No X Games in primetime for Canadians

This past weekend featured the biggest thrills and spills someone can expect to see in the sports of skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling. Top athletes flocked from around the world to the sunshine of Aspen, Colo. to compete in the Winter X Games. While there are lots of stories including Simon Dumont failing to top Tanner Hall in the men's skiing Superpipe once again, Lindsey Jacobellis falling again when in the lead of of the women's boardercross, and disabled monoskiers flying down the skiercross course, the one I want to discuss is me watching the thrills and spills on a two-inch part of my computer screen instead of my nice 27-inch flatscreen TV at home. The X Games, both summer and winter are an invention of ESPN and shown during primetime on that station. Being in Canada prevents us from watching ESPN and therefore we are forced to watch the events online. But if you were going to turn on the TV to sister Canadian station TSN, you would get a plethora of highlights from around the NHL. Why TSN doesn't broadcast more X Games action is hard for me to say. Maybe Canadians are so involved with hockey that we fail to see what is going on in other sports? Maybe Canadians don't want to watch different sports that are outside the traditional main idea of sports? Either way, this is one person who would like to watch more skiing action on TV.