Completely Unimportant Sport News Update...

[Lord Jim]

In Premier League Soccer, Arsenal is currently leading Leicester City 3-1....

How do I happen to know this useless bit of trivia you ask? Because I was clicking around the channels, and for some inexplicable reason this game is being broadcast on USA ...

I guess they couldn't even get Ron Popeil to buy the time slot...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Rotten score-line that. Never mind - perhaps Arse-'n-all's plane will have a slight accident on the way back to London

Vitally important world-shaking score - Tottenham Hotspur 4 - Manchester City 1.

USA is owned by NBC (or whoever owns them) and NBC has the Premier League rights. So you'll see games on USA, NBCSports and from time to time on NBC itself. Mind, that only seems to have happened when Manchester United were kicking off a 12:30pm (ET) game.

[oldr_n_wsr]

You need to stop watching TV and get out more Lord Jim.

[Lord Jim]

I get out plenty oldr...

But as I've explained before, watching TV now is frequently what we do en lieu of having a social life...

(However in this particular case, I was flipping around the dial on the kitchen TV while I was making a nice Saturday breakfast for the fam...)

But thanks for your advice and concern...

[Lord Jim]

It's tied up at 2-2 between Sunderland and West Ham!

I'm going to have to change the channel; I don't think my heart can take the excitement...

[Long Run]

Yes, there must be a snooker tournament being aired. Let me know when you find it.

[rubato]

Speaking of snooker or snooking or whatever it is ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_snook

Common snook
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"Róbalo" redirects here. For the fish from southern South America, see Eleginopidae.
Common snook
Centropomus undecimalis1.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Centropomidae
Genus: Centropomus
Species: C. undecimalis
Binomial name
Centropomus undecimalis
(Bloch, 1792)

The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the sciaenid genus Sciaena; Sciaena undecimradiatus and Centropomus undecimradiatus are obsolete synonyms for the species.

"Perciformes" means "Fish-shaped" which is a pretty damn good name for an order of the same although bordering on circular in logic. Although I think I rather order some nice local oysters instead.

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Un coup de Champagne and a leisurely sunset and life is perfect!

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