A TV tip for watching Billiards

[Snapshot9]

A handy thing for me, since I have an upstairs and downstairs, and I have Cox Cable is to:

1) Press guide button twice. It listed categories, page down until you get to 'Sports'. Within sports, it lists several different sports. Go down until the end of sports, and you will see 'Other Sports'. Highlight other sports and press the right curved button.
2) It lists all the individual programs within this category. Look for 'Billiards', highlight 'Billiards' and if a channel you have, press the select button.
Repeat this for every Billiard program for the day, and select.
3) Your TV will now change automatically to the Billiard program at the starting time, and if you are like me and on the computer upstairs, you can hear it, and know that Billiards is on.

Simply select the 'previous channel' button to go back to the channel before Billiards came on.

I do this every morning while having coffee downstairs, with the TV on, and I am set for the day.

I am watching Ewa and Vivian play for the 1996 Championship right now on ESPNClassic and saw something I have never seen before:

Vivian hooked Ewa twice and Ewa missed hitting the 1.
Vivian made the 1. Made the 2, and hooked Ewa on the 3.
Ewa missed the 3, and the game went to Vivian for 3 foul rule.
What??? 3 foul rule without being in a row????

 

[jay helfert]

A handy thing for me, since I have an upstairs and downstairs, and I have Cox Cable is to:

1) Press guide button twice. It listed categories, page down until you get to 'Sports'. Within sports, it lists several different sports. Go down until the end of sports, and you will see 'Other Sports'. Highlight other sports and press the right curved button.
2) It lists all the individual programs within this category. Look for 'Billiards', highlight 'Billiards' and if a channel you have, press the select button.
Repeat this for every Billiard program for the day, and select.
3) Your TV will now change automatically to the Billiard program at the starting time, and if you are like me and on the computer upstairs, you can hear it, and know that Billiards is on.

Simply select the 'previous channel' button to go back to the channel before Billiards came on.

I do this every morning while having coffee downstairs, with the TV on, and I am set for the day.

I am watching Ewa and Vivian play for the 1996 Championship right now on ESPNClassic and saw something I have never seen before:

Vivian hooked Ewa twice and Ewa missed hitting the 1.
Vivian made the 1. Made the 2, and hooked Ewa on the 3.
Ewa missed the 3, and the game went to Vivian for 3 foul rule.
What??? 3 foul rule without being in a row????

If Ewa missed hitting the 1 twice, she was on two fouls. She needed to make a good hit on her next turn at the table. This is true regardless of how many balls Vivian makes on her turn. Ewa needed to hit the 3.