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Look! Up in the sky. Its a bird. Its a plane.No, its a drone, able to zoom at breakneck speeds through a complex three-dimensional obstacle course. And its coming to your living room.In its latest foray into non-athletic sports -- does the name Chris Moneymaker ring a bell? -- ESPN has reached an agreement to broadcast the Drone Racing League (DRL) season. An introduction to drone racing will air Thursday night on ESPN2 and competition begins Oct. 23.Its must-watch TV, Matt Volk, director, programming and acquisitions at ESPN, said Wednesday. Were always exploring ways to deliver quality and exciting content. We see this as being an emerging sport with an emerging audience. Were excited to see how it does, but we feel good about its growth potential.Sky, which broadcasts to the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 7Sports, a sports business cluster in Germany, also will air 10 one-hour episodes of the five-race 2016 DRL season, including a winner-take-all world championship Nov. 20.Drone racing is simply the latest so-called extreme sport in this digital age, and ESPN and the DRL are banking on the rising popularity of the craft worldwide.We dont come with a built-in audience. Theres no hiding that, Drone Racing League CEO Nick Horbaczewski said. They see a long-term opportunity here. They know how engaging the content is. Its very attractive for a younger audience. The reaction is something very visceral for people.Theres a huge emergence going on right now of people who fly drones. This sport is all about that.Horbaczewski, who founded the DSL a little over a year ago, said drone racing has all the elements of auto racing and likens it to a real-life video game with a real scientific element to it.The tiny craft used by the DSL will be unlike the more than one million consumer drones out there buzzing around. They will be custom built by the DRL so that all are identical with the same power output. That means all pilots will be racing on a fair playing field, and they will be doing the actual flying -- not some pre-programmed GPS system.We want it to be a test of pilot skill rather than drone design, Horbaczewski said.Among those behind the controls once the season starts likely wont be that hot-shot kid next door who buzzes the treetops in the neighborhood. The DSL will select just 12 elite pilots from around the world. The winner of the championship will receive a contract to be a full-time professional pilot in the league next year with a salary.We find incredibly talented pilots, people who are very, very good at flying drones, Horbaczewski said. But sometimes they just cant manage their nerves. Theyre not a performance athlete. People who are emerging are real performance athletes who can perform under pressure.Each event will include a series of races around complicated aerobatic race courses over two days in a bracket-style elimination format. Heats will be one to two minutes long, and fans who tune in likely will enjoy them. Horbaczewski says about half the drones crash every heat, and onboard cameras will offer a birds-eye view of the action.You get a real rush, he said. Its a weird mix of the NFL and Formula One. You get that motor racing appeal.Without the human trauma.The amount of the carnage that goes on when youre slamming into walls at 80 mph when you miss a turn -- its exciting, Horbaczewski said. But theres no moral hazard like there is when theres a crash in an auto race.So far, drone racings Jeff Gordon has not surfaced. Whoever emerges as this years champion promises to be someone of that mold, though.This sport is exhausting for the pilots, Horbaczewski said. We only run a certain number of races because we cant push them beyond a certain point. It is physically and brain-powerwise a very intense sport. It takes unbelievable concentration and physical discipline. Its not totally non-athletic.Motor sports in America have been struggling to attract younger fans. The DSL is hoping to buck that trend.Our audience we know is younger, Horbaczewski said. I love Formula One, but watching the Monaco Grand Prix came down to one pit stop and one pass.Still, drone racing on TV?No way! 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Ever since McIlroy found himself in danger of missing the cut midway through his round Friday, that player may have finally returned. McIlroy shot a 3-under 67 in tougher conditions Saturday to lift himself to the edge of contention. He was tied for seventh, six strokes behind leader Jim Furyk, heading into the final round. "It was good to feel the sort of rush again," he said. If he can feel it again Sunday, perhaps this will be the week that snaps him out of a seasons worth of doldrums. Through 11 holes of his second round, McIlroy was 4 over for the tournament. The cut wound up at 3 over. Since then, he has played 25 holes in 7 under. McIlroy was at 1 under for the tournament when he stepped up to the 17th tee Saturday. The final two holes have been the toughest to birdie at Oak Hill this week, but he did it at both, sinking a long putt on No. 17. "I probably made up at least 3, 3 1/2 shots on those last two holes," McIlroy said. "Making a birdie on 17 is like an eagle," he added, "and thhen to follow it up with another on the last is even better.dddddddddddd" Coming into the day, he did what he always does when he finds himself in a similar situation: He reminisced about Quail Hollow in 2010. McIlroy was two shots over the cut line with three holes to play in the second round when he made an eagle to stick around for the weekend. Then he shot 66-62 over the last two days for his first PGA Tour victory. "It gives me a bit of confidence knowing that Ive been in that position before and Ive been able to win," McIlroy said. "I know this is a major championship and its a bit different, but I felt good enough about my game that I could go out there and post a good one today and at least give myself a chance going into tomorrow." He has yet to win in 2013 and shot just one round below 70 in his first three majors of the year. Two days after he appeared headed toward missing the cut at the second straight major, he has an outside chance at winning his third. "To play like that on this golf course and do what I needed to do yesterday just to make the cut, and then to go out and play the way I did today, its been a good stretch of holes," McIlroy said. "Ive got another 18 to play, and hopefully I can just keep playing the way I am." ' ' '