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Last Week Tonight Last Night

May 18, 2020
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If you missed last night's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, his Main Story was a fun but important one about sports -- the efforts to bring them back to the public and the hurdles to be faced that are much greater than would seem on the surface.  It's a good look at the subject and much more fun than some of the recent pieces. 


I only have two quibbles about the story.  The first is that it references announcers, but doesn't include some of the funny videos (like several posted here) that professional announcers have made by doing play-by-play coverage of ordinary events.  And the other is that there's no mention of perhaps the most-prominent return of sports that has, thus far, taken place -- that of Korean baseball, which ESPN has been broadcasting.


​That aside, it's a good and funny report



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