Steve Nidetz

For those planning to attend this week`s World Gymnastics Championships in Indianapolis, don`t forget your Walkman. Huh? Spectators are being urged to bring along a portable radio with headphones to...

John Madden has parked his Maddencruiser in Chicago for a couple of weeks. But that doesn`t mean the former Raiders coach-now a TV star of mega-magnitude through his commercials and...

Tony Trabert and Pat Summerall are celebrating their 20th year together as CBS` broadcast team at the U.S. Open. They are friends (''We`ve never had an argument,'' says Summerall) and...

For ABC, this college football season will be a return to the good old days. The days before Supreme Court decisions and CBS contracts and Federal Trade Commission investigations. Back...

The Great Don Mattingly Haircut Flap could hardly come as a surprise to Yankees sportscasters DeWayne Staats and Tony Kubek. ''New York deals with overkill,'' said Kubek, the former NBC...

WLS Radio is looking for a few good men, or at least one, to keep ''Fantalk'' alive since its original host, Mike Murphy, jumped ship last week for the new...

To Joe Morgan, life should be a series of choices. Morgan, a Hall of Fame second baseman, chose a life after baseball of business and television work, which brought him...

John Rooney and Wayne Hagin may be back in the White Sox radio booth next season. Then again, they may not. WMAQ Radio station manager Rick Starr hinted changes are...

A former football coach needed a hobby, and ABC Sports was looking for a studio commentator. Bo Schembechler and the network agreed on a one-year contract Wednesday that will find...

Pat Summerall has been a survivor in the nasty world of sports television. This past year, he simply became a survivor. Summerall, a former Chicago Cardinal, began his broadcasting career...