Steve Nidetz

When CBS made a surprise bid last week to continue its baseball contract, one of the cornerstones of the plan was to keep the playoffs on national TV. According to...

The last-minute entry of CBS into the baseball owners' contract talks is at once refreshing and suspicious. Refreshing, for if adopted, baseball life as we've grown to know it over...

The National Basketball Association and WGN-Ch. 9, thought to have ended their legal war a little over a year ago with a permanent injunction, have renewed hostilities. Tucked into the...

After months of brainstorming and negotiating, Major League Baseball and two broadcast networks reached tentative agreement Saturday on a revolutionary television contract, setting up a tradition-breaking joint venture. Instead of...

Heavyweight boxing raises its sometimes ugly head again this month, starting with the Don King-promoted pay-per-view show Saturday night that features newly crowned World Boxing Council champion Lennox Lewis. Lewis,...

While executives at ABC and CBS declined comment on the unusual revenue-sharing contract between NBC and the NBA, one cable official calls it "cutting edge." "The deal is creative and...

Da Coach on Da Links? At a recent dinner with Mike Ditka in Chicago, NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol and executive producer Terry O'Neil were trying to figure a way...

Da Coach on Da Links? At a recent dinner with Mike Ditka in Chicago, NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol and executive producer Terry O'Neil were trying to figure a way...

There's nothing like a wide-open Kentucky Derby field to complicate the life of Curt Gowdy Jr. Gowdy, for the last eight years producer of ABC's Derby telecast, usually has two...

Order the pizza. Stock up on the beer. And bring the earplugs. It's time for ESPN's annual 6 1/2-hour telecast of the National Football League draft. Few events stand out...