ESPN's The Ocho Is Back, This Time With Cornhole and Chess Boxing

Returning for its second year, it'll be sponsored by KFC

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It’s been more than a decade since Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story hit theaters in 2004. But the fake sports channel imagined in the Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller “classic,” is coming back to ESPN this year for the second time.

The fake sports show in the movie was called ESPN 8 The Ocho and coined phrases from broadcasters Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks (who were played by actors Gary Cole and Jason Bateman), such as, “They’re definitely not on the court, Cotton.

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