FOR a sports addict, a visit to ESPN'S 123-acre campus is like mainlining the product. In an industrial workspace connected by an array of cables and satellite dishes to live feeds from all over the world, employees of the channel crowd around monitors at 80 desks and watch games. This is the world's nerve-centre for highlights. The feeds show almost every sporting event that might be of interest, from cricket tests in India to football matches in Brazil to baseball games in Florida. ESPN'S staff watch everything so that viewers don't have to, digitally tagging more than 1,000 of the day's best plays to turn them into consumable clips on TVS, browsers and smartphones.
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