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If Amazon is trying to keep millions of people home on Black Friday to shop from its wares, it might have devised the best way to do it.
Three words: free live sports.
On Friday, Amazon’s Prime Video will broadcast 15 hours of sports, starting with the return of The Skins Game, a golf competition that last teed off in 2008, and ending with an NBA doubleheader filled with superstars, Bucks-Knicks and Mavericks-Lakers.
In between is an NFL game that will command the attention of people in these parts. The 8-3 Bears and the 8-3 Eagles – both first-place teams, the latter the defending Super Bowl champs – will square off before an audience of more than 240 countries and territories.