ESPN is bringing back ‘The Ocho’ on Sunday to fill the void in sports fans’ lives
Sports fans probably wouldn’t mind having a real ESPN8: The Ocho in their lives right now.
That was a great gag from the movie, “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” in which the “The Ocho” says: “Bringing you the finest in seldom-seen sports from around the globe since 1999. If it’s almost a sport, we’ve got it here.”
With no live sports being broadcast in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, fans are watching old sporting events when they can.
To help fill the void, ESPN announced Thursday it was bumping up the day it usually gives a nod to “Dodgeball” by turning ESPN2 into “The Ocho” this Sunday. That had happened on Aug. 8 (8/8) in the past.
Here is what ESPN wrote in a news release: “No, it’s not the eighth of August, or the eighth of anything or even August at all. That is the magic ESPN8: The Ocho. There is always a place for a full 24-hours of seldom seen sports so Sunday, March 22 on ESPN2 will be just that, a full day of exciting content from Ocho stunts past.”
Some of the “events” to be televised include (with descriptions were needed):
- 2019 Spikeball College Championship
- World Axe Throwing League
- The Stone Skipping Championship
- 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs: Participants and spectators are marbles in these races.
- 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships: Competitors are timed as they stack specially designed cups in predetermined sequences.
Here is the full schedule:
11 p.m. (Sat): ACL Cornhole Championships: 2020 kickoff battle
1 a.m.: World Axe Throwing League: 2019 World Championship
3 a.m.: U.S. Open Ultimate Championships
5 a.m.: 2019 Spikeball College Championship
6 a.m.: 2019 Las Vegas Highland Games
6:30 a.m.: Putt Putt Championships
7 a.m.: 2019 IDEAL Electricians National Championship
8 a.m.: E:60 as part of The Ocho
8:30 a.m.: 51st National Stone Skipping Competition
9:30 a.m.: 2007 World Sport Stacking Championships
10:30 a.m.: 2019 World Sign Spinning Championship
11 a.m.: 2006 Hamburger Eating Contest
Noon: 2006 Brat Eating Contest
1 p.m.: European TramDriver Championship
2 p.m.: 2019 Stupid Robot Fighting League
2:30 p.m.: 46th Annual Cherry Pit Spitting Championship
3 p.m.: Professional Arm Wrestling Championships
3:30 p.m.: 2019 Golden Tee World Championship
4 p.m.: 2018 Classic Tetris World Championship
4:30 p.m.: E:60 on ESPN8
5:30 p.m.: America’s Dodgeball Continental Cup: USA vs. Canada
6:30 p.m.: 2019 Jelle’s Marble Runs
7 p.m.: Slippery Stairs: College Tour
7:30 p.m.: 2019 Death Diving World Championship
8:30 p.m.: Dodge Juggle 3
9:30 p.m.: Moxie Games 3
It’s also a good reason to show the “Dodgeball” clip of ESPN8:
