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    C-Span 3

    I just got a message that someone who gets CSpan and CSpan-2 from DirecTV lost their C-Span 3 a while ago and would like someone - me - to restore it to service for them. As of this moment, I have only communicated with them through an intermediary, but neither the end user or the intermediary...
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    146th Belmont Stakes - Saturday, June 7th 2014

    Coburn does strike me as "iggerrant". How did he make his mooney?
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    2014 MLB Season

    FYI, the Boston Globe reports that Drew will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season. If he had taken the $14+M qualifying offer, I think he would have again been tethered to a draft pick. FWIW, the Red Sox outfield offense is so pathetic that if Drew clicks and...
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    ESPN/World Cup Commercial Public shiort term

    A campground customer of mine where I maintained the free-to-guest SMATV needs ESPN for its Conference Center public viewing room to make the World Cup on ESPN available to his Conference Center visitors. The owner recently got brazen and dropped ESPN from his free-to-guest lineup a few months...
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    ESPN World Cup commercial public viewing

    A campground customer of mine where I maintain the free-to-guest SMATV needs ESPN for its Conference Center public viewing room to make the World Cup on ESPN available to his Conference Center visitors. The owner recently got brazen and dropped ESPN from his free-to-guest lineup a few months ago...
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    2014 Boston Marathon results

    That search function is limited to the top 1,000 finishers. He wasn't one of them
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    2014 Boston Marathon results

    Is there a site that publishes a searchable list of the times of all the finishers? A cousin of mine ran in it, but he is nearly 60 years old and likely did not make the top 10,000.
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    Al Jazeera Is Now Scrambled

    I watched Al Jazeera English regularly when it was broadcast off-air from Falls Church Virginia, and then I watch the bootleg feed that was available for a few weeks, but that got jammed so now I don't see it at all. I remember reading that Al Jazeera had hired four cable TV news has-beens to...
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    Hello Billy Joel channel Bye Bye Big Bands

    I drove through Philadelphia around 2006. Of course, I didn't have by radio's buttons set on any local FM stations, but each cycle through autoscan typically found three or four of his songs being played at the same time.
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    Channel lock or revert feature on D-11 100s and others?

    No chance any switch failure could cause this. Each receiver consistently elects the same channel (360 on one, 642 on the other) every time, and since the receivers were used in a sportsbar, it had to have had one receiver dedicated to 642. Someone in another forum has said that there might...
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    Channel lock or revert feature on D-11 100s and others?

    A DirecTV commercial dealer who has every category of dealership gave me a few old D11-100s that had been in a sportsbar analog modulated headend. It was my intention to use them for SMATV also. I'm having problems with two of them. One that I set for CNN 202 keeps switching itself to Fox...
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    NFL considering abolishing extra points?

    Anyone can make six out of ten in the driveway, even seven out of ten with a little practice. But basketball players run up and down the court, get whacked and then have to take the results of their first two. A few decades ago, it was published in my local newspaper that the free throw...
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    Rick Wise pitched a major league no-hitter in which he hit TWO home runs. :p
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    Celtics "win" again.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    A starting pitcher throws each and every pitch when he is on the mound. A starting fielder fields a tiny fraction of that many. 162 games times 9 innings each is about 1,400 or so innings. A 200 inning starter pitches 1/7 of his team's innings, whereas a 162 game a year position player bats...
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    "P" on that

    From ESPN.com: Spurrier's nine assistant coaches also received raises that put their combined compensation at $3.3 million, up from the $2.7 the group earned this past season. All assistants were given new two-year contract agreements except for defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward, who received...
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    My former business partner was on the same CYO basketball team as two convicted murders.
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    MLB 2013-2014 off-season moves

    If he isn't worth the money, then no pitcher is, but from a risk standpoint, I'm not sure that any pitcher is. In addition to the contract, the Dodgers must be paying for a huge insurance policy, but I doubt that such policies cover for injuries or deterioration that simply reduce a pitcher's...
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    Happy Anniversary Mr. Kraft!!

    Grogan makes my all-time tough-guy list. When he was running with the ball and was about to be tackled by a cornerback or safety, he didn't do the chicken-sh*t, knee first slides like Roger Staubach. He used to put his head down and fire himself into the tackler just like a running back.
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    The Weather Channel....is BACK!

    I remember back in the early 1990s when NBC was dropping its Saturday afternoon Major League Baseball Game of the Week, a friend of mine who had watched it religiously in the 1960s was apopleptic and wanted to start a letter writing campaign in protest. He did not realized that his own local...
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    The Weather Channel....is BACK!

    I still think "Times Warner Cable" when I see TWC
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    Unprecedented? There was no player before Jordan who played out his contract without complaining??? In fairness to Jordan, I don't think he demanded that his contractual annual payments of $30,140,000 for 1996-1997 or $33,140,000 for 1997-1998 be increased.
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    The Weather Channel....is BACK!

    I sent out notifications to half a dozen hotels where I maintain the DirecTV headends, advising them on what to tell any guests who might complain. So far, I have not received a single response or acknowledgement from any of those hotels
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    2013-2014 NBA Season

    The end of the Jordan saga was bizarre. Jordan had an unenforceable "gentlemen's agreement" to eventually own or co-own the Wizards. He wasn't playing just for $1 million a year. He was playing to enhance the value of the franchise. The price he expected to pay for his share after...
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    Happy Anniversary Mr. Kraft!!

    You're never as smart as you look like you are when you're winning and you're never as dumb as you look like you are when your losing, so I guess that means that Dan Snyder is not as dumb as he always seems to be, because he's always losing. Snyder is vilified for every personnel move he makes...
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