e. Prime can tape delay, but SCP cannot). Since the BU/Minn game conflicted with the Sharks game (it wasn't a fishfry, they were playing Toronto, not Hartford), we missed the second semi-final game. I taped the first game (11am start out here), and shut off my mailtool so I wouldn't have the game spoiled by seeing the results. What happens?? While driving home I flip to the 4:45 sport update on KCBS to hear any Sharks stories and they LEAD with the semi-final results! End of OT suspense. Wayne, does KCBS subscribe to hockey-l? ;-) Seriously, for them to lead with a story other than the Niners, Giants, A's, Sharks, Stanford, Cal, etc. is very rare. -John Hughes [log in to unmask] Santa Clara, CA