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2B THE PALM BEACH POST FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1994 TODAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY luiMi Nov. 25 Nov. 26 Nov. 27 Nov. 28 Nov.

29 Don RACkPTRAi I PBCC at tournament in Ocala. COLLEGE FOOTBALL fPB Atlantic at West Fla. PRO FOOTBALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL PRO BASKETBALL ft "FAU hosts Winthrop, 7:30. "FSU hosts UF, noon. tournament.

Dolphins at Jets, 1 p.m. UM hosts Florida Atlantic, Heat host Kings, 7:30 p.m. Don unrKFY "PBAC at West Fla. tourney. Hurricanes host Boston "Lynn at Auburn, 1 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. COLLEGE BASKETBALL I oio, atWiLnviii 7in "IRCC women host tourney. College, 7:30 p.m. "IRCC women host iUF women at Wahine Classic "Lynn at Ball State, 7:30 p.m. "FSU hosts S.

Florida, 7:30. not r- oifutn "FSU women at Montana PRO HOCKEY tournament. in Hawaii. 'Lynn women host Barry, 7:30. "UF vs.

Boston Col. at Great SI Rnm Classic 'Blaze at Lakeland, 7:30 p.m. "FSU women at Montana DRAG RACING Eight (Michigan) 7 p.m. rfcrc ra'ftbal'l "UF women at Wahine Classic DRAG RACING Classic "Citrus Nationals, 1 1 :30 a.m. wHCC hosts Brevard, 7:30 p.m.!' mfhosts Hlinois 7 30 Hawaii.

'Citrus Nationals, 2 p.m. "UF women at Wahine Classic "UM women at FAU, 7 p.m. 'rcnJ i7nm COLLEGE BASKETBALL in Hawaii. TlnWvi 'PBCC at tournament in Ocala. Florida hosts Stetson, 7:30.

i' I 12 gaining on 5 in race for No. Weekend Sports On TV I I IvI OULUUUI AuAIIM! OVER 200 VENDORS FREE EAYEQ PARKING 8 AM -3 PM INSIDE THE EXPO CENTRE AIR CONDITIONED Info: 793-0333 9067 Southern Blvd. W. Palm Beach AdmiSSiOn $1 at the Door Children 12 and Under FREE at Atlanta Falcons, or Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Minnesota Vikings, WFLX-29. 2 p.m.

College basketball: Arkansas vs. Georgetown at Memphis, WPEC-12, WCIX-6. 3 p.m. College basketball: Bradley at St. Louis, ESPN.

3:30 p.m. Golf: Back-nine play in the Skins Game at Palm Desert, WPBF-25, WPLG-10. 4 p.m. NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers at Los Angeles Raiders, WPTV-5, WTVJ-4. 4 p.m.

NFL: Chicago Bears at Arizona Cardinals, WFLX-29, WSVN-7. 5 p.m. Skiing: World Cup Women's Slalom at Park City, Utah (same-day tape delay), ESPN. 5 p.m. Auto racing: NASCAR Winston West Series at Tucson (Ariz.) Raceway Park, TNN.

6 p.m. Horse Racing: Matriarch Stakes at Inglewood, ESPN. 6 p.m. CFL: Baltimore vs. British Columbia Lions in the Grey Cup at B.C.

Place in Vancouver, ESPN2. 7 p.m. College hockey: Championship game of the Great Western Freeze-Out at Inglewood, Calif, (same-day tape delay), Sunshine. 8 p.m. NFL: New England Patri-ots at Indianapolis Colts, ESPN.

MONDAY 7:30 p.m. College basketball: Florida Atlantic at Miami, Sunshine. 7:30 p.m. College basketball: Embry-Riddle at Florida Tech, WIRB-56. 9 p.m.

NFL: San Francisco 49ers at New Orleans Saints, WPBF-25, WPLG-10. three weeks, when he said WPTV has averaged a 16.4 rating in the weekday segment, compared to WPEC's 15.2. "I've been happy with what Anthony's been able to do here," Burns said. Pittman has started a sports-challenge series and helped launch a 35-minute sports show Sunday evenings at 11:25. Though the ratings for the Sunday show are "pretty low a 4 or 5 rating," Burns said he's still happy with where the show is headed and wants to keep it.

WPBF-25 has been averaging about a 5 rating in the second half of the 6 p.m. brodcast, up from 3.6 a year ago, said Vice President and General Manager Doug Barker. "We know we're still in third place and have a long way to go, but we think one of our strengths is sports," Barker said. "(Sports Director) Marc Goldberg is someone to build around." THE RATE STUFF: WPBF expects its best college football numbers of the fall with Saturday's Florida-Florida State game. "It's safe to say it will be the highest-rated college football game we will have this year in the regular season," Barker said.

