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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Cricket, Anyone?

    Baseball season is kicking off in earnest this week, and the Connecticut men’s basketball team sealed up the National Championship last night. So, it may have struck some as strange that on Sunday morning, the folks at ESPN chose to broadcast a live cricket match instead of an episode of Sportscenter on ESPN2.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 10, 2014 • 1 min read

    Baseball season is kicking off in earnest this week, and the Connecticut men’s basketball team sealed up the National Championship last night. So, it may have struck some as strange that on Sunday morning, the folks at ESPN chose to broadcast a live cricket match instead of an episode of Sportscenter on ESPN2. Was it a first step for the network in trying to popularize cricket in North America?

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    The full episode

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    Mexican Heroin, Afterlives of Musicians, and LA Theater
    1. 0:00More Ukrainian Unrest?
    2. 8:07Mexican Poppies
    3. 16:30The State of L.A. Theater
    4. 25:10The Afterlives of Musicians
    5. 40:07Cricket, Anyone?You’re reading this
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