Steve Nidetz

The Olympics TripleCast promises much. The pay-per-view service of NBC and Cablevision promises complete uninterrupted coverage of the Summer Games for 1,080 hours. It promises no commercials nor any of...

NBC executives knew they were on to something big when the National Basketball Association gave approval for its players to participate in the Olympics. How big the network didn`t realize...

This has been a season of milestones for Cubs broadcaster Steve Stone. He`s in the first year of a unique contract with WGN-Ch. 9, it`s his 10th year with the...

CBS Sports presents its third consecutive All-Star baseball game Tuesday night. And for first time, the players will be the featured attraction rather than the ballpark (quaint Wrigley Field, 1990;...

Clinton E. Frank, the 1937 Heisman Trophy winner and head of his own Chicago advertising agency for two decades, died Tuesday in Evanston Hospital after a brief illness. He was...

It`s taken half the season, but Rick Rizzs finally is settling into his job of reporting the news instead of making it. Rizzs, who grew up in Blue Island, had...

Pat Summerall is back at his usual ''playground,'' but the CBS sportscaster has found new ''playmates.'' When Summerall was leaving the Betty Ford Clinic after a 33-day stay to treat...

It`s Olympics time again. Even former Bulls coach Doug Collins can feel the tempo change as he covers the U.S. Olympic team, the ''Dream Team,'' for TNT at its qualifying...

When Chris Evert was hired, NBC Sports officials wanted her expertise, her ''inside tennis'' perspective. While only in her third season (second, actually, since she took off last year to...

For the first time in four years, Arthur Ashe can rest easily in Britain. The horrible secret the former Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion had kept for the past three...