Specifically, I need to look for "Auto racing, sports non-event" and key on "sports non" as an exclusion so I don't end up recording the NASCAR shopping channel and the pre-race show etc.
Got it!
First I set up a wish list for just Sports-->Auto Racing, with title keyword "NASCAR". Then I went to "View upcoming programs" and made a list of keywords that defined what I didn't want. In this case, it was "practice", "qualifying", "preseason", "nascar now", "countdown", and "angels". Then I edited the wish list and added those words as exclusions, and deleted the NASCAR title keyword so it was just auto racing. Ran "View upcoming..." again, found I had to exclude a few items from the Title keyword ("3 Wide" and "Raceline") and voila! A clean To-Do list with only the auto racing events I want in it.
Drag Racing and Motorcycle Racing (I am a fan of
any mechanized sport) will be easy, just straight wish lists. It's only the NASCAR listing that has all the extraneous stuff.
tanstaafl.