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...ever increasing TV coverage, are major moneymakers. For one thing, a winning team attracts alumni donations. Far more lucrative, however, are the direct revenues generated by sporting events. Last year's NCAA basketball tournament was worth $68.2 million in gross receipts; the four schools advancing to the final round got $1.2 million each. Virtually all those funds go to athletic departments rather than academic budgets. Top coaches share in the wealth, often making several times as much as university presidents. Some earn more than $500,000 a year from salary, endorsements, speaking fees, television programs and summer camps...
Stratospheric salaries for TV-news anchors are nothing new, of course. But last week's round of anchor shifts marked a new phase in the TV talent sweepstakes. In the past, high-visibility newscasters were wooed mainly for anchor spots on the morning and evening news shows. Now they are being groomed as prime-time stars. Shows are even being constructed around them, the way Hollywood studios in the '30s used to create vehicles for their contract stars. Chung has been promised the anchor job on a soon to be reconstituted version of West 57th, CBS's low-rated magazine...
...becoming their prisoner. Released on $50,000 bond three weeks after the appellate-court ruling, Adams was soon out of his orange prison uniform and into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off to a Houston studio to appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane to Ohio, flight attendants passed food trays bucket-brigade style over the backs...
Okay, TV-news fans, get out your scorebooks. A new round of star wars is in full swing at the network news divisions. CBS, in desperate need of a female power hitter, last week grabbed one of the league's best, Connie Chung, from NBC. She will fill a gap in the CBS lineup opened last month when Diane Sawyer left to join the burgeoning Murderers' Row at ABC. Meanwhile, NBC, looking to compensate for Chung's departure, found no superstars on the trading block but managed to land a solid .280 hitter, Mary Alice Williams, formerly...
...arena we could visit to get away from ugly realities, refresh our sense of grace and possibility, and enjoy the catharsis of a well-defined universe, presided over by umpires who distinguish fair from foul. This year, however, as the regenerative cycle of baseball's spring comes round again, there is less of a sense of a new beginning: not only has one of the game's most upstanding onetime icons, Steve Garvey, been revealed as a three-timing playboy, but its finest hitter, Wade Boggs, has been hung with the "A" of adultery...