If Bud Greenspan worked for ABC Sports, which is about as likely as Sylvester Stallone making English-language films, the network of the Olympics might actually cover them as well as they promote them. “I could never make it at the network,” said Greenspan, who describes commercial sports television as “an industry …
For the past generation, Cosell has shadowed, sometimes overshadowed, the American sports scene for ABC. As a broadcast journalist, he has had no equal in sports. While most easily linked to Muhammad Ali, boxing and “Monday Night Football,” Cosell’s indelible mark on the sports landscape has been established by his singular pursuit of …
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Fortunately, if not surprisingly, ABC and ESPN are refusing to participate directly in the USFL’s reactionary future vision. “Our policy remains the same: we will provide a line feed into the press box as we always have. Nothing more,” said Scotty Connal, ESPN’s executive vice president. “we’re there to televise the …
When Jim Lampley preceded a live interview with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle by telling us about the recent charity work award Rozelle received, you knew we were in trouble. And when a camera zoomed in for a closeup of the silver medallion President Reagan had just flipped can you imagine the …
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Sugar Ray Leonard has re-retired, costing the sport its biggest attraction. Marvin Hagler can wear handcuffs and still kayo anyone in the middleweight division. Gerry Cooney cancels more fights than Billy Martin stars. Carlos de Leon and Osvaldo Ocaslo are champions of the so-called cruiser-weight division, boxing’s 195-pound wasteland for heavyweights on a …
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