Steve Nidetz

It`s happening. The long-dreaded Spring Without Baseball is upon us. For those who lived through the Summer Without Baseball, this 1990 variation recalls the anxiety, depression and downright meanness of...

And then it started to rain. Ted Shaker, CBS Sports executive producer, sat and watched his ''Dream Season'' turning into a nightmare last week on a soggy baseball diamond in...

Those who heard it will never forget it: ''Do you believe in miracles? Yes!!!'' As Al Michaels remembers it, they were just ''the right words at the right time.'' It`s...

Turner Broadcasting is joining the National Football League. The NFL will split its Sunday night package between TBS and ESPN for a reported $900 million for four years. TBS, for...

For a second straight week, heavyweight boxing champion James ''Buster'' Douglas dominated the Sunday sports news. And for the second straight week, NBC took the story and ran roughshod over...

Steve Corman is an old hand at live TV. Corman, the new executive producer at SportsChannel, has been in the business for 20 years. Corman, 47, used to produce the...

No sooner had James ''Buster'' Douglas obliterated the myth of Mike Tyson`s invincibility than all three broadcast networks jumped into action Sunday. Two of the three, however, jumped a little...

When an NBC Sports official recently was asked about the network`s plans for its National Basketball Association telecasts next season, he said the network was looking for play-by-play men, analysts...

The Hawk is back. And full of mea culpa. Ken Harrelson was introduced Monday as the umpteenth play-by-play voice of the White Sox in the last four years. Harrelson agreed...

Illinois` basketball team may be seeing red by now over allegations involved in the NCAA investigation. But ABC Sports basketball analyst Dick Vitale says that by seeing red jerseys Sunday,...