by Slate Quicksilver
ESPN has been showing 24 straight hours of college basketball on their network to celebrate the "opening" of a new season of the sport. Of course, the season started a while ago and some teams lost in that "fake" part of the season that apparently did not exist. Feel bad for Monmouth University who woke up this morning to play at 6 A.M. because ESPN said do it or you won't be on TV this year. Oh, and they lost.
Anyway, this site will have a caring interest in this sport, but we are of thought that this is still football season. Football season is king right now and when it comes to basketball, we can't be bothered unless it is a big matchup. Right now, most teams are devouring cupcakes from Eastern Northwest Southern State Technical Agriculture Colleges/Automotive Technical Repair Repositories. Granted, some teams actually have tough schedules before January 1. However most of those are the juggernauts (North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State...).
Anyway, we hear at PLS thank ESPN for reminding us of the other season. However we could not think of this without thinking about the failed ideas that could have been shown on 24 hour-loop.
Here are a few that were bounced around in the Quicksilver household:
24 Hour coverage of...
The Scrabble World Championships
Replay of Louisville-Syracuse from 11/14/2009 that resulted in a 10-9 Loovil victory
Regional Speed Reading Trials
MTV Real World vs. Road Rules Marathon (wait... I'm sure this has already done before because MTV assumes that their average viewer has the intelligence of a cement mixer. And they assume correctly)
County Level Spelling Bee Mosaic
WNBA Preseason Marathon
CSPAN Debate-off
Paint Brand Drying Speed Runs
A Jar of Mayonnaise
Collection of Nicholas Cage's last 12 movies
Ben Stein Reads Sun Tzu's "War and Peace" in front of a White Wall
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