SURFING THE TUBE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH TODAY A couple of interesting footnotes to the piece HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy has for ``Real Sports'' on the Jan. 20, 1968 UCLA-Houston college basketball ``Game of the Century'' featuring Lew Alcindor vs. Elvin Hayes: Spike Lee came up with the idea and wanted to produce it last year on the 30th anniversary of the game, but he got too busy. And HBO had to put out a nationwide APB APB See Accounting Principles Board (APB). for first-half film of the game, which no one had seen in decades. It was found after the sale of the TVS library once owned by current Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the White Sox have played in U.S. headman Eddie Einhorn, whose syndicated production company produced that game and hired then-UCLA play-by-play man Dick Enberg to do the call. ``Real Sports,'' HBO, 10 p.m. (repeats this week Thursday at noon and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.) TUESDAY The Pac-10 has guaranteed a team to appear in the NIT final. So there. NIT semifinals, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , 4 and 6 p.m. (ESPN has the NIT final Thursday at 4:30 p.m.) WEDNESDAY The Lakers finally have a home game? At the Forum home game? And Rodman will be there? Can't promise everything. Phoenix at Lakers, Fox Sports West, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY The editors of Golf Magazine decided one of the biggest chokes last year was by Len Mattiace at the TPC. Mattiace was 6 under through 16 and one shot back of leader Justin Leonard. Then came the 17th - the island - and Mattiace took a quintuple-bogey eight, dropping to fifth. It happens. PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. : The Players Championship first round, USA Network, noon. (USA also has the second round Friday at noon while NBC has the third round Saturday at 11 a.m. and the final round Sunday at noon); LPGA LPGA abbr. Ladies Professional Golf Association : Dinah Shore Invitational first round, ESPN, 1 p.m. (ESPN also has the second round Friday at 1 p.m. while 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. has the third round Saturday at 1:30 and the final round Sunday at 1 p.m.) FRIDAY UCLA has a 50-50 shot of being here, but that would mean having to play outside Los Angeles. NCAA Tournament women's Final Four, ESPN, 4 p.m. (ESPN also has the final Sunday at 6 p.m.) SATURDAY UCLA has a 50-50 shot of being at Malloney's sports bar in Westwood watching this, but that would mean they care. NCAA Tournament men's Final Four, Channel 2, Duke vs Michigan State, 2:30 p.m.; Connecticut vs. Ohio State, 5 p.m. SUNDAY After the annual New York-Los Angeles NBA clash, don't forget to at least set the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. for an hour-long documentary about the college basketball clash that 20 years ago could lay claim to being called ``The Game of the Century'' - the Michigan State-Indiana State NCAA final featuring Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird. New York at Lakers, Channel 4, 3:30 p.m.; ``Magic Vs. Bird: The Game That Changed The Game,'' Fox Sports West, 9 p.m. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO no caption (Magic Johnson) |
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