Barker is predicting a 45-55 percent share for the noon game meaning it will appear on about half of the TV sets in use among 571,000 TV households in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. The station's best-rated college game of the year to date is Auburn at Florida on Oct. 15, which drew a 27 percent share. WPBF apparently will be the only network affiliate in the market not to send a reporter to Tallahassee for live reports on UF-FSU on Friday and Saturday. WPEC-12 and WPTV-5 both plan to send crews.

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SATURDAY Noon College football: Florida at Florida State, WPBF-25, WPLG-10. 12:30 p.m. College football: Tennessee at Vanderbilt, WTVX-34, WIRB-56, WCIX-6. 1 p.m. College football: Rice at Houston, Sunshine.

2 p.m. College football: Gramb-ling State vs. Southern in the Bayou Classic at New Orleans, WPTV-5, WTVJ-4. 3 p.m. Skiing: World Cup Women's Giant Slalom at Park City, Utah, ESPN.

3 p.m. College basketball: Texas Southern at California, SportsChan-nel. 3:30 p.m. Golf: Front-nine play in the Skins Game at Palm Desert, WPBF-25, WPLG-10. 4 p.m.

College basketball: Texas at North Carolina, WPEC-12, WCIX-6. 4 p.m. College football: Michigan State at Penn State, ESPN. 5 p.m. College basketball: Northeastern at Duke, ESPN2.

7:30 p.m. College football: Boston College at Miami, ESPN. 8 p.m. College football: Notre Dame at Southern Cal, WPBF-25, WPLG-10. 8:30 p.m.

NBA: Orlando Magic at Milwaukee Bucks, WTVX-34. Midnight College basketball: Championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout at Anchorage, ESPN. SUNDAY 1 p.m. NFL: Miami Dolphins at New York Jets, WPTV-5, WTVJ-4. 1 p.m.

NFL: Philadelphia Eagles colleague, Justin Farmer, returns to the set in West Palm Beach tonight after a two-week layoff. Farmer suffered a broken nose playing basketball, Pittman said, adding, "You can barely tell." NOTEWORTHY: CBS tips off its college basketball season with Texas at No. 2 North Carolina at 4 p.m. Saturday and No. 1 Arkansas meeting Georgetown in Memphis at 2 p.m, Sunday.

Back for another season are Jim Nantz and Billy Packer Sunshine Network's season In Brief with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over David Adams of Australia and Russian Andrei Olhovskiy in Jakarta, Indonesia. The victory gave Woodbridge and Woodforde an unbeatable 2-0 record in the round robin tournament's White Group. (Results, 9B). HOCKEY: Two of the NHL's Russian stars, Pavel Bure of the Vancouver Canucks and Alexander Mogilny of the Buffalo Sabres, have decided to sign with Moscow Spartak of the Russian League. The New Jersey Devils, struggling at the gate, have received an offer to move to Orlando, the New York Post reported Thursday.

"Someone called me, I'd say a little over a month ago, and wondered if we were interested in moving," said Devils owner John McMullen. "I haven't had any further discussions with them, and I don't think anyone else from Sports If you like arguing about who's No. 1 in college football, you'll love the imprecision of deciding who has the most-watched sportscast in the area. DUl WPEC-12 says it is drawing nearly even with four-decade market leader WPTV-5 in the second half of the 6 p.m. newscast, when sports generally Charles Elmore TV-RADIO airs.

For the last four weeks, WPEC has averaged a 15.1 rating for the p.m. weekday segment, just behind WPTV's 15.2, said WPEC station manager Don Colee. He cited Nielsen overnight ratings data that showed WPTV led 15.5 to 14.3 from 6 to 6:15, but it was nearly a draw at the end. The second 15-minute segment usually includes weather and other things as well as sports, so it's hard to tell exactly how much the sportscast alone affects the ratings. But Colee thinks the overall signs are good.

"I think it's a wonderful culmination of five or six years worth of investment in the station," Colee said. "(Sports Director) Dan Oliver has been in the market for many years and has developed a certain familiarity. We have promoted Dan and Ric (Blackwell) as a franchise, with their challenge segments and other things." WPTV, which ousted longtime sports anchor Pat Murphy for new face Anthony Pittman in March, says it reads the numbers differentJy. News Director Pat Burns prefers to ate the last College Soccer Lynn teams in national semifinals Special to The Palm Beach Post The Lynn men's and women's soccer teams both have semifinal games today in their respective NAIA national tournaments. The Lynn men (18-5-1) will play West Virginia Wesleyan (18-3-4) at 11 a.m.

in Fairhope, Ala. The Knights, in the national semifinals for the sixth straight season, lost to West Virginia Wesleyan in the 1989 and '90 NAIA championship matches. The Lynn women (22-0-1) play Georgian Court College of Like-wood, N.J., at 2 p.m. in Rome, Ga. Lynn defeated Georgian Court 5-0 in Boca Raton on Sept.

15. The top-seeded Lynn women have outscored their first two opponents 10-0 in the tournament. Leal China confirms swimmer's ban BALLS (Any 9" DOZ. GRAPHITE from $1 9" GRAPHITE SETS. Liquidation from 99" GOLF SHOES from $5 IS GOLF PRO SHOP LIQUIDATORS 2154 Zip Code Place 3 opener is Northeastern Illinois at Miami tonight at 7:30.

