I watched Leeds United play Fulham in a Premier League soccer match this past Saturday morning with my friend Mark, seen in the photograph above wearing his Leeds jersey and magically transported to Elland Road Stadium in Leeds thanks to the wonders of Photoshop. I didn't get to Mark's house until the 75-minute mark of the game, but was in time to see Leeds score a goal and beat Fulham 1-0. We then watched the end of the Tottenham soccer match, seeing Tottenham fall to West Ham 2-1. Tottenham is bad this year, but West Ham is worse, currently in the relegation zone, but still able to beat the Hotspurs. Next, we watched Lens beat Auxerre 1-0 in a Ligue 1 soccer match. Ligue 1, by the way, is the top tier of French soccer. And then we watched the end of a cricket match in South Africa between the Joburg Super Kings and Pretoria Capitals, which Pretoria handily won. Later in the day, here in Denver, the Denver Broncos beat the Buffalo Bills 33-30 to advance to the AFC championship game, although the celebration in Colorado was tempered by the fact that the Bronco's quarterback, Bo Nix, broke his ankle in the final moments of the game. All of this to say that there is a hell of a lot of live sports that can be watched on television these days from all over the world. And evidently there is a big demand for it. The question is whether or not this demand is fueled by sports betting, which now seems to be very popular across the globe. I myself don't see the attraction, since any baseball team I ever root for always seems to lose, and betting money on them would just add to the pain. And I mean you, Chicago White Sox!
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