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Look! Up in the sky. Its a bird. Its a plane.No, its a drone, able to zoom at breakneck speeds through a complex three-dimensional obstacle course. And its coming to your living room.In its latest foray into non-athletic sports -- does the name Chris Moneymaker ring a bell? -- ESPN has reached an agreement to broadcast the Drone Racing League (DRL) season. An introduction to drone racing will air Thursday night on ESPN2 and competition begins Oct. 23.Its must-watch TV, Matt Volk, director, programming and acquisitions at ESPN, said Wednesday. Were always exploring ways to deliver quality and exciting content. We see this as being an emerging sport with an emerging audience. Were excited to see how it does, but we feel good about its growth potential.Sky, which broadcasts to the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 7Sports, a sports business cluster in Germany, also will air 10 one-hour episodes of the five-race 2016 DRL season, including a winner-take-all world championship Nov. 20.Drone racing is simply the latest so-called extreme sport in this digital age, and ESPN and the DRL are banking on the rising popularity of the craft worldwide.We dont come with a built-in audience. Theres no hiding that, Drone Racing League CEO Nick Horbaczewski said. They see a long-term opportunity here. They know how engaging the content is. Its very attractive for a younger audience. The reaction is something very visceral for people.Theres a huge emergence going on right now of people who fly drones. This sport is all about that.Horbaczewski, who founded the DSL a little over a year ago, said drone racing has all the elements of auto racing and likens it to a real-life video game with a real scientific element to it.The tiny craft used by the DSL will be unlike the more than one million consumer drones out there buzzing around. They will be custom built by the DRL so that all are identical with the same power output. That means all pilots will be racing on a fair playing field, and they will be doing the actual flying -- not some pre-programmed GPS system.We want it to be a test of pilot skill rather than drone design, Horbaczewski said.Among those behind the controls once the season starts likely wont be that hot-shot kid next door who buzzes the treetops in the neighborhood. The DSL will select just 12 elite pilots from around the world. The winner of the championship will receive a contract to be a full-time professional pilot in the league next year with a salary.We find incredibly talented pilots, people who are very, very good at flying drones, Horbaczewski said. But sometimes they just cant manage their nerves. Theyre not a performance athlete. People who are emerging are real performance athletes who can perform under pressure.Each event will include a series of races around complicated aerobatic race courses over two days in a bracket-style elimination format. Heats will be one to two minutes long, and fans who tune in likely will enjoy them. Horbaczewski says about half the drones crash every heat, and onboard cameras will offer a birds-eye view of the action.You get a real rush, he said. Its a weird mix of the NFL and Formula One. You get that motor racing appeal.Without the human trauma.The amount of the carnage that goes on when youre slamming into walls at 80 mph when you miss a turn -- its exciting, Horbaczewski said. But theres no moral hazard like there is when theres a crash in an auto race.So far, drone racings Jeff Gordon has not surfaced. Whoever emerges as this years champion promises to be someone of that mold, though.This sport is exhausting for the pilots, Horbaczewski said. We only run a certain number of races because we cant push them beyond a certain point. It is physically and brain-powerwise a very intense sport. It takes unbelievable concentration and physical discipline. Its not totally non-athletic.Motor sports in America have been struggling to attract younger fans. The DSL is hoping to buck that trend.Our audience we know is younger, Horbaczewski said. I love Formula One, but watching the Monaco Grand Prix came down to one pit stop and one pass.Still, drone racing on TV?No way! Ive been trying to get them to broadcast what we do for 30 years. Theyre not interested, said 67-year-old Gene Soucy, a champion aerobatic pilot. I know why its going to work and why what we do doesnt. The average guy can go out and buy a drone and anybody can fly one.---Follow Kekis on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Greek1947Marquese Chriss Jersey . -- Ryan Getzlaf grabbed the three pucks wrapped in tape and held them up to his chest in the Anaheim Ducks dressing room for a celebration nine seasons in the making. Robert Horry Jersey . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. But underneath the professional exterior he was, and is, compellingly human. https://www.rocketsrookiesshop.com/Ryan-Anderson-City-Edition-Jersey/ . Ivanovic was leading 7-5, 1-0 when Hantuchova withdrew after falling 0-40 behind in the second game. 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The idea was first put forward publically by Red Bull team boss Christian Horner last year and gained momentum earlier this season when F1 was struggling to finalise its new rules for 2017.Brawns last position in the sport was as Mercedes team principal, but he was edged out of the role by the arrival of Wolff, Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda and current technical boss Paddy Lowe. In his recently published book, Total Competition, Brawn wrote that he could not trust Wolff and Lauda and decided to leave following the appointment of Lowe in 2013.Despite Brawns recent comments, Wolff insists the relationship is still good with his former colleague and said he would happily welcome him back to F1.First of all, there was a lot of controversy around the book he has written, but ssuccess and transition is never easy and it is a delicate matter, Wolff said.ddddddddddddSo for me this is no problem and actually we have been in touch and he has said some quite nice things about us not dropping the ball, and the relationship is intact.Ross is hugely experienced and has the right personality and technical knowledge to potentially play a big part in Formula One going forward. He has been there forever and he has the right distance from being away for a couple of years. 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