From: David N. Barnett 

On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 19:30:43 -0400, John Beamish 
wrote in message :

| As did I.  I was trying to imagine the [stereotype warning] "typical
| Canadian jock" surfing over to TSN (The Sports Network) and being |
confronted with miniature Howard Cosell's actually attempting to spell |
the vocabulary he used .

As it turns out, they're showing the National Spelling Bee on ESPN2, a
sports channel, here too.  And The National Geographic Bee is on PBS at the
same time.  Both bees include thirteen-year-old George Thampy.

--dnb

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