Steve Nidetz

It wasn`t much of a battle. High noon on Saturday was supposed to be a showdown between CBS` pro basketball and NBC`s baseball. Due to circumstances beyond control, NBC conceded...

Strike up the band. First, the Blackhawks surprised everyone by reaching the National Hockey League`s Stanley Cup semifinals, sending sports reporters from Channels 2 to 32 scurrying to find airline...

It`s time for ABC Sports to take a long look at its coverage of the Kentucky Derby. Saturday`s presentation was as predictable and dreary as the Louisville weather. An event...

When Major League Baseball switches its network allegiance next year from NBC to CBS, it will leave something behind that has been as much a staple of Americana as the...

The playoff division of ''The NBA on CBS'' got off to a rousing start last weekend, with three thrilling games that went down to the wire. The three analysts-Tom Heinsohn,...

Now that the preseason and the regular season are over, the real season begins in the National Basketball Association. It`s called the playoffs. And even the Bulls, who failed to...

Tom Brokaw is about to trample on some sensitive sports turf. The NBC News anchor hosts ''Black Athletes-Fact and Fiction'' at 9 p.m. Tuesday on WMAQ-TV (Channel 5). It`s the...

Nine years ago, ESPN was just getting its feet wet. The fledgling cable network needed programming to fill those empty hours between tractor pulls and Australian rules football. Thus, in...

As the Blackhawks skate into the second round of the National Hockey League`s Stanley Cup playoffs, it`s as good a time as any to take a look at the team`s-and...

To help mark National Cable Month, a luncheon was held in Chicago earlier this week to discuss ''Bringing More Baseball to Viewers.'' On hand were Bryan Burns, senior vice president...