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DBS MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Women’s basket
ball, once an afterthought with network execu-
! tives, keeps getting more and more air time.
One day after the Prime Network announced
it would televise women’s games on Sunday
nights throughout the season, ESPN and ESPN2
said Wednesday it will carry 64 games in
1995-96, several in prime time.
The ESPN package includes
telecasts on nine Friday night
during the season.
Two games will be shown on
three of those nights.
All the Friday night games
are on ESPN2, which the net
work says now reaches 24.8
million U.S. households and
should pass 25 million by Oct.
1. ESPN reaches 66.8 million
homes.
Between them, ESPN and
ESPN2 will carry 23 regular-season
games, 25 NCAA tournament games
seven conference championship
and the NCAA Division II title game.
games
They’ll also carry eight 'exhibition games
played by the new U.S. national team, which will
become the 1996 Olympic team.
With its ’95-96 schedule, ESPN will more than
double its telecasts of women’s basketball. Last
year, the network showed 27 games.
“The time was right for growth of the sport,”
ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said.
“We’ve seen an increase in attendance at
women’s games. We’ve seen the growth of the Fi
nal Four. CBS had a terrific rating for the Final
Four last year.”
“Also, we’ve been fine tuning ESPN2 since
that went on two years ago, looking for ways to
strengthen our program lineup. We thought
could serve our audience by showing a pri
time women’s game of the week.”
ESPN last December won the exclusive rift
to the NCAA women’s tournament and will
place CBS at the Final Four.
All of the 1996 Final Four games will!
shown in prime time — the semifinals on Frii
night, March 29, and the finals on Sunday nisi,
March 31. ^
“From that, we wanted to increase our
mitment elsewhere,” Soltys said.
That Jed to the deal for showing the eift
national team games, the first of whir
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regular-season package, whit
begins Nov. 19 with Connect
cut playing Louisiana Tech
the Tip-Off Classic
Knoxville, Tenn.
The Prime package will fe*
ture 10 Sunday night gamei
starting Dec. 17. CBS alsowili
show a handful of games, h
eluding Connecticut at Ten
nessee, and many schools have
heir own TV packages.
Connecticut, for example, hasi
with Connecticut Public Televi
sion for the televising of at least 17 game
each of the next three seasons.
The result is more women’s basketball on T
than ever.
“It’s about time,” said Nancy Lieberman
Cline, the former Old Dominion star who’ll an
nounce games on both Prime and ESPN. “This
gives a chance for us to see a lot of great worn
en’s basketball players that are out there but
have never got the attention.
“Now little girls will be able to align them
selves with the players they like, to copy their
skills, to try to play the way they do. It’s a great
situation for women’s basketball to really accept
that role as a role model.”
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: (AP) — Roger Bannister, say-
f ing he was “prepared to risk
political incorrectness,” said
Wednesday black sprinters
. have “certain natural
: anatomical advantages” over
i: white rivals.
Bannister, who in 1954 be-
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L possible black athletes’ muscles
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mates and therefore better at
providing energy quickly.
He also suggested they
could have better power-to-
weight ratio because they
have less fatty tissue under
the skin.
Bannister, a 66-year-old re
tired neurologist, gave no evi
dence to support his position.
Bannister, a speaker at a
conference of the British As
sociation for the Advance
ment of Science, noted the
vast number of all-black
sprint finals and a high pro
portion, of black athletes in
other events at the recent
world championships.
“Perhaps there are
anatomical advantages in the
length of the Achilles tendon,
the longest tendon in the
body. I do not know the true
reasons,” Bannister said.
“As a scientist rather than
a sociologist, 1 am prepared to
risk political incorrectness by
drawing attention to the
seemingly obvious but under
stressed fact that black
sprinters and black athletes
in general all seem to have
certain natural anatomical
advantages.”
He also said anatomy was
not always the vital factor.
“Linford Christie has a su
perb muscular
development
compared with
the slenderer
Carl I^ewis whom
he displaced but
who achieved a
greater record
than Christie in
winning three
(individual) gold
medals at the
some of the necessities” to be
managers and general man
agers and they made poor
swimmers because their bod
ies were not buoyant.
Jimmy “The Creek” Sny
der, oddsmaker and television
commentator, was fired by
CBS in 1988 when he said
blacks were bred to be better
athletes than whites because
of slavery.
Banniater, who broke the
4-minute barrier for the mile
with a paced run of 3:59.4,
said eventually the 3:30 bar-
"... black sprinters and black
athletes in general all seem to
have certain natural anatomi
cal advantages."
— Roger Banister
former athlete and retired neurologist
same Olympics,” Bannister
said. “The brain, not the
heart or lungs, is the critical
organ.”
Both Christie and Lewis
are black.
Comments about alleged
physical differences between
black and white athletes have
caused controversies in the past.
Longtime baseball execu
tive Al Campanis was forced
to resign os vice president of
the Los Angeles Dodgers in
1987 after saying blacks “lack
rier would be smashed.
Algeria’s Ndureddine
Morcoli currently holds the
record of 3:44.39.
“I think that some day,
next century, a 3 1/2-minute
mile might be possible,” he
said.
“But no one can run a' mile
in three minutes unless, by
some freak of genetic engi
neering, the structure of the
lung and heart are changed to
deliver vastly greater
amounts of oxygen.”
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