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Who would you guess watches more sports on TV-a man whose wife is not a fan or a man whose wife shares his interest? If you picked the latter, that answer probably speaks better for the state of your own marriage than for your understanding of people. In a study by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal and Goldhaber Research and Associates, avid sports fans whose wives are also fans said they watch 7.7 hours per week of TV sports. By contrast, men whose wives are not fans watch 10.6 hours per week. One is driven to the sorry but unsurprising conclusion that husbands watch sports in order to Ignore their wives. As the magazine states the matter, "the football widow phenomenon is alive and well."