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...Dick Enberg, under the sweltering sun, didn’t look a day over...
This is not the first time McDonough has been ushered out the door. In 1999, CBS decided to hire Dick Enberg away from NBC rather than re-signing McDonough, the son of Boston Globe columnist Will McDonough. CBS’ choice to go with the then-65 year old Enberg rather than McDonough, who is twenty-two years younger, raised eyebrows in the industry...
...York Post’s Phil Mushnick wrote that “while CBS is naturally attracted to stylish Enberg, his career is clearly in the wind-down stage. McDonough, on the other hand, not only has many good years coming, he’s the rarest of sports television commodities: He’s a practicing, highly credible journalist, unafraid to speak measured but hard truths to his audiences...
...took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...
...television audiences, the Super Bowl came accompanied with the usual baggage: hundreds of advertisements and horrendous commentary from Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson. For once, it was worth wading through the sludge of commercialism in order to see the game. The Bengals--surprise--were good. The 49ers were better...