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Page 9 Saturday, March 10, 1990 THE BAXTER BULLETIN, Mountain Home, Ark. Gsm asffligi ggpg I NFL completes TV package with 3.6 billion-dollar pact with NBC NEW YORK (AP) The NFL wrapped up its new television package Friday by agreeing to a deal with NBC that boosts its total TV revenue to more than $3.6 billion over four years, an all-sports record. The new agreement, for $752 million over four years, concludes two months of negotiations that will increase the amount each team now gets from TV from $17 million to $32 million. It also will increase the number of playoff teams from 10 to 12 and eventually increase the length of the season from 16 to 18 weeks. The total NFL package, which will undoubtedly receive a pro forma ratification from the owners at next week's meetings in Orlando, is nearly double what the league received in its last contract, when it got $1,428 billion over three years.

It is viewed both in league and network circles as a triumph for Paul Tagliabue, the new commissioner, who negotiated it along with Art Model 1, the owner of the Cleveland Browns and chairman of the television committee, and Val Pinchbeck, the league's director of broadcasting. Former commissioner Pete Rozelle also is credited with an assist for limiting the 1987 contract, negotiated in a time of network retrenchment, to three years. "The magnitude of this new agreement reflects the NFL's importance to NBC," network vice president Arthur Watson said. "Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, Art Modell and Val Pinchbeck should be congratulated." Another network official, who asked not to be identified, put it more bluntly: "They certainly didn't leave any money on the table." One way they did it was by creating additional television opportunities. First, they increased the season to 17 weeks for the next two years and 18 weeks thereafter (although teams will continue to play a 16-game schedule).

Then they added a Sunday night cable package for the first half of season, which they sold to Turner, and finally added two more playoff teams, sweetening the ABC pot by giving the network its first playoff games ever. The revenue does not include the 1994 Super Bowl, which is expected to bring in another $40 million or more when it is bid upon at the end of the year. Here is how the new contracts break down: As it has in the past, NBC will carry AFC games on Sundays and will also get the 1993 Super Bovvl, paying a total of $752 million for those rights. CBS, which agTeed to terms Thursday, gets NFC games and the 1992 Super Bowl for $1.06 billion. That figure is higher than NBC's because the NFC has most of the larger markets and thus generates higher ratings.

While New York and Los Angeles have teams in both conferences, the NFC has Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia. ABC will pay $925 million for Monday night games, next year's Super Bowl plus two newly created wild-card games the two Saturday contests on the first playoff weekend each year. Under the new format, the two wild caul teams with the best records will play each other and the last ild-card team will play the division winner with the worst record. ESPN and TBS will pay $150 million a year each for cable rights with Turner carrying Sunday night games for the first half of each season and ESPN, as it does now, getting the second half. Jerry Martin 242, 679 Ken Richardson 248, 670 Ray Gilley 665 Scot Wells 240, 662 Gary Stubenfoll 256, 662 John Strnad 236, 660 Jerry Studdard 660 Bud Shields 256, 657 Jon Toomer 245, 656 Bob Shields 244, 652 Kevin Leveritt 234, 647 Mike Scrim a 641 J.C.

Brown 266, 637 Bob Studnar 635 Bob Hutchinson 248, 636 Larry McCollum 233, 623 Don Hill 622 Ron Gladin 620 Al Mastin 620 Bob Lutes 233, 619 JeffTraczyk 615 Bob Zalinski 609 Mike Beard 607 Bobby Ellis 604 Noel Moore 604 Ricky Eastwold 259, 603 Wayne Alexander 242 David Waugh 231 Steve Kruse 231 Junior Major Jason Lewis 209, 580 Jody Hodges 220, 557 John Rickman 198, 527 Jayson Lang 199, 507 Lynn Caul 197, 492 John Scates 183, 484 Chris Tulgetske 198 Jared Studnar 188 Allen Luster 180 Bantam Michael Howard 123 Prep Dustin Glueck 167 Joe Enich 154 Jason Kelly 154 David McBee 150 Scores from Riverlake Lanes Women Gloria Kalke 236, 594 Lou Rickman 587 Helen Studnar 582 June Crawford 575 Nancy Thoren 559 Kelly Martin 556 Brenda Register 554 Norma Hansen 230, 553 Helen Mordhorst 550 Golden Ager Women Marge Kissel 201, 549 Hazel Hathaway 545 Lil Hardt 230, 517 Laura Huston 511 Blanche Swabsky 202 Golden Ager Men Ron Feavel 267, 654 Bob Johnson 222, 614 Ollie Larrabee 211, 597 Oliver Hopkins 579 Ben Brinkworth 232, 575 Reggie Dorse 207, 566 Frank Kaiser 203, 563 Don Lessner 221, 561 Frank Eiter 211, 559 Roy Mitchell 554 John Lopit 212, 554 Leo Avesing 202, 540 Leon Gondek 205, 534 Dan Pietrandoni 205, 534 Glenn Daigle 533 Ross Brown 202, 527 Ken Trost 203, 518 Ed Erskine 518 Tony DiPietro 515 Fran Huston 513 Walter Maedge 207, 509 Tommy Bryant 509 Jim Gibson 506 John Voit 505 Harry Brown 224 Men Gene Tyree 278, 707 Tim Maynard 245, 685 Trenary almost blows big figure-skating lead HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -Jill Trenary was going to ignore her big lead over Midori Ito. Instead, she nearly blew all of it. Earlier in the week, Trenary, the three-time U.S. champion, won the compulsories at the World Figure Skating Championships, while Ito was a disappoint- finishes second Saturday. "Last year, I was sixth in compulsories and finally won the championship," Ito said.

