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...political conventions have been deemed newsworthy again - sort of - by ABC, which has decided that simply having Dennis Miller in the booth was not enough reason to relegate its convention coverage to halftime of two preseason telecasts of "Monday Night Football." The new plan, with an OK from the NFL: Start the games at 7 p.m. instead of 8, and whatever's still on in Philly and L.A. after the game will have the network's undivided attention...
...Bell, perhaps? Technowizards are trying to find a way to beam COLIN POWELL into the hall from an outside location. One idea (ours): Take advantage of ABC's reported decision to show the convention only during halftime of Monday Night Football by putting Powell, complete with headset, in the booth with new man Dennis Miller...
...appointment of DENNIS MILLER to the Monday Night Football booth sparked outrage, but his resume bears a striking resemblance to that of late MNF legend Howard Cosell...
...will it feel like football? The average heartland football diehard doesn't really go for the thin-and-neat turtlenecked wisecracking type, with jokes they don't really get and don't really care to. Miller's "SNL"/HBO shtick won't get him too far in this booth. But if he's a real fan, the viewers might warm...
Deciding that spending time with Bob Costas in the NBC booth was a little too much fun for his own good, former Lakers coach Pat Riley joined the New York Knicks in hopes of turning a former 50-win team in the '80s into a championship contender. If there was a defining moment and turning point for modern Knick basketball, it came the following June in the 1992 Eastern Conference semis...