We do not have jet packs yet, but we have iPhones, a black president, and
now football broadcast in 3-D! Fox and Sony have announced that next
month's BCS Championship game between the Gators and the Sooners at
Dolphin Stadium will be shot in 3-D.Obviously, even the most expensive flat-screen
HDTV will not be able to get the 3-D signal. Instead, the game will be
broadcast to specially equipped movie theaters (the nearest of which is
in Port St. Lucie, much farther than the actual game itself). A
Friendly bets on sporting games by officeholders is a hallowed tradition in which headline-hungry politicians make cheap bids for soft coverage. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently got a nice batch of stone crab claws from Miami Mayor Manny Diaz when the Hurricanes lost the Emerald Bowl to Cal. Which made little sense, considering UM is in Coral Gables and UC Berkeley is in, duh, Berkeley. But why let that stand in the way of cheap publicity? The bet between senators Bill Nelson of Florid
The story for tonight's BCS National Championship game at Dolphin Stadium is twofold: that tickets aren't as hard to come by as in previous years (if you consider $600 tickets to a championship football game a bargain) and that something like 83 percent of gamblers are putting their money on Florida, who are five point favorites at this point.
