ESPN, which is available to all cable subscribers and EchoStar customers, schedules a massive number of primetime games each year, supplemented by the Fox Network's schedule of Saturday-afternoon contests.
The 29-year-old's quiet dedication to his craft the taxing training schedule, the rigors of contest after contest is almost monklike.
The ever-accelerating schedule of primary and caucus contests means that raising money, the tiger's milk of political success, must begin earlier too, even at the risk of the public's becoming more jaded than ever.
Should the regatta require the maximum number of contests, Race 9 is scheduled for Saturday, March 1.
That would, of course, force Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina to schedule earlier contests so that they can remain at the front of the pack.
It includes the multiple Grade I winner Point of Entry, the Virginia Derby winner Air Support, and Imaging, who is scheduled to contest the Dixie Stakes on the undercard of the Preakness Stakes next Saturday.
On Wednesday, the dispute will reach a climax of sorts: Wal-Mart's lawyers are scheduled to contest the fine before a federal appeals commission.
Such "front-loading" of primaries and caucuses continued during the 1990s, prompting Iowa and New Hampshire to schedule their contests even earlier, in January, and causing the Democratic Party to adopt rules to protect the privileged status of the two states.
But the campaign is harvesting record amounts of money, seeded by the front-loading of the primary schedule with major contests in the first six weeks of the year, watered by the willingness of candidates and party machines to ignore the spirit of the law, and fertilized by the bottom lines of television companies.
He could be back Wednesday since Bernard Tomic and his fellow Australian Lleyton Hewitt are scheduled to contest their first-round doubles match, which was pushed back a day because of rain.
