Steve Nidetz

Because of a side trip while visiting relatives, WBBM Radio sports anchor Brian Davis will be covering the Winter Olympics for CBS Radio. ''It`s a dream gig in a lot...

As the National Hockey League takes its midseason break, Blackhawks fans can ponder their future as likely guinea pigs in the Brave New World of pay-per-view sports. If the pieces...

NBC should have been serving waffles at its pregame meal Sunday in Buffalo. No sooner had former Giants coach Bill Parcells made up his mind-we assume for the last time-not...

After 15 years, Al McGuire has found out ''true happiness'' isn`t all it`s cut out to be. McGuire, who brought his street-wise, New York-accented vocabulary to the broadcast booth after...

ABC Sports President Dennis Swanson sat in his office on New York City`s Upper West Side recently and wondered when this money madness was going to end. Once promoted as...

The Year of Watching and Listening Dangerously, or how some of us spent our free time waiting for the America`s Cup trials to begin: - CBS, after two nightmarish ''Dream...

Alan Weisman sits in a crowded Manhattan restaurant a few days before Christmas and alternately smokes, drinks and eats his lunch. He`s a man in a hurry. And not just...

Pregame host Bob Costas breaks in another partner Wednesday when NBC tips off its second season of National Basketball Association telecasts. Quinn Buckner, the former Thornridge High School and Indiana...

Dan Dierdorf, in his big, burly way, occasionally reminds you of Popeye and his ''I-am-what-I-am'' attitude. Dierdorf, in his fifth season on ABC`s ''Monday Night Football,'' has created sparks the...

Sometimes, ESPN likes to show the cable network is more than non-stop games and sexy exercise shows. Wednesday is one of those nights. ESPN presents ''Dick Vitale Special: The Game...