t European at 21st -- and therefore in contention to win the overall title and $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship, which finishes just five days before plays gets under way at Hazeltine.Its certainly motivated me for the next three weeks, thats for sure, Knox said. I have to use this as a spri

NEW YORK -- Dish Network is offering a new skinny bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesnt include ESPN and some other sports channels, giving people who dont care about sports a way to save money on TV without joining the ranks of cord cutters.Sports channels are among the most expensive for cable and satellite TV companies and are usually included in big cable bundles. That drives up the bill for all customers, whether they enjoy watching ball games or not.Dishs new Flex Pack starts at $30 a month, not including fees and taxes, while a big cable bundle typically costs about $90.Dish is not the first cable distributor to sell a smaller basic cable bundle without ESPN, however.Comcast has done so for nearly a decade. And Dishs package is similar to Verizon Fios Custom TV when it launched in April 2015. Verizon also made ESPN (and lots of other channels) add-ons to a smaller cable bundle. Then ESPN sued and other programmers protested. Custom TV was revamped in February to two core bundles, one sports-focused and one not, with fewer options for groups of channels to add.Custom TV has been diluted pretty badly since those changes, said Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson Research. Verizon spokesman Ray McConville says the revised version of Custom TV is more popular and changes were made in response to customer feedback rather than programmer demands. Verizon settled with ESPN in May.Dish has a good relationship with ESPN and let all the programmers know about the new package, said Warren Schlichting, the Englewood, Colorado, companys executive vice president of marketing, programming and media sales. It takes cooperation on both sides, he said.An ESPN spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.Moffett says that if entertainment companies dont fight Dish, other cable and satellite companies are likely to copy it, meaning savings for lots of TV lovers who dont watch sports.The Flex package comes as Dishs satellite TV service has been bleeding customers. The traditional TV industry overall has lost about 2 million customers over the past three years, according to research firm SNL Kagan, as online TV alternatives proliferate.Schlichting said that the new Dish bundle is not aimed at cord cutters, or people who have canceled traditional TV. Neither is it meant to compete with Sling, Dishs internet TV package that starts at $20 a month. But it will compete with Dishs existing, bigger bundles and offerings from cable companies and DirecTV.Dishs Flex package has about 50 popular cable channels, including AMC, home to The Walking Dead; channels that show some sports, like TNT; theres also Food Network, FX, A&E and CNN. There are eight groups of channels customers can add that cost extra. Local networks like ABC and CBS cost $10 (theyre also available over the air free with an antenna). Other add-ons include news, sports and kids channels. A DVR costs more, not signing up for autopay means an extra $5 and of course there are the typical taxes that come with cable. Dish says the price of the original bundle stays the same for 2 years. It wont say what the price will be after that.Its cheaper than Dishs other packages, especially if you get local channels with an antenna. But you have to be fine with missing out on popular channels like college-focused regional sports networks, ESPN, Fox News or Disney Channel. If you wanted just those channels, you would have to add a bunch of additional channel packs that bring the bill to $80, more than Dishs existing bundles. Premium channels like HBO are also extra.And then most households will still want fast internet service, which often costs about $40 and higher by itself. Thats a disadvantage for Dish, because cable companies give discounts when customers pay for both TV and internet together.Schlichting said Dish Network Corp. would consider the Flex packages successful if much lower than a majority of customers choose them. Verizon has said the smaller Custom TV cable bundles make up about 40 percent of Fios TV sales.The more successful these sports-less bundles are, the more I think youll see it replicated by peers, said BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield. Thats not good for ESPN, he said, which has already lost millions of subscribers. 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Russell Knox admits he is desperate to win the FedEx Cup to prove he should have been given a Ryder Cup wildcard.Knox was overlooked by Europe captain Darren Clarke despite missing out on automatic qualifying by a single place and being ranked 20th in the world, comfortably higher than Clarkes choices of Thomas Pieters, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer.The 31-year-old is currently seventh in the FedEx Cup standings on the PGA Tour -- Henrik Stenson is the next highest European at 21st -- and therefore in contention to win the overall title and $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship, which finishes just five days before plays gets under way at Hazeltine.Its certainly motivated me for the next three weeks, thats for sure, Knox said. I have to use this as a springboard to try and win the FedEx Cup. Ive never wanted to prove someone wrong so badly in my life I think.Its not sour grapes or anything. Darren had an extremely difficult decision and all of those three guys were worthy of a pick.When Darren called me it was obvious within one second that is wasnt going to be good news. It was a very short phone call. I didnt feel like I needed to ask any questions or give my opinion on anything. It was obvious that he had made up his mind and that was final. I respected his decision.I was very disappointed not have gotten the nod. But Ill use this as motivation over the next three weeks.Clarke admitted he had wanted Knox to play in the Wyndham Championship a fortnight ago to try to qualify, but that Knox wanted to be fresh for the FedEx Cup.I hope the decision not to play Wyndham ultimately had nothing to do with it, maybe it did, but Im sure no one will ever talk about that, Knox added. Im happy with the decision I made, I felt it was the best one for me and I dont think it would have made a difference anyway.Its going to be difficult for me to watch [the Ryder Cup] but I probably will and Ill be rooting foor the team of course.dddddddddddd I wish them all the best and hope they win.Of course I feel like I deserve to be there and should be playing but Im not, so I have to respect the decision thats been made.Every year theres a guy in my position that doesnt get picked and its a story right now, but in a couple of weeks time when it all starts, Im sure itll be forgotten that Im not in the team.Clarke revealed he had suffered sleepless nights over his decision but ultimately found it impossible to leave Pieters off the team after the 24-year-old finished fourth in the Olympics and second in the defence of his Czech Masters title the following week, before winning in Denmark on Sunday.That call to Russell was as hard a phone call as Ive ever had to make in golfing terms, added Clarke, who played with Pieters for the first two rounds in Denmark and saw him shoot a 62 on Thursday.Partly because I knew how much of a disappointment it would be, because in 2008, I won two weeks before the qualifying finished and it was my second win of the year and I didnt get a pick. So I know how much I was hurting at that stage.With five rookies qualifying automatically, albeit one of them being Masters champion Danny Willett, Clarke had made no secret of wanting to balance the team with experienced players.But the 48-year-old insisted Westwood had not been selected because of the pairs longstanding friendship, adding: I selected him because he brings something that no one else can bring to the Ryder Cup. This is his 10th one.He will be somewhat like the general amongst the team. Anything he says, everybody sits up and listens.Yes, we have six rookies and yes, its not like any other tournament. But the experienced guys will do what we do in the European way by looking after the first-time guys. ' ' '