Regular Jeopardy dates back to the Art Fleming version in 1964 while the Alex Trebek version started in 1984. In the Fall of 2014 Sports Jeopardy debuted on Crackle TV. Players win points as the winnings are limited to $5000 for the champion. I watch it mostly on Saturday mornings on http://www.sportsjeopardy.com . In season one players could only win once, but could come back for a tournament at the end of the season. In season two there is no limit on games won as there is in regular Jeopardy.
Vinny Varadarajan seen above has become the Ken Jennings of Sports Jeopardy as he has now won 11 straight games. He is absolutely awesome as he has won most of his games in runaways. Questions on Sports Jeopardy cover many sports not just baseball, football, basketball, and hockey,
When Vinny is interviewed on the show he is described as an engineering graduate from New Jersey. I thought he could be an alumnus of NJIT. I did a Google search on his name and NJIT and found this site listing 2012 graduates. There is a Vinay Varadarajan from Fords, NJ in the list of graduates. I really think it is him, but I am not 100% right now. I found him on Twitter and sent him a tweet asking if he graduated from NJIT. I just checked his Facebook page and saw that Bryan Sutphen whom I knew at NJIT is one of his Facebook friends. I think indirect evidence says he is an NJIT alumnus.
I have to revise this he just responded to my Tweet and confirmed he is a graduate of NJIT, He remembered that I gave him a Freshman Seminar tour several years ago and that he spent many hours in the Van Houten Library.
Please remember that a new episode of Sports Jeopardy can be seen on Crackle TV every Wednesday.
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Yes! He was my roommate in Redwood freshman year of college. '07-'08. So proud of him.
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