Greenie writes: >At 09:24 PM 1/29/98 +0000, Michael Bohler wrote: >>ESPN is selling an eight-game pay-per-view package that will include >>the first two rounds of the NCAA hockey championship. The package >>will cost $29.95 for all eight games (March 27-29). >>standard trailer: call your local cable service provider >Ammend that trailer to say "call your local cable service provider or DIRECTV" >Spoke with a rep at DirecTV today who claims the same offer will be made to >us pizza-dish subscribers for the same price. >Yippeeeee! I don't know whether to be happy about this or not. I object to events being on Pay Per View that could just as well be on cable or broadcast TV (like NBC's suck-a-rama coverage of the 1992 Olympics, which I suspected was to get people to buy the TripleCast). OTOH, if it's something that wouldn't otherwise be available, I wouldn't feel taken advantage of. Thirty bucks to see all of the regionals is a lot better than tracking down a sports bar that gets M$C and then having a game pre-empted by a pep rally (1997), but maybe not as good as having half the games on eSPn2 (1995). As I recall, that year neither Clarkson nor RPI advanced to what would have been a TV game. This sounds like a much better deal for non-dish people, actually. If one of the RSNs had picked it up, and the NCAA had gotten its blackout procedures right, folks with mini-dishes could have seen the regionals for free. I suppose I'd be more excited if there were anyone in Salt Lake who go in with me on it. If I'm shelling for the whole thing, I suppose I'll feel obliged to watch all 24 hours. The four-game marathon Saturday should be interesting... John Whelan, Cornell '91 Official Scorer/PA Announcer U of Utah Ice Hockey Club <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/joe.html> HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.