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...Eastern League games, Maspons is set to repeat as league batting champion. Last season Maspons hit .491 in league games and won the title by 52 points. This year he's hitting .500 (12 of 12). Should repeat, Maspons would become the Crimson's first two-time batting champ since Tony Lupien...
...later, The Thorn Birds, also on ABC, surpassed that score with a whopping 41.9. Enticed by these colossal numbers, all three networks began developing mini-series at a rate unseen since the heady days following the ground-breaking 1977 telecast of Roots (at 45.0, still the all-time ratings champ). Such "long form" dramas, however, need out-of-the-ordinary ratings to justify their hefty production costs (a reported $32 million for Space, for example), especially since most of them do poorly in reruns. And as the minis proliferate, maxi- audiences are becoming harder to woo. "When mini-series first...
...that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah. And in the main event, teaming with Hulk Hogan against the preening Paul ("Mr. Wonderful") Orndorff and the kilted, malefic Rowdy Roddy Piper, is the Hulk's Rocky III co-star...
...Crimson concentrates on the EIBL games, not only because the league is stronger, but because the EIBL champ earns an automatic berth to the NCAA Northeast Regional. The GBL games usually played on weekdays, provide some competition and keep the team in playing shape...
Defending champ Columbia shapes up as the highest hurdle. The Lions didn't lose anybody to graduation from a squad that had a perfect 9-0 league record (17-1 overall) a year...