![]() ![]() Comes up quite a lot to cover unstageable events - sometimes, these days, with the actors facing straight at the audience as if it's happening on the fourth wall.Spencer scored his maximum in the second frame of his quarter-final, while the TV crew were on a break. Unfortunately, while the tournament was televised, it was generally only the later stages of each match. The first maximum break in a televised snooker tournament was made by John Spencer at the Holstein International in 1978.The same goes for many of the greats of the Negro Leagues. We'll never really know how good his best actually was. By the time the Major Leagues started integrating he was still a good pitcher but past his prime years. However, he spent the bulk of his prime years in the Negro Leagues with spotty record keeping and no press coverage. Leroy "Satchel" Paige may have been one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time.During the Evo 2010 Super Street Fighter IV grand final match, the online stream, being watched by over 27,000 people at the time, went out.Less than a minute later it cuts back in to the action. ITV accidentally start rolling the adverts scheduled for half time. The crowd are on the edge of their seats, England has the ball and are soaring upfield as if unopposed. All around the country fans gather in pubs, homes and at parties. Overtime was shunted to Versus, an upstart cable channel which few providers carried, in favor of an hour of pre-race coverage of The Preakness Stakes. But oops! the game was on NBC, which still hadn't learned its lesson. The game went into overtime as both goalies were red hot that day. In 2007, bitter rivals Buffalo and Ottawa were meeting in the NHL playoffs.This has been ranked as the fifth worst television blunder of all time and has led to sports matches generally being ordered to preempt anything else if they run late (to the ire of non-sports fans). No one on the East coast got to see Oakland's comeback. Executives tried to preempt this, but they couldn't reach operations. And then Oakland scores two touchdowns in the time left, beating the Jets 43 to 32. And NBC cuts the game off to start showing Heidi, a children's movie. Fans across the country are on the edge of their seats. The New York Jets are beating the Oakland Raiders 32 to 29 with 65 seconds left in a critical late-season game. ![]()
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