| | The Daily Insider
Afternoon News & Headlines
Monday, December 17, 2001
4:00pm ET | |
| • | CBS Reporter Jim Gray To Host Roundtable Of NFL Network Hosts |
| • | FIFA Selects Hamm, Figo As Players Of The Year |
| • | Salt Lake City Judge Says He'll Be Lenient On Olympic Party-Goers |
| • | Updated Overnight Nielsen Ratings |
| • | AOL Time Warner Signs On As Sponsor To Toyota's F-1 Racing Team |
| • | Buzzer Beaters/In Other News/Daily Stat/Channel Surfing |
GRAY'S ROUNDTABLE TO PICK COLLECTIVE BRAINS OF NFL HOSTS
The L.A. TIMES reports that CBS Radio/Westwood sports reporter Jim Gray "will moderate a roundtable discussion among five broadcasters who have served as hosts of over-the-air television network NFL pregame shows." The broadcasters will be "current hosts Jim Nantz of CBS and James Brown of Fox, plus former hosts Brent Musburger, Bob Costas and Greg Gumbel." Gray will tape the segment today and air it on "both the pregame show and halftime" radio broadcast of tonight's "MNF" contest (L.A. TIMES, 12/17).
HAMM, FIGO NAMED FIFA'S PLAYERS OF THE YEAR
The AP reports that U.S. women's team and Freedom F Mia Hamm "was honored Monday as FIFA's best player of the year, the first time the soccer organization has given such an award to a woman." Luis Figo, who stars for Real Madrid, "received the men's FIFA World Player of the Year award, the first Portuguese to win the honor" (AP, 12/17).
SALT LAKE JUDGE PROMISES TO GO EASY ON OLYMPIC REVELERS
The SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that UT's Third District Judge Pat Brian "will let his Olympic spirit shine when he bangs his gavel" during the '02 Winter Games. Brian said, "I'm probably going to dispense more mercy than justice to our national and international guests. We want them to enjoy our hospitality. We want people to have a good time." Brian added, "[We understand] there will be a few revelers along the way. But unless they are really tearing the town apart, we will be very patient and very lenient" (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 12/17).
UPDATED OVERNIGHT RATINGS
Today's issue of THE DAILY listed most of the Nielsen overnight ratings from the weekend sports events. The following updates even more weekend programming results (THE DAILY):
| Program | Date | Network | Time | Rating |
| NFL On Fox: Cardinals-Giants | 12/15 | Fox | 1:30-4:45pm | 8.3/20 |
| Golf: Williams World Challenge | 12/15 | NBC | 3:00-6:00pm | 2.7/6 |
| Fox NFL Sunday | 12/16 | Fox | 12:00-1:00pm | 4.3/11 |
| NFL On Fox: (Bucs-Bears, 78%) | 12/16 | Fox | 1:00-4:00pm | 11.3/24 |
| NFL On Fox: (regional) | 12/16 | Fox | 4:15-7:15pm | 15.2/28 |
| PGA: One from the Heart | 12/16 | NBC | 2:00-3:00pm | 0.9/2 |
| Golf: Williams World Challenge | 12/16 | NBC | 3:00-6:00pm | 3.1/6 |
BUZZER BEATERS
The Redskins announced today that CB Darrell Green has reversed his retirement decision and will return for an unprecedented 20th season (THE DAILY).
AOL Time Warner announced today that it "will join in sponsoring the Toyota Motor Corporation's F-1 racing team." Toyota's new F-1 car, which "made its world-premiere debut today, displays AOL Time Warner's corporate logo on both sides of the car's barge board; the logo will also be included in Toyota's F-1 promotional materials" (THE DAILY).
Peter Jacobson Productions has signed LPGA Tour pro Mhairi McKay to a player representation contract. McKay recently finished 20th on the LPGA money list in her third year on the tour (THE DAILY).
The AP reports that a judge ruled Monday in a sex-bias case that "high school sports for girls in Michigan must operate on the same schedule as boys sports." Michigan is one of only a few states "in which high school girls play basketball in the fall and volleyball in the winter, the opposite of the seasons traditionally used by colleges" (AP, 12/17).
The AP reports that NFL officials will review "all aspects of the bottle-throwing melee by Cleveland fans" following Sunday's Browns-Jaguars game, but they "will not … take action against the Browns' owner and president [Al Lerner and Carmen Policy] for statements that failed to criticize the fans' actions." (AP, 12/17).
REUTERS reports that Tiger Woods earned "the Player of the Year award from the Golf Writers Association of America," announced this weekend (REUTERS, 12/17).
The Ft. Myers NEWS-PRESS reports that actor Jack Wagner won the Dodge Celebrity Invitational with a 2-under par on Sunday at Miromar Beach and Golf Club in Ft. Myers, FL (Ft. Myers NEWS-PRESS, 12/17).
TONIGHT'S EVENTS
The PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reported that the "long-awaited" ESPN Classic SportsCentury documentary on NHL Rangers C Eric Lindros will be televised tonight at 8:00pm ET. The program "will explore Lindros' relationship with his parents, his feud with general manager Bob Clarke, and his long and complicated injury history" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 12/16).
TODAY'S ARTICLES OF INTEREST
The HARTFORD COURANT's Roberto Gonzalez reports on minor league baseball news from the Winter Meetings in Boston.
The N.Y. TIMES' Rutenberg & Stanley on the possibility of Ted Turner returning to prominence at AOL Time Warner.
