Bob Wolff, Washington’s pioneer television sportscaster, witnessed and reported all of that bad baseball. As a permanent scar of sorts, he remembers most of it. “I would never say, ‘Well, the Senators are leading, 12-1. It looks like a good day for them,’ because there were still two more innings to …
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Out on the court, the principals would be Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin. And over in the WTTG-TV-5 broadcasting both, Rich Chvotkin and Bernie Smilovitz. Rich Chvotkin and Bernie Smilovitz? Certainly one of the broadcasting’s most bizarre combos, if in name only. (Better they be broadcasters than partners in a law …
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 …
