Anybody catch this on ESPN2? It's been on after the World Cup games. I'm sorry, how hard up is ESPN for programming? Is this 1979 or what? It's presented like Poker with the television audience seeing what each player is holding and a play-by-play man and anylyst.
So, what other childhood games can be televised? Cribbage? Gin Rummy? Sorry? When will it end?

I saw this and did a doubletake. I know it's filler programming to show between World Cup games, but they really have no clue. First they tried Paintball which is impossible to follow on TV, and now this. Laughable, man - ha ha.

You've got to be kidding me. What's next indeed. I'm guessing Yahtzee.

Dominoes is pretty popular in latin America, so I can understand ESPN Deportes covering it. Not much different that ESPN covering poker. It probably made it to ESPN because it had been successful on ESPN Deportes and was dirt cheap to produce.

It's also pretty popular in the Carribean as well as in the U.S. To PLAY. Not so much, to WATCH. Especially on television. I agree about the dirt cheap, however.

ESPN is one of the pay TV channels here in Australia. It's not one I subscribe to, but I saw it listed in the TV guide and thought how tragic has sports programming become now, if it is reduced to showing dominoes. I did speculate to my family that it might not be dominoes the game but dominoe falling, that great spectable of setting up intricate patterns and letting them fall. But alas, it appears it is dominoes the game. What next? Snakes and Ladders? Old Maid? Snap? There are endless possibilities out there for boring inane television. Why stop at dominoes?

There was an article in the New York Times, I think, some time back when ESPN announced it was going to start airing dominos. The NY Times was questioning the draw of dominos on TV and saying it was just another way people were trying to capitalize on the poker craze. I tried to find the article but couldn't.

I've already seen Magic: The Gathering tournaments on ESPN. Dominoes is a step up, IMO.

I'll say this: I'd definitely watch if Ashy Larry showed up.

Seriously?

Now if ESPN wants to convince us that dominoes is a real sport, then some marketing genius needs to expand upon domino hunting.

Public TV, I think, did Fisher and Spassky in chess about a zillion years ago. IMHO watching grass grow was more exciting. The only positive thing about it was/is it only injures the ego of the players.

It's behind the firewall now, but the NYT had an article about how the group that runs partypoker.com has decided to get into online backgammon for money. Considering how much money they have made on poker, I could see them pushing/negotiating for television coverage of backgammon.

As for chess, ESPN ran the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov match a couple of years ago and I found it oddly intereting. They managed to put together a team that made it entertaining despite the fact the only thing I know about chess is the rules.

xaxat, Seriously.