Only $500?

Don't get discouraged. Just get someone at ESPN to buy into the idea that it's a sport (or, rather, an event that can be marketed), and they'll media-blitz the rest of America with its virtues:

The 12th annual U.S. Marbles Championship tournament in Maryland has a new 20-year-old winner, but only half the normal number of flickers turned up to compete.

Top prize in Sunday's competition was $500, but instead of about the usual 40 entrants, only about half showed up in Frederick County, Md., 45 miles northwest of Washington.

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