BRIEFLY : CBS MAKES SATELLITE DEAL ON NCAA GAMES.Byline: Daily News Wire Services In an effort to bring more NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
The deal, which was announced Tuesday and will be evaluated after a year, is a small step in delivering viewers more choice of which games to watch during the tournament. Direct TV currently is in only 4.1 million homes. DirecTV will show the 34-36 games in each market that are not scheduled to be on the local CBS affiliate. The network will continue to cover the 63-game tournament in the same way, offering one game of regional interest in each time slot with limited switching to other games. CBS and the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association - which will share in the undisclosed rights fee paid by DirecTV - decided not to offer pay-per-view games to other satellite systems or local cable operators, as ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network do for college football games. Cable pay-per-view could be available in close to 70 million homes. BOXING: Japanese super bantamweight Ken Katagiri died of a brain injury in Tokyo, two weeks after he was knocked out during a fight. He is the 28th boxer in Japan to die from injuries in a bout since the Japan Boxing Commission was created in 1952. The death of the 28-year-old boxer is the first ring fatality in Japan since junior bantamweight Akira Taiga taiga (tī`gə), northern coniferous-forest belt of Eurasia, bordered on the north by the treeless tundra and on the south by the steppe. died a year ago. Mike Tyson is facing another legal challenge - this one from a Las Vegas police officer who claims Tyson struck him during a melee in the ring after his aborted fight with Evander Holyfield. The lawsuit filed by Thomas Moyer claims the officer was hit by Tyson in the chest as he tried to restrain him in the aftermath of his disqualification for biting Holyfield. Moyer, who was working off duty at the time, was assigned to protect Tyson and others ringside ring·side n. 1. The area or seats immediately outside an arena or ring, as at a prizefight. 2. A place providing a close view of a spectacle. at the June 28, 1997, fight. TENNIS: Boris Becker began what could possibly be his last tournament at home with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Sjeng Schalken in the $2.45 million Eurocard Open at Stuttgart, Germany. Becker, 30, is in semi-retirement and this is only his 10th tournament of the year. The three-time Wimbledon champion suffered an ankle injury and had not played between July and the Basel tournament three weeks ago, in which he lost in the first round. In the last match of the day, ninth-seeded Tim Henman beat Mark Woodforde 7-5, 6-1, firing an ace on his first match point. Henman is in the running for the last two spots in the eight-man World Championship next month in Hanover, Germany. Todd Martin upset eighth-ranked Karol Kucera 6-2, 6-4, a defeat that could spoil Kucera's hopes of qualifying for Hanover. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : City council president Jim Ferlo wants the Pittsburgh Penguins evicted from the Civic Arena until they pay their overdue tax bill. Because the Penguins owed the city nearly $1 million in back taxes before filing for federal bankruptcy protection, Ferlo wants the team barred from playing in the Civic Arena. Mayor Tom Murphy's administration said Ferlo's idea makes no sense because it would cost the city more lost revenue and would unnecessarily penalize pe·nal·ize tr.v. pe·nal·ized, pe·nal·iz·ing, pe·nal·iz·es 1. To subject to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or official regulation. See Synonyms at punish. 2. arena workers who rely on income from Penguins games. |
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