Steve Nidetz

Tucked into all the Christmas Day programming, among all the showings of ''It`s a Wonderful Life'' and the NBA telecasts, is a present from NBC Sports. While some cynics may...

Last weekend marked the fifth anniversary of a milestone in the women`s movement. A very small and personal milestone, but a milestone nonetheless. It was on Dec. 20, 1987, at...

As expected, CBS Sports announced Thursday some changes in its talent lineup for the 1994 Winter Olympics. Not as expected, one of those talents tripled his duties. Greg Gumbel, host...

Dick Ebersol, as president of NBC Sports, had a very up-close and personal look at the future last summer. What he saw was that pay-per-view events had little future in...

No one knows the pressure of Heisman Trophy voting more than O.J. Simpson. The NBC football analyst was a runner-up in 1967 and a winner in 1968. ''It makes me...

The Bears` unexpected five-game losing streak has thrown a monkey wrench into CBS` scheduling for the remainder of the National Football League season. Instead of concentrating on NFC Central Division...

SportsChannel has been televising the Illinois High School Association football championships for five years. But to producer/directors Bob Albrecht and Tim Sutton, it never gets old. ''We treat this like...

Greg Gumbel and Terry Bradshaw have honed their comedic talents in between the features and news on Sunday morning`s ''NFL Today.'' The CBS Sports studio anchors even have taken their...

The Big 10`s demise as a powerhouse football conference has been felt in many places, but perhaps most of all at ABC, which is in the midst of a seven-...

ESPN plans to cover the baseball expansion draft with the same kind of thoroughness it uses on the NFL draft. It`ll have to because the telecast will last at least...