European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes thursday August 6.1987 esp gives nil Complete to Blanket by Michael Good win , times news service new York the professional football season is Here attain and televisions across the United states soon will he shuddering wild inc crunch of bodies and the chatter of broadcasters. Some of inc broadcasters arc new. Some Are in new places and some of the shows surrounding inc games arc new and the new season is bringing with it More hours of football and football talk meaning that those who believe too much is not enough should find this season lot heir i King. Thanks to the new National football league con tract with esp Couch potatoes will be Able to spend about 12 consecutive hours watching nil shows on Many sundays. That Wil give the league first place in he record Book for monopolizing television on a sin Gle Day surpassing the annual 10-hour orgy of College bowl games on new year s Day. The first preseason games arc this weekend. Sat urday san Francisco will play Kansas City in the Hall of Fame game which will be televised by Abc. Sun Day. Abc will show the american bowl game at Wembley stadium in London starring the Denver Broncos and the los Angeles rams. The saturday game Wilt feature Abc s return to a three Man broadcast Crew for its regular season Mon Day night football program. Dan Dierdorf will join at Michaels and Frank Gifford for the show s Isth season. Gifford and Michaels tried it alone last year after gift Ord Joe Namath and of. Simpson lurched through inc previous season. That he show needed some new life is indisputable. Whether Dierdorf hired away from cd or any other third person is he answer remains to be seen. Abc is trying some new moves Wilh its sunday pc game and Posl game show starting with the name. Previously known As nil "85" or nil 86," the show this year is called nil live More important Abc has pulled the plug on its Experiment Wilh a studio audience. It will be a Relief not having to watch the show s regulars Bob Costas Ahmad Rashad Paul Maguiro and Frank Deford play for laughs and applause. Abc is retaining most of its regular game broadcast ers Dick a nacre and Merlin Olson Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy. Charlie Jones and Jimmy Cefalo. Namath is one newcomer he will be teamed with Marv Albert and they Are scheduled to work Many of the jets games. That sounds like a Good idea. Gone is Bob Griesc who will work College games for Abc. Lbs is returning Wilh its regulars on nil today Brent Musburger try Cross Jimmy the greek Snyder and will Mcdonough. The show is the High Cal rated of its kind and the ubiquitous Musburger is rewarded with the highest wage in the business a reported s1.8 million this year. Lbs game broadcast teams arc mostly familiar Pat Summerall and John Madden Dick Stockton and Terry Bradshaw Tim Ryan and Joe thai Satin Tim Brant and Hank Stram Verne Lundquist and Dick Vermeil. But lbs has also created two new earns of note. First is James Brown and Dan Jiggetts both of whom Are Black. Blacks Are not much More numerous in he top ranks of broadcasting than they Are in the manage ment of sports franchises and lbs believes that Brown and Jiggetts will be the firs Black duo o Call an nil game. The other new team will be Jim Lampley and Ken Stabler. Lampley formerly of Abc has agreed o be come the sports Anchor of Kobs in los Angeles and to work at least it nil games for the network with Stabler the former quarterback. Meanwhile. Esp is preparing for its first season doing 13 games Wilh some new twists. Us main broadcast Cam is Mike Patrick who did College games for esp last year and Roy Firestone whose inter View show appears on esp. A guest analyst will join them with plans calling for a different guest for each of the four preseason games eight regular season games and the pro bowl. The Chance of that idea work ing seems slim but risk taking is always Welcome. Esp s studio show features Chris Barman Pete Axthelm and Tom Jackson copying the lineup format at Abc and lbs. Unlike the others nil game Day begins at 11 30 a.m., Eastern Standard time on sundays and lasts for one hour. For its regular season games which begin nov. 8, esp will also have a one hour pc game show starting at 7 ., on which Allic Sherman will become some thing of a studio analyst. He will have a camera at he game for his use enabling him to add insight into activities away from the Ball. The result of the proliferation of pregame and Post game shows and esp s entry is a viewing schedule on eight sundays that will look like this a one hour pc game show on esp starting at 11 30, a 3q-minute pregame show on cipher Abc or lbs Al 12 30, a game on one of those two networks at i ., a game on the other network Al 4 ., a on hour pre game show on esp at 7  And a game on esp at 8. The final game should end Between 11 and 11 30, or about 12 