"This year, 1 went for at least fifth, but there were other results. Today, I didn't think about being champion. I thought thcie was a good chance for bronze or silver, but winning of the champ ionship is up to other skaters." Iebedeva was first after two portions of the European championships, then fell repeatedly and finished fourth in the long program. She isn't likely to be as high as second in Saturdav's routine. The big surprise is Cook, who barely made the U.S.

team. She stood fourth going into the free skate there and finished just fourth in the free skate. Soviet Union held the overall lead. She was second in the compulsories and fourth in the original. Holly Cook of Bountiful, Utah, was second overall, thanks to a fourth in compulsories and a third on Friday.

Then came Trenary, Ito and Kristi Yamaguchi of Fremont, Calif, who was runner-up to Ito in the original. Unless Ito collapses in the long program, she should have no trouble winning it. Ito does the hardest jumps and does them better than anyone and has the advantage a champion always carries in the sport. That means Trenary has to finish second to win the gold medal. But Ito would lose the gold to Lebedeva or Cook if either Lions return to practice floor ing 10th.

That created a gigantic gap between the American and the defending champion from Japan. All Trenary needed was a pair of third places, in the original program (30 percent of the total score) and free skate to win. But a near-disastrous original program Friday, in which Trenary opened up her required combination jump and did only a simple double toe loop-double toe loop, made things tight. "I have no perfect answer," Trenary said of her mistake. "If I miss that, I usually fall.

After I doubled the first, I thought about doing a triple. But in the long run, it was better to do a clean combination. "It's not anything I'm proud of." Ito already had skated a clean, difficult routine to capture first place with all nine judges. Tre-nary's poor performance, echoing her equally weak original program at the national championships last month, dropped her to fifth in this segment. "The nationals short was worse," she said.

"I fell there. "Now, it's a close race. It's a lot like going into a tight race like at nationals, and it's still possible for me to win." Heading into Saturday's free skate. Natalia Lebedeva of the rick, and Father Dave Hagan, a friend from Philadelphia. "They were really happy about that," Kimble said.

Kimble, the nation's leading scorer, said he shot some foul shots left-handed during high school because of an injured right elbow which restricted his shooting. During Thursday's practice session, Kimble said he made about half of his 10 left-handed attempts from the foul line. "So that shows that I need some work like Hank on perfecting those free throws," Kimble said. "I'm not nervous about it at all. I'm sure the coach will understand, and I hope my pro coaches and my teammates will understand that it is in remembrance of Hank." Westhead said he has not made a decision on who will start in Gathers' spot during the NCAA tournament.

He said it will depend on whether he goes with a tall or short lineup. One possibility is 6-foot-9 sophomore Chris Knight, who expressed confidence in his team's chances. "I'm not even worrying about it, because I know there's no way we're going to lose," Knight said. "We won't lose another game. I just know that, there's no way." Pairings for the NCAA tournament will be announced Sunday, the same day the Loyola team travels to Philadelphia for Gathers' funeral, which will be held Monday.

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"I'm sure there were a fair amount of players who probably wouldn't want to be here if they had their choice. But the group, I think, can help you in this regard." The team had an informal shoo-taround Wednesday which was optional for the players, but all of them showed up. Bo Kimble, a teammate and best friend of Gathers from their days at Dobbins Tech High in Philadelphia, made an unusual announcement after Thursday's practice. Kimble, a right-hander, said he intends to shoot the first foul shot in every game he plays for the rest of his life left-handed as a tribute to Gathers. Gathers was also a righthander, but began shooting his foul shots left-handed during practices before the start of this season because he was having such a tough time right-handed.

The experiment worked. Gathers was more successful from the foul line shooting with his left hand, so he continued to do so once the season began. "I wanted to do something in remembrance of him," Kimble said. "And this would give me something that's really touching and emotional to remember him with." Kimble said he made the decision Wednesday night after talking with Gathers' brother, Der get it in the basket. Merritt was the leading scorer for Rivercrest with 12, while Camden's Marilyn Morris led all scorers with 18.

Malvern 55 Harrison 52 ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) -Malvern outscored Harrison 16-7 in the third quarter and refused to give up the lead. The crowd erupted midway into the third period when two Malvern three-pointers were followed by a Mike Akel slam dunk for Harrison. Harrison led 26-23 at halftime and kept within 11 points of Malvern throughout the game, although the contest usually was closer. William Burks scored 2 1 points for Malvern and Mike Jones added 14.

Akel led all scorers with 24 points for a losing cause. ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) Michelle Merritt hit four of five three-point attempts to lead the Rivercrest Lady Colts over Camden Fairview 45-43 in a come-from-behind thriller in the girls' AAA semifinal Friday. Fairview had the early lead, outscoring Rivercrest through the first three periods. At the end of one, it was Fairview 10-6.

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