The St Louis Cardinals franchise is among the most storied in the game of baseball, with 11 world championships ranking only second behind the Yankees.
Meanwhile, Walt Disney's ESPN had been airing dull, static broadcasts of theWorld Series of Poker, thestoried tournament started by Las Vegas casino owner Jack Binion in 1970.
One of the longest and bitterest battles the art world has ever seen the fight over the future of Philadelphia's storied Barnes Foundation collection has, for now, anyway, come to an end with the opening of the superb new facility on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.