Re: Satellite radio - XM or Sirius?
My favorite sport is soccer (specifically English Premier League, European Champions' League, and World Cup/European Championships), but I'll admit it doesn't translate to radio very well. XM apparently is going to be broadcasting the World Cup Finals this June, but since it seems like it's going to be on one of their channels that is -normally- Spanish-language I'm not sure whether it'll be any use to me since my Spanish is about at the level of a 3-year-old. (I'm fluent in German and Russian so either of those 2 languages would be OK.) Apparently, though, they sometimes pre-empt channels for special events like that (my friend who has XM tells me that their Electronica channel has been pre-empted in favor of Xmas music until the day after Xmas, for example), so maybe it'll be English-language. If it is, that's a big plus in favor of XM. If they carried regular English Premier League matches, they'd be a slam-dunk, right there.
Baseball, I think, is the sport that lends itself best to radio coverage, and I WAS, at one time, a big baseball fan. I fell away from the game (although I still pay tangential attention) after that horrible strike in 1994, and never really came all the way back. Since I was (is??) a Blue Jays fan, that was probably exquisite timing anyway, since it's been all downhill since Carter's HR. If I had a service like this where I could listen to EVERY Blue Jays game, though, I might be convinced to get back into it. Never been a NASCAR fan and probably never will be. Hockey is my 2nd favorite of the "big" sports in the US, but both XM and Sirius have it so I don't think there'd be much to choose from there, unless one service or another exclusively carried all the Sabres games or something. I don't dislike the NFL, but it's my fourth favorite form of football behind soccer, rugby union and Aussie Rules, and I don't really follow any one team, so that's a strike against Sirius I guess.
Of course, my second-favorite sport is cricket (from living in Australia for 5 years), which no US satellite radio service will carry, ever. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
--Scott
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