Steve Nidetz

The Great Baseball Announcer Search continues on both sides of town. While the Cubs have settled on Thom Brennaman as their lead radio play-by-play guy for the next three years,...

Neither lawsuits nor recent U.S. police action in Central America will stay ABC Sports from its appointed rounds at the 1991 Pan American Games, according to Geoff Mason, the network`s...

CBS has turned what started out as your usual ''let`s-fill-an-hour-Christma s-Day-with-skiing-and-skating'' sports special into something special. Originally, ''A Christmas Winter Sports Special'' at 1:30 p.m. Monday on WBBM-TV (Channel 2)...

WGN decided to keep it all in the family, but not the Caray family. Legendary Cubs telecaster Harry Caray, son Skip and grandson Chip span the sports broadcasting generations. But...

This year, Ted Shaker assures, the Super Bowl pregame program won`t offer another version of ''Send in the Clowns.'' ''We`re going to try and make it as much of a...

It was a sound you had to see to believe. There, on the dais of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame Dinner, were former Metropolitan Opera star Robert Merrill...

O.J. Simpson, fruit salad plate in hand and earpiece dangling from his collar, smiled Sunday as he walked down the corridor outside the set of NBC`s ''NFL Live.'' ''Hell, in...

And you think it`s cold here. Try Antarctica. Where temperatures hover where only wind-chill factors dare to go. And that`s during the summer. Bob Beattie has been there. He had...

ABC has gone to court over its plans to telecast the 1991 Pan American Games live from Havana. The network alleges U.S. officials have hampered ABC`s efforts by refusing to...

It`s official. Dave Nelson won`t be back for a third year as analyst on WGN Radio`s Cubs broadcasts. The reasons, however, are fuzzy. ''Dave Nelson formally informed us he didn`t...