Stanley Cup Final loses in the TV Ratings war to....softball

[jmcclain19]

Wow - how the mighty have fallen

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/colum...tand-nba_x.htm

Invisible TV: OLN averaged 611,000 households for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Monday. That's fewer households than ESPN2 drew for an Arizona-Northwestern college women's softball game Monday night. It is 39% fewer households than ESPN drew for the Stanley Cup series opener two years ago.

And, it's probably fewer households than will check out this column — although, to be fair, it's indisputable that Monday's NHL Cup game drew far more ticketholders than the creation of this copy.