Viewers Need Cable For Olympics Coverage
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Bill Fleischmann argues NBCs Olympic coverage relied too much on prepackaged presentations and lacked spontaneity. He urges more afternoon cable coverage and intact Olympic moments such as Ali lighting the torch and the team hug for publicity and balance. He suggests keeping modern pentathlon and criticizes beach volleyball as party sport.
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Knicks Sign First Round Trio Wallace McCarty Jones
New York Knicks lock in John Wallace Walter McCarty and Dontae Jones on three year deals with rookie scale values. Wallace a Syracuse star averaged 22.1 points 8.7 rebounds and led to NCAA title game. McCarty 11.3 points 5.7 rebounds for Kentucky. Jones 14.7 points 6.8 rebounds at Mississippi State. Vancouver Grizzlies sign Shareef Abdur-Rahim to three year contract as third overall pick. Capriati returns to win 6-4 6-2 at du Maurier Open while Becker withdraws from Pilot Pen with wrist injury.
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Taaffe seeks to stay on as Citadel coach
Citadel suspended coach Charlie Taaffe for the season after his second drunken driving arrest in three years. Taaffe, 55-41-1 in his Citadel tenure, expressed hope to remain coach, while assistant Don Powers was named acting head coach.
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Sports on TV Today and Tomorrow Highlights
A dense schedule lists baseball, tennis, golf, figure skating, hydroplane, soccer, auto racing, boxing and harness racing. Notable games include Mets at Cubs, White Sox at Yankees, Bulls? and several championship events across networks with times from noon to midnight.
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Tony v. Williams
Preseason NFL Odds Ledger Echoes 1996 Lines
A chaotic OCR snippet lists preseason NFL matchups with teams including Philadelphia Tampa Bay Minnesota Buffalo Oakland San Francisco Los Angeles Houston Boston Toronto Texas Detroit New York Chicago Milwaukee Baltimore Kansas City Oakland Cleveland Seattle California and Minnesota as home teams in caps. It appears to be a Tribune Media Services ledger of spread and pick em style lines for various games with unclear dates and incomplete figures.
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History notes on major Hambletonian and PGA wins
Recaps three horse racing and golf outcomes from past years. In 1952 Bion Shively drives Sharp Note to win the third heat of the Hambletonian. In 1982 Speed Bowl wins the Hambletonian in straight heats with 25 year old Tom Haughton as the youngest harness racing champ. In 1983 Hal Sutton overcomes three bogeys to edge Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to win the PGA Championship.
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Hal Sutton
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