sportingnews.com - 5/31/2008
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TNT and ESPN/ABC are getting amazing ratings for the Playoffs this year and a lot of people (including myself) are wondering why. Sure having the Lakers and Celtics playing helps, but the numbers the Association has been pulling in are astronomical. TNT's game 4 of the Spurs-Lakers series pulled 5,394,000 households, up 49% compared to the network's coverage of game 4 of the Eastern ...
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Whitlock: Less Tattoos = Better Ratings. Reality: Ha Ha... What?!
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... , it's a fun theory, but it is rooted in nothing more than absurdist theology and/or some tainted carne asada. Brian Powell at The Sporting Blog tries to rescue Whitlock with a strained link to increased team play, though I'd tend to disagree with any assertion that the number of a team's tattoos are inversely proportional to that team's sharing attitude. I mean, seriously. (Nation of Islam Sportsblog ...
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