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updated 10
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Notes
& Quotes Part 2
Summarizing
The Weekend That Was In Sports Media
By George Stahl and Randy
Williams
Random
musings about what we've seen and heard from our seats on the couch
as television viewers are treated to wall-to-wall basketball this
weekend. If you see or hear something we've missed, please
tell us on the Speak Out page
or via e-mail ...
ESPN's
version of 60 minutes
ESPN recently doubled the length of ESPN Magazine's
The Sports Reporters to one hour, and AQB welcomes it. The
Sports Reporters, usually one of the more well-versed sports
shows, can
now devote more time to each subject and more subjects to each show.
But
we only want the extra 30 minutes if the show is going to use it
for debate, not for reruns.
Sunday,
The Sports Reporters wasted nearly 10 minutes of debate time
by replaying part of the SportsCentury show about Chris Evert
as a lead-in to a discussion on the greatest rivalries in sports
history. (Are ratings that poor for SportsCentury, an excellent
series so far, that ESPN has to show it on other shows?)
Dick
Schaap, host of The Sports Reporters, easily could have summed
up the Evert piece about her relationship with Martina Navratilova
in less than a minute and used the rest of the time for debate.
That
would have been preferable.
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What
we saw and heard...
Pulling
a Fox:
TNT showed Steve James, producer of TNT's Sunday movie Passing
Glory, who was sitting in an area usually reserved for Jack
Nicholson, Dyan Cannon and Arsenio Hall. Announcer Dick Stockton
then discussed how the movie has received great reviews. Check
back early this week for AQB's opinion.
Good hustle:
Nice job by Fox Sports News to show Roger Clemens' press conference
live from the Yankees' Tampa headquarters Saturday morning.
Good
lines:
1. "The Redskins once proved that they could win the
Super Bowl with any quarterback, now [with the recent trade for
Brad Johnson] they are trying to prove that they can lose with any
quarterback," Dick Schaap said on the The Sports Reporters.
2. "George [Foreman] doesn't trust anyone until they
hit 40." Jim Lampley said after the former heavyweight champion
claimed that the 26-year-old Felix Trinidad might be hurt by his
youth and inexperience in his fight Saturday night against Pernell
Whitaker. Trinidad won a unanimous decision.
3. "I want to see [retiring Iowa coach Tom Davis] go
as far as he can [in the NCAA tournament], unless he faces us,"
Auburn coach Cliff Ellis said Sunday on ABC.
4. Bob Ryan, in trying to make the point that it is easier
to predict a good season for Roger Clemens than for David Wells,
said
on the The Sports Reporters
that with Wells, one has to worry about him falling
off a bar stool. To which, Lupica responded, "How many times
do we worry about that with Dick [Schaap] each week?"
Good
shots:
1. CBS at the Nissan Open showed a close-up Saturday of Tom
Tryba's club digging too deep into the ground, costing him a chance
at tying the PGA-record of shooting a 59 for one round.
Nice
exchange:
When CBS golf announcer David Feherty asked partner Ken Venturi
about winning the Nissan Open, Venturi said he had "but before
you were born." Feherty, though, corrected him by saying that
Venturi won the tournament in 1959, the year after he was born.
What
does that mean?:
"One is an apple; the other's an orange. Both are delicious,"
George Foreman said while speculating on a possible welterweight
clash between Oscar De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad.
Hello,
McFly:
1. After Virginia's near upset of North Carolina Saturday, an
ABC camera focused on a fan with a sign that read "Brendan
Haywood: Ya' Blow Me." Very nice work, ABC.
2. Nearly two minutes expired in the second half of ESPN2's
Duke-Clemson telecast before the on-screen scoreboard was changed
to show the game was in the second stanza. The scorebox read "Halftime"
until the error was changed.
3. What was Jim Kelly doing at Saturday's GTE Classic when he
talked about how senior golfer Larry Laoretti started smoking cigars
at age 17? Kelly's partner then chimed in with the very interesting
fact that Laoretti smokes about 4,000 stogies a year. Later, Kelly
said Laoretti's round Friday included "a lot of stogies and
no bogies." Very cute. Get with it guys!
Things that make you go hmm:
1. "[David Robinson] plays basketball because he's good
at it. He doesn't play basketball because he loves it," NBC's
Doc Rivers said.
2. Laker guard Eddie Jones "plays the passing lanes as
well as any guard in the league," TNT's Hubie Brown said Friday.
3. Don Criqui, long known as an NFL announcer with NBC, broadcast
the game between St. John's and Georgetown on ESPN-Plus Saturday
with Bob Wenzel.
4. ESPN Classic, which has been televising "Superstars"
competitions this week, showed a 1975 episode hosted by Keith Jackson
with O.J. Simpson the ace reporter.
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