Today is the biggest sporting event on the planet. Since this is the only planet that we know has sentient life and therefore sports, it is probably the biggest sporting event ever. Hundreds of millions -- perhaps billions! -- of people will watch the World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina, the culmination of the largest championship of the most popular sport we have.
The ESPN3 Chronicles: Let’s watch Germany play an international sporting event
It’s 2014. The Internet allows previously unimagined ways of communicating and distributing information. This means you can watch the randomest sporting events possible on your computer, thanks to ESPN3. We find the strangest.
Matthias Kern
Which is why today we launch The ESPN3 Chronicles, wherein we find the strangest things broadcast on ESPN’s amazing streaming service. This service allows us to watch the World Cup on our computer -- in fact, we can watch it in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and from a tactical camera. It also allows us to watch things that maybe four or five people on the planet could possibly be interested in. It allows us to watch those things instantaneously. There is a human being paid to record these things, and people being paid to announce them, and people in a truck being paid to put graphics on the screen and put on replays.
Here are today’s three weirdest things:
Germany vs. Hong Kong, World Lacrosse Championship, 1 p.m.
ESPN3 is broadcasting the World Lacrosse Championships -- they’re even putting some of the games with the US on real TV. Like the World Cup, it is held every four years, and there is healthy competition between the United States, Canada, a team of Iroquois nationals, and several other countries.
Unlike the World Cup, there is also a B division. And a C division. And six more, featuring teams in countries where lacrosse is barely played. Uganda is making its debut this year, as is Thailand, who recently lost 24-3 to Scotland.
We wonder if there is a single person in Germany who will take more interest in their sixth-division lacrosse matchup with similarly lacrosse-averse Hong Kong than in the World Cup Final against Argentina. If there is, they’re in luck! You can watch it!
Louisville Slugger Major Baseball Championship, 10 year old division, 3 p.m.
T H E Y A R E 1 0 Y E A R S O L D
Even younger than the kids in the Little League World Series. The 12- and 14-year-olds are on later.
STIHL Timbersports Series, Championship pool B, 11:30 a.m.
Sorry for not telling you earlier! This appears to be college kids chopping stuff, and sadly not Pitbull and Ke$ha playing each other in ping pong:
This is a multi-day event, so we will keep you updated.
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