SURFING THE TUBE: THE WEEK AHEAD : TODAY.Byline: Tom Hoffarth A documentary that includes interviews with Frank Gifford, Pat Summerall, Curt Gowdy, John Madden, Tom Brookshier, Jack Whitaker, Al Michaels, Phyllis George, Ray Scott, Roone Arledge, Chet Forte, Dick Ebersol, Don Ohlmeyer, Van Pinchbeck pinch·beck n. 1. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold. 2. A cheap imitation. adj. 1. Made of pinchbeck. 2. Imitation; spurious. Jr., Art Modell and Tex Schramm can mean one thing: the incredible evolution of NFL as seen through the TV camera. A did-you-know nugget from the 90-minute, 13-segment special: The first NFL game covered on TV was in 1939. Howard Cosell was not in the booth. ``Replay: The History of the NFL on TV,'' ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 5:30 p.m. (repeats on ESPN2, Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 12:30 a.m.; and on Classic Sports Network, Saturday at 5 p.m.) TUESDAY If you discover that the Discovery Channel's final episode of the Eco-Challenge is here and you missed the first two nights of the race, there's always a chance to recover. Fact is, most of the 192 participants who hiked, biked, swam, rode horseback, paddled and prayed to get through the 335-mile course last August through the Australian outback are still recovering, too. Only 29 of the 48 four-person teams that started actually finished, including France's Team ARS that had Santa Monica's Cathy Sasson (pictured) as its lone female. Ventura's Mike Hobbs and L.A.'s Andy Petranek and Rebecca Rusch were on the United State's Team R.O.A.M. that had to stop because of dehydration and hallucination hallucination, false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. . Here's a chance for them to recline with a pitcher of Gatorade and see what they forgot. Eco-Challenge Episode 5, Discovery Channel, 10 p.m. (Note: Episodes 3 and 4 are Monday from 9-11 p.m. The entire series replays Sunday from 1-6 p.m.) WEDNESDAY If you missed the original airing of Fox Sports Net's ``Goin' Deep'' Sunday on the aluminum baseball bat controversy, there's time to tape it again. ``Goin' Deep,'' Fox Sports West, 4 p.m. (repeats Friday at 3 and 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 p.m.) THURSDAY Serious hockey begins. NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there playoffs: Kings at St. Louis, Game 1, Fox Sports West. (Game 2: TV TBA TBA See: To be announced , Saturday.) FRIDAY Semi-serious basketball begins. NBA playoffs: Lakers vs. Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise, based in Portland throughout its existence, entered the league in 1970 and has won the NBA Championship once, in 1977. , Fox Sports West, 7:30 p.m. (Game 2: Sunday at noon, Channel 4) SATURDAY A gluttonous glut·ton·ous adj. 1. Given to or marked by gluttony. 2. Indulging in something, such as an activity, to excess; voracious. See Synonyms at voracious. weekend of hockey and basketball continues. NBA playoff doubleheader, Channel 4, 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. , 5 and 7:30 p.m.; NHL playoff doubleheader, ESPN and ESPN2, 5 p.m. (Sunday: NBA playoffs, Channel 4, 9:30 a.m., noon and 2:30 p.m.; TNT, 6 p.m.; NHL playoffs, ESPN2, 4:30 p.m.) SUNDAY A documentary that includes interviews with ``Killer'' Kowalski, Freddie Blassie, ``The Fabulous Moola moo·la or moo·lah n. Slang Money. [Origin unknown.] ,'' ``The Great'' Mae Young, ``Nature Boy'' Rick Flair, Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon, Gorilla Monsoon, ``Macho Man'' Randy Savage, Jerry ``The King'' Lawler and Robert ``Sergeant Slaughter'' Remus can mean only one thing: the incredible world of professional wrestling. The Arts and Entertainment Network put this two-hour special together in an attempt to answer basic questions like: If it's a combination of art and entertainment, where is the sports element? ``The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling,'' A&E, 9 p.m. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO no caption (Cathy Sasson) |
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