Players’ Salaries Could Average $1 Million NBC Sports agreed yesterday on a four-year, $600 million contract to televise NBA games beginning next season, snatching the package from longtime carrier CBS and continuing the recent vast escalation in sports rights fees. The $150-million-a-year price tag marks about a 340 percent increase over …
They finally pulled the plug on me. First the cable goons came by and said I hadn’t paid the bill; guilty as charged—I pointed out that there never was anything on cable worth paying for. Then my old college lit professor came by and said I hadn’t read a book since Super Bowl …
“I don’t think we’ll see pay-per-view, at least while I’m the commissioner, unless I stay 30 years like Pete Rozelle, which I don’t think I’ll do.” — Paul Tagliabue on ABC Monday night. Sooner or later—maybe even while Paul Tagliabue is commissioner—the NFL will embrace pay-per-view. It will be …
Recently the networks asked if I would rate their play-by-play broadcasters, because I’m a regular guy. They said they would pay me $25. I said I would do it for free. I compared the major broadcasters (excluding those who have been doing network play-by-play for less than two years). Announcers were …
Gerald Riggs fumbled a bit past 4:15 EDT Sunday. Through the magic of television, he fumbled again on CBS at 4:17, twice at 4:18 and at 4:19. Later that evening, he kept fumbling, nearly two dozen times on Channels 4, 5, 7 and 9. He fumbled on all of the Baltimore news stations, …
In the latest episode of “Rich Man, Richer Man,” one group of wealthy sports folks the NFL, NBA PGA, NCAA, “Hey, we no longer can foot all of your bills, in other words, stop feeding those pampered athletes gourmet TV dinners at our expense.” For the past 18 months, CBS executive …
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But as ridiculous as it may sound, “CBS Sports Inside Out” is something the whole family ought to watch. If you don’t have a family, might be worth starting one just to watch the show. “Inside Out” debuts on Father’s Day at 5:30 p.m. and returns three times in July. It’s …
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Sports anthology shows are the networks curious collection of Olympic-style events, bizarre competitions and junkyard sports, Boxing and bicycling, swimming and skating, track and triathlons, motor sports and marathons. Twenty-five years ago, ABC launched “Wide World Sports,” and its highly successful format—giving us a little of this and a little of …
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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