Steve Nidetz

Now that the Olympics thing is out of the way, NBC Sports executives can concentrate on something really important-like the announcers on its Notre Dame football telecasts. For the third...

Clear the decks for the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth by network executives this week when the International Olympic Committee and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games...

Jim Lampley, the one-time Boy Wonder of ABC Sports, was officially annointed Thursday as new host of NBC's "NFL Live," joining Mike Ditka as the second newcomer on the program....

Thoughts while wondering why I wasn't invited to the Planet Hollywood opening: - WSCR radio officials say the latest Federal Communications Commission ruling on their application for a 24-hour license...

In the game of cable-channel poker, ESPN has seen Prime SportsChannel's bid for a second network-and raised it. The scheduled launch of ESPN2, originally set for Nov. 2, has been...

Now that the CBS baseball package is winding toward its last All-Star Game, play-by-play man Sean McDonough and analyst Tim McCarver can reveal this secret: The All-Star Game, for all...

ESPN2 won't be the only new sports channel jockeying for space on your cable dial this fall. NewSport, a 24-hour sports news and information service produced by the newly merged...

White Sox telecaster Ken Harrelson is as outspoken as his North Side counterpart. He's as flamboyant. And he can reel off the names of almost as many saloonkeepers and restaurant...

What seemed an innocent question to Dick Enberg earlier this week as to why interest has decreased in NBC's "Breakfast at Wimbledon" tennis weekend evidently struck a nerve. The usually...

Compared to the National Football League draft telecast, production of the National Basketball Association draft Wednesday night should be . . . well . . . a breeze. After all,...