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February 5, 1982 Battalion/Page 13
Sports
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:4ietwork sports broadcasters
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the funii ^ jveek, you may have heard Johnny Car-
sitory laj ,n mention that February is ratings month
itrating t rthe television industry. Ratings are how
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icingcoeleyfll know to cancel the shows that most
ig theiraceople like.
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wers of cork, they are staffed mainly by network
Kjoffs and former professional athletes.
Kie first category is football, where
BC’s No. 2 team of Don Criqui and John
Hie and CBS’ No.l team of John Mad-
itand Pat Summerall received t he highest
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L 1 w Criqui’s excellent knowledge of the game,
kJ well a's his smooth style, match perfectly
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overlook the words he fumbles.
Summerall, the former New York Giant
place-kicker, is one of the few athletes-
turned-announcer who has made the transi
tion so well that he handles the play-by-play.
Madden, the former Oakland Raider
coach, is the epitome of color commenta
tors. He explains the game in laymens’
terms, and never tells how he would coach
the situation. George Allen take note. And
with CBS’ introduction of the chalkboard,
the device that enables the color man to
diagram the plays on the screen before the
replay, he’s even better.
In the college football ranks, ABC auto
matically gets a high rating because it is the
only network that carries regular-season
games. ABC’s No. 1 play-by-play man, Keith
Jackson, is boring but good. The network’s
highest rated team is Jackson or A1 Michaels
with Arkansas Athletic Director Frank
Broyles. Broyles owns the same qualities as
Madden.
The special awards in football go to
Bryant Gumble; formerly of NBC Sports,
and ABC’s Dandy Don Meredith. Gumble is
a journalist first and a broadcaster second
and I really love the way Don sings.
The next category is college basketball.
The team of Dick Enberg and A1 Maguire
from NBC is excellent and highly rated.
The only basketball broadcast team ever
rated higher by this poll was NBC’s old team
of Enberg, Maguire and Billy Packard.
Packard left NBC to become CBS’ college
color commentator.
There has never been a man with more
confidence in himself than Maguire.
However, his humor and knowledge of the
game enhance the telecast and overshadow
his sometimes overzealous confidence. En
berg, an excellent football and baseball
broadcaster in his own right, controls the
flow of the broadcast the way a good point
guard controls an offense.
The highest ratings for baseball broad
casters go to NBC’s Joe Caragiola and Tony
Kubek. Caragiola is another former athlete
who has become a play-by-play announcer.
Special awards go to ABC’s Michaels and
Bob Uecker because of their insight into the
game. A hint to the networks: Put Cara
giola, Uecker and Michaels together and it’ll
be an all-star broadcast team.
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j laborleijrylard Truck Robinson’s abs-
icecrippled the Phoenix Suns,
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suit apiervin and Mike Mitchell, who
junted for more than half of
..points in the Spurs’ 118-112
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into a h'A-garne lead in the Mid
west Division.
“When Truck is on the floor,
they’re tougher,” said Mitchell,
who had 27 points. “He does
make a difference.”
Phoenix forward Walter
Davis said while the Spurs had
Cervin to lean on, Robinson’s
absence left a hole that couldn’t
be filled.
“We missed Truck clogging
up the middle, and also missed
his scoring and rebounding,”
said Davis.
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The scoring was even at 31 in
the first quarter, and San Anto
nio pulled ahead by a point, 62-
61 at the half.
Then Mark Olberding and
Dave Corzine combined with
Cervin to keep the Spurs in the
lead down the stretch. Four con
secutive Olberding free throws
gave San Antonio a 100-95 lead
with 7:25 to play, and Corzine
broke the Suns with two baskets
off offensive rebounds in the
final two minutes.
“Once again down the stretch,
we really executed and played
sound defense,” said Spurs
coach Stan Albeck. “W’e felt we
should try something different
so we pressed them.”
Rich Kelley, the Suns’ 7-foot
center, said: “We decided we
were going to run with the Spurs
and we did a decent job. But we
couldn’t stop them at the end.”
The Suns were led by Alvan
Adams with 23 points. Rookie
Larry Nance added 18 as
Phoenix dropped its fourth
straight.
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photo by Donn Friedmann
You must be kidding!
Forward Claude Riley of the Texas A&M Southwest Conference after Wednesday’s
basketbal team strikes up a conversation 58-55 loss to the Baylor Bears, meet the
with a referee during the Aggies’ 81-53 vie- Texas Tech Red Raiders Monday in Lub-
tory over Sam Houston State University bock,
earlier in the season. Texas A&M, 6-3 in the
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