The NFL draft officially ends the coverage of sports I usually care about watching.  Shortly thereafter, most of the regular tv shows have their finales and go on break for the summer. The end result is normally a severe lack of compelling television content.  I don’t watch all that much television anyway but I’ve found myself watching random sporting events, including bits and pieces of the NBA playoffs, NASCAR, golf, ping pong, tennis.  I even went to a baseball game (though I would have to be extremely bored to sit through a game on tv).   The lack of decent tv coverage of soccer is particularly galling during the summer as that would certainly fill in nicely.  That said, the most captivating thing I’ve watched so far is the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee.  I can’t even fully explain it beyond that it’s nice to see kids idolized for being smart.  Not to mention the coolest kid I’ve ever seen in Kennyi Aouad:

I’m a convert. On the recommendation of a friend after conveying how obsessed I was about the Spelling Bee, I added Spellbound to my Netflix queue. Supposedly, it’s Wordplay for spelling bees and if so, I’m sold.