Frank Forte and Tim Dawson return as the telecast team for UM basketball. QUOTING: "Right now I'm worried about the Miami Dolphins and getting through this interview." Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason with spirited son, Gunnar.who squirmed, coughed and nearly pulled off dad's microphone during an NBC interview Thursday. the Devils has talked to Orlando." The caller was not identified. BOWLING: Finland accumulated I6V2 points from six victories in eight matches and took the lead with one day left in preliminary men's competition in the World Tenpin Team Cup Bowling Championships at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The U.S.

is fourth with 63'2 points. In the women's competition, South Korea (67 points) maintained a one-point margin over the U.S. by winning six of seven matches. GOLF: Australia's Graham Marsh shot a six-under-par 66 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Casio World Open at Kaimoncho, Japan. American Robert Gamez had a 68 Matthew King of Australia shot a four-under-par 68 in windy conditions to take a one-stroke lead in the Australian Open at Sydney.

Defending champion Brad Faxon of Rhode Island shot a 70. p.m. College basketball: Eastern Illinois at p.m. College basketball: Florida Tech at Si is 8 in rsj 2 miles j. Okeechobee Blvd.

Palm Beach Post Staff and Wire Reports Following the lead of the international swimming federation FINA, the Chinese Swimming Association on Thursday banned world champion Yang Aihua after she failed a drug test. The Chinese organization issued a statement from Beijing confirming FINA's announcement Wednesday that Yang had been banned after testing positive for an excessive level of testosterone. A random test was taken Sept. 30 before the Asian Games at Hiroshima, Japan. Yang won the 400-meter freestyle silver medal at the Hiroshima games and the gold medal in the same event at the world championships in Rome in September.

Yang is the fifth Chinese swimmer to fail a drug test since last year. The suspension will last through Sept. 29, 1996, keeping Yang out of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. TENNIS: Australians Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde advanced to the semifinals of the ATP Tour World Doubles Championship Today In i'S il 1 i I ifew 1 1 ft I LIQUIDATION STARTS TODAY 10-6, SAT SUN 10-4 INC. Fri.

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College football: Nebraska at Oklahoma, WPSL-1590AM. 7 p.m. Miami Heat pre-game show, WINZ-940AM. 7:30 p.m. NBA: Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons, WBZT-I290AM, WINZ-940AM, WIRA-1400AM.

7:30 p.m. High school football: Glades Central vs. Miami-Pace at Miramar, WSWN-900AM. 7:30 p.m. High school football: Orlando-Lake Highland Prep at Glades Day, 7:30 p.m.

High school football: Okeechobee vs. Fort Lauderdale-Cardinal Gibbons at Pompano Stadium, WOKC-1570AM. 7:30 p.m. High school football: Plantation at Vero Beach, WTTB-1490AM. 9:30 p.m.

College basketball: Ohio vs. New Mexico State in the Championship game of the Pre New York, ESPN. College basketball: Louisville vs. BYU In semifinal of the Great Alaska Shootout at ESPN2. College basketball: Alaska Anchorage Men's college basketball Winthrop at Florida Atlantic, 7:30 p.m., Glades Road, Boca Raton.

(407) 367-3163. Northeastern Illinois at Miami, 7:30 p.m., Miami Arena, Miami. (800) 462-2637. Women's college basketball Sonny Vito's Thanksgiving Tournament, Indian River Community College, 3209 Virginia Fort Pierce. (407) 462-4700.

Motorsports Drag racing test and tune, Moroso Motorsports Park, Beeline Highway (SR 710), Palm Beach Gardens, gates open: 3:30 p.m. Test and Tune: 5 p.m. (407) 622-1400. Greyhound racing Palm Beach Kennel Club, matinee: 12:30 p.m., evening: 7:30 p.m., Congress Avenue and Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach. (407) 683-2222.

Biscayne Greyhound Track, first race: 7:45 p.m. 320 N.W. 1 15th Miami Shores. (800) 432-0230. Harness racing Pompano Harness Track, first post: 7:30 p.m.

Atlantic Boulevard and Powerline Road, Pompano Beach. (305) 972-2000. Jal alal Palm Beach Jai-Alai, matinee: 12.15 p.m.; evening: 7:15 p.m., 45th Street, West Palm Beach. (407) 844-2444. Miami Jai-Alai, first game, 7 p.m., 3500 N.W.

37th Miami (305) 633-6400. Mnia Jai-alai, first "game: 7:15 p.m. U.S. 1 at Dania Beach Boulevard, Dania. (305) 927-2841.

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4 p.m. College football: Georgia Tech at Georgia, ESPN. 7 p.m. National Professional Soccer League? Baltimore Spirit at Cleveland Crunch, ESPN2. 7:30 p.m.

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