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          TV MONITOR: Last night's 10:00pm ET 60-minute edition
     of FSN's "National Sports Report" led with Jazz-Nets,
     followed by Celtics-Cavaliers.  The first non-NBA report, at
     4:02 into the broadcast, was Bill France Jr. stepping aside
     as NASCAR President, and "NSR" had 1:25 of total NASCAR
     coverage.  The first NHL report, at 41:49, was Kings-
     Rangers.  Last night's 11:00pm ET 60-minute edition of
     ESPN's "SportsCenter" (late due to NCAA men's basketball)
     led with Pacers-Lakers, followed by Sonics-Trail Blazers. 
     The first non-NBA report, at 2:21, was Univ. of IL-Duke
     Univ. men's basketball.  The first NHL report, at 17:14, was
     an update on Flyers C Eric Lindros.  The first report on
     NASCAR's management changes was at 34:18, and "SportsCenter"
     had 0:28 of total NASCAR coverage.  Last night's 11:00pm ET
     30-minute edition of CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" was pre-
     empted by continuing coverage of Election 2000 (THE DAILY).
          NOTES: FSN's Jim Rome, on the Panthers' 34-14 win over
     the Packers on Monday night: "That was the very game that
     Dennis Miller was hired to make watchable.  Carrot Top, I
     mean Miller, was supposed to get off and keep us entertained
     with some of his brilliant rants during blowouts like that. 
     Well, I've got news for you.  Neither Carrot Top nor any
     other comedian was going to make that game worth watching"
     ("Last Word," FSN, 11/28)....USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand
     notes that ESPN2's Pam Ward "might now be poised to make a
     real breakthrough in [the] famously male clubhouse" of
     sports broadcasting.  Coming off her play-by-play duties on
     November 22 for the Toledo-Bowling Green game, becoming the
     first woman to call college football on national TV, Ward
     will handle play-by-play for the NCAA Div. III championship
     football game on December 16.  Hiestand: "[Ward] seems
     positioned to become the first woman to break a famous glass
     ceiling by getting inside a football broadcast booth's glass
     walls"(USA TODAY, 11/29)....NEW ORLEANS CITY BUSINESS' Ian
     McNulty reviews six-week old thePit.com, a sports trading
     card Web site "started by a few young Turks from the
     financial world."  ThePit.com is a "sports fanatic's version
     of Wall Street, complete with valuations, limit orders and
     giddy initial public offerings, which introduce new players
     to the fray every Sunday" (NEW ORLEANS CITY BUSINESS, 11/27
     issue)....The Univ. of OK-OK State Univ. football game on
     Saturday produced a record 24.2/45 rating in OK City, making
     it the highest-rated telecast ever on FSN Southwest and the
     most watched program of the day in the city, as an average
     of 146,000 TV HHs tuned in.  The rating beat FSN Southwest's
     previous record of 17.7/38 for the same match-up last year
     on November 27.  Saturday's game peaked with a 27.6/48 in
     the 5:30-5:45pm CT quarter hour (FSN)....In Atlanta, Prentis
     Rogers reviews local team ratings and writes that the
     Falcons "have fallen into such disfavor that their game
     against Oakland wasn't even the highest-rated NFL telecast
     Sunday" in the city.  WAGA-Fox had a local Nielsen rating of
     8.5 for the Falcons' 41-14 loss, nearly two ratings points
     behind the 10.1 rating for Bills-Bucs on Atlanta's WGCL-CBS. 
     Meanwhile, the Thrashers earned a 1.0 rating Saturday night
     on WUPA-UPN for their win over the Capitals, while the
     Hawks' loss to the Magic the same night earned a 0.7 on
     WHOT-IND (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 11/29). 

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