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ESPN Radio broadcast a podcast called "Roque" on Friday August 27th under the genre of sports. Roque, a variation of lawn croquet, took the place of croquet in the 3rd Olympics and is now extinct but for the small town of Angelica, NY. Played in the town since at least the 1800's, the game is played on a sport-specific pitch in the middle of town where a tournament is held every summer to keep the game alive. Women are not encouraged to play as a leftover tradition from when the sport was first played. "In the 1904 Olympics when Roque was on the program for the only time, so was tug-of-war," said Jeremy Schaap of ESPN.

Well, it finally had to get done, the movie we have all been waiting for. NY Film Festival 2010 highlighting the birth of Facebook.

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WNYC Radio - Sound Check Show. Date Broadcasted: January 11 2011. Genre: Music. New York Times chief classical music critic AnthoNY Tommasini recently embarked on an ambitious project … to compile a list of the 10 greatest composers in the history of classical music. He joins us to talk about the criteria he's using -- and about the risks and rewards of creating such a list.