hours after the fun began. There is a potential catch however. The Federal Trade commission is investigating the awarding of the television contracts for possible violation of antitrust Laws. It is a Long shot proposition but a guilty finding could mean that Bowling will be the most popular sport on television this Winter. That would be really diff real. Al from Page 17 Boston s Dwight Evans clouts a two run Homer in the ninth inning la Val Texas. Blk by Garth Lorg and a single by White. Red sox 8, runners 6 Arlington Texas Dwight Evans second Home run of the game a two run shot in the ninth inning rallied Boston Over Texas. Wilh Texas leading 6-5, Pinch hitter Don Baylor opened the Boston ninth Wilh a single off Dale Mohorcic 6-3, and Evans who had hit a three run Homer in the sixth inning hit his 25th of he season. Calvin Schiraldi 7-5, the third Boston Pitcher was the Winner despite giving up Gino Petralli s two run single in the eighth. Indians 15, Yankees 3 Cleveland pal Tahlor drove in four runs and Ken Schrom pitched a six hitter Over seven innings for his first Vic tory since May 24 As Cleveland crushed new York. Schrom 5-7, who had been in the Bull pen for two weeks because of a sore Chest muscle resumed to the starting rotation and struck out  without walking a baiter. Athletics 9, mariners 3 Oakland Calif Jose Canseco and Terry a Linbach each hit two run singles in a five run fifth inning rally aided by Seattle s Sloppy Fielding As Oak land crushed the mariners. Sieve Oliveros 6-5, ave up Only two earned runs in seven innings while allow ing eight hits striking out three and walking two to snap his four game losing Streak. One of the hits Oft Ontiveros was Gary mall hews 2,000th career hit a sin Gle in the third. Lee Gellerman 9-3, retired the first 10 Oakland batters but fell behind 2-0 in the fourth on Mark Mcgwire s sacrifice Fly and an error by third baseman Jim Presley. Royals 8, tigers 4 Detroit Kansas cily used Home runs by Lonnie Smith and Steve Balboni plus a five run fifth inning and Danny Jackson broke a personal three game los ing Streak with a seven Hitler As the Roy als beat Detroit. Jackson 5-13, pitched his sixth com plete game of the season. Brewers 9, orioles 8 Milwaukee Pinch Hitler by. Sur Hoff singled with the bases loaded and one out in the 12th inning to give Milwaukee a Victory Over Baltimore. Glenn Braggs and Rob Deer singled off Mark Williamson 5-8. To begin the 12ih. Greg Brock sacrificed and wilting son intentionally walked Pinch hitter Ernest riles to Load the bases. Surhoff Ihen slapped a 1-2 pitch on inc ground to right Field 10 end the game. The orioles tied the game in the lop of inc ninth when Ray Knight hit a three run Homer off relic face Dan Plesac. Norman feels he s ready to return to his 86 form by de Shearer Palm Beach gardens Fla. A Greg Norman May be on the verge of returning to inc style of play thai lifted him to the to. 1 spot in world Golf in 1986. The last seven weeks i be played Only the . Open and the British open Norman said tuesday after finishing a practice round fur Llie season s final major event the 69th pea championship. Now i m very keen and eager to get Back to playing again he added. After winning 10 titles in 1986, including inc British open Norman has claimed Only one Victory this season the australian masters in his native country. Although he s Only played twice in seven weeks Norman said lie has been practising during the mornings and spending time on business and Vilh his family in the afternoons and evenings. I be been very unhappy Wilh this year he said. I be been  Norman said he has no idea what a Cal wrong Wilh his game this year. But Sug Ltd it might be loss of con it ration. Coni in Lvalion s the most dramatic difference he said " Tonii Chi ration s the hardest thing in the  his Best finish in the United Stales this season was a second place tie in the masters when he lost on inc second Hule of a playoff on Larry Mize s pitch from off inc Green. It was t inc first time the australian Star had Tost a major title because of someone s Miracle shot. Happened in the 68lh pea Al Inver Ness in Toledo last year when Bob Tway holed a Bunker idol on the 72nd Hole fur in Civile. Norman had an Ama ing run in Lau year s four major it cols. He led All four going into the final round and finished second in the mailers. I2lh in the . Open won the Grinsh open and was Sec Ond in the t a. It has t bothered me he said of his runner up roles in so Many recent majors. I Don t think that s Why this year has been a Little slow. It s a pretty Good excuse 1 guess but i m not going to use it. When you re playing Well and you re in that zone you can t do anything wrong Norman said. He Hain t been in that one for a while bul he thinks his break from the game has made him hungry for Victory again. "1 have More hunger now because l a taken some Lime away from  he said. We All gel