Steve Nidetz

Mike Leiderman blames the ballplayers. ''They`re going to spring training,'' he says. ''I don`t know what it is with these guys. They insist on getting to their jobs when they...

It`s not often you find Dick Vitale at rest. But that`s where the hyperactive analyst was earlier this week. ''I`ve been traveling like crazy,'' he said. ''Traveling just wears on...

When CBS bought the exclusive rights to the NCAA basketball tournament for $1 billion last year, the big question was how it could match ESPN`s blanket coverage of the first...

When David Stern speaks, people usually listen. After all, Stern has transformed the National Basketball Association from a slumping professional league into a gleaming worldwide entertainment vehicle. And nobody listens...

At the start of Saturday`s telecast of the Pepsi All-Star Softball Game, Bob Costas introduced Tony Kubek, then joked, ''We are NBC`s baseball broadcasting team, which is equal to being...

It may be only the ''Pepsi All-Star Softball Game,'' but for a couple of hours Saturday, Tony Kubek and Bob Costas will be reunited in the broadcast booth. Kubek and...

Television`s Super Sunday went off as scheduled, with ABC using only its three planned news updates in the pre-game show and three more updates during the game. ''So far, it`s...

The first Super Bowl was held in 1967 amid much pomp and circumstance. However, neither CBS nor NBC, the two networks telecasting that event, made much mention of the ever-widening...

Like a good Boy Scout, Al Michaels is always prepared. Whether it`s an earthquake that rocks the World Series or news from the Persian Gulf war that might interrupt Sunday`s...

The Nielsen overnight ratings for Sunday`s National Football League championship games reflected the contests themselves more than outside events, according to the networks. CBS coverage of the NFC title game...