Steve Nidetz

The scene was mind-boggling, something out of "Front Page." As the Phoenix Suns skipped down the Stadium stairs toward their locker room after last Friday night's game, they were greeted...

Between the national Nielsen ratings for Friday night's Game 5 of the NBA Finals and the overnight ratings for Sunday night's Game 6, NBC officials expect the series to finish...

Perhaps unintentionally, WMAQ-Ch. 5 set the tone for the NBA Finals when it dubbed its local pregame shows "3 the Hard Way." But there was nothing unintentional about NBC's telecast...

When NBC first made its $600 million deal three years ago with the National Basketball Association, some critics chuckled at the network for overspending. Especially for a league that less...

Wednesday night's NBC telecast of the Bulls-Knicks playoff game was the second-highest rated non-Finals contest in NBA history. The game at Madison Square Garden had a 15.6 national Nielsen rating...

Marv Albert, who should know, doesn't hold out much hope for the New York Knicks in their NBA Eastern Conference finals now that the Bulls have regained the home-court edge...

Nobody is happier the National Hockey League is back on ESPN than analyst Bill Clement. The former Flyer, who works his seventh straight Stanley Cup finals starting Tuesday night, spent...

OK, I chickened out. I wasn't going to write about the Bulls, figuring by the time you got this far back in the section, you'd kind of had your fill....

Little was new about NBC's telecast of Sunday's opening game of the Bulls-Knicks NBA Eastern Conference playoff series. But one change-the addition of a "reverse angle" camera-became more of a...

How surprising was the WLUP Radio decision earlier this week to move "Coppock on Sports" to afternoon drive-time? "I didn't hear about it until (producer) Jim Modelski called me Sunday...