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Basketball, however, is a distant third in the sports boredom race behind the Superstars and NHL hockey. The former was once a good idea that Bob Seagren, Kyle Rote Jr., and Reggie Jackson all pitched in to ruin...
Track and field will be handled by Keith Jackson, assisted by Experts Marty Liquori (the distance runner injured in the Olympic trials), Brian Oldfield (a former Olympic shot-putter), Bob Seagren (of pole vault and superstar fame), O.J. Simpson (he ran sprints before sweeps) and Wyomia Tyus (100-meter gold medalist in 1964 and 1968). Jackson, along with Bill Flemming and former Olympic Stars Mark Spitz, Donna de Varona and Micki King, will cover swimming and diving, while Chris Schenkel with Cathy Rigby Mason, America's Olga Korbut, will report gymnastics. Boxing and freestyle wrestling will be called...
Gliding Down. Vaulter Smith, 23, has had a tougher climb to the top. He joined the pro tour last year to compete head to head with Old Rival Bob Seagren. He has since taken Seagren twelve out of 18 times. And at Madison Square Garden the last week in May, Smith soared 18 ft. 5 in., exceeding by an inch his own world indoor mark...
...swimming pool. Boston Celtic Star John Havlicek immediately complained about his lane assignment next to Shotputter Brian Oldfield ('I'll drown in the tidal wave he creates"). After two laps, Oldfield surfaced gasping and decided to watch the close finish between defending Superstar Champion Bob Seagren, a pole vaulter by profession, and Kyle Rote Jr., son of the former New York Giants split end and a professional soccer star in his own right. Rote won by a hair...
...Simpson jogged around the asphalt track repeating one thought: "Man, it's cold. The Juice may just not run in that 880.1 don't want to die down here." Simpson did run in the 100-yd. dash and with his sprinter's speed easily beat Seagren. When the 880 began, O.J., true to his word, was seated in a warm car and Seagren defeated Anderson in the comparatively respectable time...