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Biting back: The allegations heat up in the Marv Albert sex abuse trial (People Daily...
...akin to saying it's not the winter, it's the cold that bothers me. No, it is sex, in and of itself, that occupies us, the lying being a collateral offense. A visitor from another planet reading the papers recently about First Lieut. Kelly Flinn, Marv Albert, Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel. The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major newspapers, above the announcement by Boris Yeltsin at the NATO summit that...
This preoccupation wouldn't be so troublesome if sex, or lying about it wasn't such a growth sector, spawning lawsuits, dishonorable discharges, job losses, book contracts and political meltdowns. It's one thing to be amused by whether Marv Albert had to remove his hairpiece when being booked on charges he bit a woman in his hotel room and quite another matter to make sexual allegations grounds for court-martialing B-52 pilots, winnowing potential political candidates and crippling a President...
...York fans who grew up listening to "Yesss!" and "Kick save--and a beauty." Says Frank Commrade, a truck driver for a carting company and die-hard Rangers and Knicks fan from Larchmont, N.Y.: "First the Knicks self-destruct, and now this. Say it ain't so, Marv...
...innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." He then vowed to continue working the N.B.A. play-offs for NBC. In attendance were his four children, one of whom is also a sportscaster (New York Rangers play-by-play man Kenny Albert), as well as Marv's new fiance, independent television producer Heather Faulkner. As for Gifford, an ABC spokesman said, "We're not going to discuss Frank's private life." ABC may, however, want to discuss the 66-year-old former football star's future. A broadcaster's connection to the audience is based on trust...