ESPN Belmont Day

[OldDog]

I was pleasantly surprised at the amount and quality of coverage ESPN gave to the Belmont Stakes/potential Triple Crown story that morning. I thought it was great stuff. Right at noon, just before they turned to covering something like speedsurfskateboardmotocross (or whatever), they ran a short maybe 2 minutes long preview/tease of the Belmont-Triple Crown narrated by Bill Nack. Again, very surprising since they weren't actually broadcasting the race. It was very much like one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FhrbbDIb94

and nobody does them better than Nack IMO.

I'm standing there transfixed, remote in hand because I was going to turn off the TV until I heard Nack's unmistakable voice and looked back at the screen, and before it's over I have major goosebumps and am even more psyched, if that's possible, about the day. Since then I have tried in vain to find the video on the interwebs. I even sent an email inquiry to ESPN.

Thank you for contacting us.

I apologize for any
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Did I dream this? Did anyone here see it?

And by the way, this is for Steve: Have you considered having Nack on ATR to talk about the Triple Crown? It's been a long time since he was on the show. I bet it would be great.

[Monarchos1]

The amount of Belmont coverage on ESPN was extraordinary for the network. I'm sure that had far more to do with the DraftKings race sponsorship than any sudden love ESPN developed for the sport. One of the best things that could happen to racing now would be for the partially Disney-owned DraftKings to continue to sponsor races.