TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET edition of CNN/SI's
"Sports Tonight" led with Duke-Stanford men's basketball
from the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at MSG, followed by a
report on possible NCAA rules violations by UConn G Khalid
El-Amin. The 11:00pm ET edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter"
(which started at about 11:10pm due to NCAA football) led
with a report on El-Amin along with highlights of UConn-IA,
followed by Duke-Stanford. The 11:00pm ET edition of FSN's
"Primetime" led with Knicks-T'Wolves, followed by Mavericks-
Heat. The first NHL story on "Sports Tonight" and
"SportsCenter," at 25:53 and 13:08 into the broadcasts,
respectively, was Maple Leafs-Bruins. The first NHL story
on "Primetime," at 39:15, was suspended Senators C Alexei
Yashin accusing the team and the NHL of collusion.
THE FIGHT STUFF: In Las Vegas, Dean Juipe reported that
TVKO is believed to have spent $10M for tomorrow's Evander
Holyfield-Lennox Lewis bout. HBO's Seth Greenburg said that
he is "hoping for" 800,000 buys at $49.95 (LAS VEGAS SUN,
11/11). A TVKO official, on the bout: "After a troubling
year, no one's talking about viewer records anymore" (BOSTON
HERALD, 11/12). Excite@Home "will offer" an online scoring
feature on its Web site, http://sports.excite.com. Users
can "send in their score" on each round and the scores will
then be announced every few rounds (BOSTON GLOBE, 11/12).
Excite takes out a quarter-page ad in USA TODAY reminding
viewers to "Remember To Vote" (THE DAILY).
NOTES: Fox's Jimmy Kimmel, responding to critics of his
role on "Fox NFL Sunday": "Fox brought me in to appeal to a
younger crowd -- like 11-to-13 year-olds -- but these
(critics) were probably sportswriters before there was an
NFL. It's a trend for me. They hate me at first, then I'm
all right" (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 11/12)....MTV will air more
than seven hours of taped segments of the MTV Sports & Music
Festival beginning at 1:00pm ET Saturday (USA TODAY, 11/12).
