TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:30pm ET edition of ESPN's
"SportsCenter," the 11:00pm ET edition of CNN/SI's "Sports
Tonight" and the 10:00 ET edition of FSN's "Primetime" all
led with the Univ. of IA-IN Univ. college basketball game.
"Sports Tonight" and "SportsCenter" followed with Univ. of
NC-Univ. VA. "Primetime" followed with St John's Univ.-
Seton Hall Univ. The first non-college basketball story for
"SportsCenter," at 9:08 into the broadcast, was T'Blazers-
Rockets, "Sports Tonight," at 5:48, was Mike Sherman being
named Packers head coach and "Primetime," at 4:13, was
Bulls-Heat (THE DAILY).
FROM THE BOOTH: USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke reports that
Dick Enberg will be introduced today as an NFL announcer for
CBS. Enberg will partner with Dan Dierdorf on CBS' No. 2
NFL team. Enberg will also be "reunited with former NBC
cohort" Al McGuire on NCAA men's tournament basketball games
and will anchor CBS' U.S. Open tennis coverage (USA TODAY,
1/19)....ABC is "expected to announce today" that, beginning
with the NHL All-Star Game to be held February 6 in Toronto,
Gary Thorne and Bill Clement will be paired together, while
John Saunders and John Davidson will be studio analysts
(BOSTON HERALD, 1/19)....Marv Albert "will be introduced
today as one of several contributors" to sportspage.com.
Albert will write a weekly column for the site. "Access
Hollywood" host Pat O'Brien and FSN's Bob Golic will also
contribute content (USA TODAY, 1/19)....In Boston, Howard
Manly writes, "No wonder Fox didn't fight very hard when
[NFL analyst] Jerry Glanville bolted for CBS. He was Fox's
secret weapon, a modern day Trojan horse." Manly reports
that the "Fox NFL Sunday" pregame show earned a 3.9 Nielsen
rating for the season, while CBS' "The NFL Today" "lagged
behind at" 2.8 (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/19).
