Sports on TV: The More You Look, the More You Shouldn't

These are 23 (more) facts, tried and true, about the widening world of sports television:

1. This is a non-Olympic year. Cherish it.

2. Do you know how many times I have fallen asleep watching a Braves game on TBS and, when I awaken, Chipper Jones is still at-bat?

3. I called DirecTV and asked why I had Fox Soccer Channel. The guy apologized and took it off my package.

4. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Any time I hear NFL draftniks, it becomes Even More Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

5. The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is going to close. There goes another Versus home.

6. He might be the best golfer ever, but almost every time I look up on Sunday, Tiger Woods is dueling some guy who was in line next to me at Target last month.

7. I understand Japanese TV is developing "Survivor: New York" in which a dozen Tokyo twentysomethings try to survive on the Upper East Side on $600 a month.

8. With the success of ESPNU, ESPNMe can't be far behind.

(Column Intermission I: Sri Lankan native Suresh Joachim recently broke his own world record for nonstop TV viewing, clocking 72 hours in Stockholm. He watched three seasons of "24" with Kiefer Sutherland, which is the non-sporting equivalent to watching three basketball games with Hubie Brown.)

9. The best thing about Hockey Night in Canada? It's in Canada.

10. There's an old expression, "Everyone talks about the weather, no one does anything about it." So how come the Weather Channel doesn't have a nightly "Around the Horn"-style show?