See The Daily Insider's Articles Of Interest section for more sports business-related links.
IN OTHER NEWS……..
REUTERS reports that the world's "first completely made-in-space television commercial" will be aired in Japan beginning January 1. The commercial, for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.'s "Pocari Sweat" drink, features "a Russian astronaut picking up a floating bottle of [the] Japanese sports drink and gulping it down while looking at Earth from the International Space Station" (REUTERS, 12/17).
NBC on Monday said it "would buy San Francisco-area television station KNTV from Granite Broadcasting Corp. for $230 million to expand in the nation's fifth-biggest local TV market." NBC plans to "aggressively promote its Olympics coverage and prime-time schedule in the San Francisco area, which is home to seventh-largest Hispanic community in the United States" (REUTERS, 12/17).
The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER writes that Robert Altman's "Gosford Park," and Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down," each drew "five nominations in the first American Film Institute Awards, announced in Los Angeles this morning." Eight other films were nominated for AFI movie of the year, including "A Beautiful Mind"; "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"; USA Films' "The Man Who Wasn't There" and DreamWorks' "Shrek" (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 12/17).
THE DAILY STAT: N.Y. TIMES BESTSELLERS
The following lists this week's N.Y. Times Bestsellers in the hardcover categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction and Advice for the week ending December 8 (N.Y. TIMES, 12/17):
| THIS
WEEK | HARDCOVER NONFICTION | WEEKS
ON LIST |
| 1) | THE NO SPIN ZONE, Bill O'Reilly
(Broadway) | 8 |
| 2) | JOHN ADAMS, David McCullough
(Simon & Schuster) | 29 |
| 3) | THE FINAL DAYS, Barbara Olson
(Regnery) | 8 |
| 4) | JACK: Straight From the Gut, Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
(Warner Business) | 13 |
| 5) | THEODORE REX, Edmund Morris
(Random House) | 3 |
| 6) | THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL, Stephen Hawking
(Bantam) | 5 |
| 7) | ONE NATION, the editors of Life magazine
(Little, Brown) ^ | 4 |
| 8) | CHRISTMAS IN PLAINS, Jimmy Carter
(Simon & Schuster) | 1 |
| 9) | NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 11, Magnum photographers
(Magnum Photos/PowerHouse Books) | 3 |
| 10) | WHEN CHARACTER WAS KING, Peggy Noonan
(Viking) | 4 |
| THIS
WEEK | HARDCOVER FICTION | WEEKS
ON LIST |
| 1) | SKIPPING CHRISTMAS, John Grisham
(Doubleday) | 5 |
| 2) | VIOLETS ARE BLUE, James Patterson
(Little, Brown) | 3 |
| 3) | JOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS, Mattie J. T. Stepanek
(VSP Books) | 7 |
| 4) | HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING, Mary Higgins Clark and
Carol Higgins Clark
(Scribner/ Simon & Schuster) | 3 |
| 5) | DESECRATION, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
(Tyndale) | 6 |
| 6) | LAST MAN STANDING, David Baldacci
(Warner) | 5 |
| 7) | THE CORRECTIONS, Jonathan Franzen
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) | 14 |
| 8) | JACKDAWS, Ken Follett
(Dutton) | 1 |
| 9) | THE MITFORD SNOWMEN, Jan Karon
(Viking) | 10 |
| 10) | THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS,
selected by Caroline Kennedy
(Hyperion) | 10 |
| THIS
WEEK | HARDCOVER ADVICE | WEEKS
ON LIST |
| 1) | THE PRAYER OF JABEZ, Bruce H. Wilkinson
(Multnomah) | 42 |
| 2) | HOW I PLAY GOLF, Tiger Woods with the editors of Golf Digest
(Warner) | 9 |
| 3) | GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2002
(Guinness) | 10 |
| 4) | SELF MATTERS, Phillip C. McGraw
(Simon & Schuster Source) | 4 |
| 5) | I HOPE YOU DANCE, Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers
(Rutledge Hill) | 5 |
CHANNEL SURFING
ESPN will air "Monday Night Countdown" at 7:30pm ET.
ABC will air "MNF"'s Rams-Saints at 9:00pm ET.
HBO will air "REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel" at 8:00pm ET
ESPN Classic's "SportsCentury" will profile Eric Lindros at 8:00pm ET.
ESPN Classic's "College SportsCentury" will profile Ronald Curry at 8:30pm ET.
Eagles QB Donovan McNabb and Saints OT Kyle Turley will be on ESPN's "Unscripted."
Falcons RB Jamal Anderson will be on FSN's "The Last Word."
Warriors G Larry Hughes and F Chris Mills will be on FSN's "Best Damn Sports Show Period."
HBO will air the animated "'Twas The Night" at 7:30pm ET.
Fox will air the holiday cartoon "Santa, Baby" at 8:00pm ET.
E!'s "True Hollywood Story" will profile Roseanne at 8:00pm ET.
A&E's "Biography" will profile Jim Carrey at 8:00pm ET.
TV stars Ed Asner and Mary Tyler Moore will reunite on CBS' "The Ellen Show" at 8:30pm ET.
HEADLINERS
Here are tonight's headline guests on the following talk shows:
| "The Late Show" | Meg Ryan |
| "The Tonight Show" | Will Smith |
| "The Late Late Show" | Mario Van Peebles |
| "Late Night" | David Spade (r) |
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