February 13, 2012
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    By Max J. Dickstein

    Column: What we’re not watching

    Photo credit: Game Face

    McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton won the F1 title last year. Few Americans know that. (Source: Getty Images)

    By Max J. Dickstein

    Each Thursday before I write this column, I sift through the weekend’s TV sports offerings, select several and then relay the schedule to amNewYork readers.

    But in these heady days of early spring, there is such a morass of sports activity that the mind unspools at the task of sorting through all of that entertainment on offer.

    March Madness in the NCAA, regular-season stretch runs in the NBA and NHL, the wrapup of MLB spring training: the mind truly reels.

    And yet as I prioritize mainstream American interests, I am aware that other items get short shrift. Here is some of that overlooked programming.Australian Grand Prix: Formula One

    SPEED Sun., 1:30 a.m.

    This high-finance sport, beginning its 60th season, inspires deep, worldwide passion — minus every American but my father, a lifelong Ferrari fan.

    I find that watching the races can be numbingly repetitive, but the sound? Tremendous. Sirius XM Radio is broadcasting all 17 bi-weekly F1 events live this season. Ask your cabbie to tune in to the roaring in Melbourne on the drive home Saturday night and try to differentiate the sound of his overtaxed engine from those of the $50 million race cars.

    Hunt for Big Fish with Larry Dahlberg

    VERSUS Friday, 11 p.m.

    My cognitive powers suggest that viewers of this program are not required to join Dahlberg on the hunt, as his show’s commanding name implies. But considering that Dahlberg is a Hall of Fame fisherman whose show has run successfully since 1992, I’d imagine that his loyal viewers would enjoy a spin in his fishing boat (if boats are involved; I have not seen the show).

    A.M. Raw

    USA Sun., 1 a.m.

    As WWE prepares for WrestleMania XXV on April 5, I’m focused on a wrestler named Batista whose real name is Dave Batista. That’s cool. Batista is out with a torn hamstring, though. Maybe there’s a wrestler named Dave.

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