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The Sacramento Bee Monday April 4 2005 Montemayor has a new night game on KHTK C2 CA MEDIA SAVVY By Freedom du Lac Niners When the 49ers punted their radio rights over to KNBR last month the team immediately lost its FM affiliate in Sacramento The Eagle (969 KSEG-FM) which broadcast 49ers games in Sacramento over the past few seasons will do so no more station manager Curtiss Johnson says contract was with KGO (810 AM) he says of the previous flagship station that the team is with KNBR we even pursue a new contract signal is so strong in this market that it be in our best Cynics might say that carrying the sagging games in the first place be in The best interest Still Johnson says: in their bad seasons the 49ers are tremendously popular We really liked carrying them" The Bee's Freedom du Lac can be reached at (916) 321-1 U5orjdu-lacsacbeecom Back columns: www sacbee comdulac which is why Remy refers to the combative broadcaster as own bad Montemayor is surfing into a time slot previously assigned to the syndicated sports-talker JT The Brick 'Til will be the fourth locally produced show on Sports 1 weekday lineup with Jim Rome and Don Mike standing as the only syndicated waking-hour interlopers Rome is a perfectly sensible fit from 9 am to noon given that the most-listened to sports-talk host in the business Don Mike however is a comedy program whose Washington DC-based hosts Don Geronimo and Mike touch on the topic of athletics only occasionally and then in the service of a punchline Thus they have no place on the market's only full-time sports station Except that Don Mike which airs weekdays from noon to 4 pm generates some of Sports 1 best ratings So expect it to go away anytime soon big concert coming to town be a very different So is Montemayor called ax murderer" and much much worse by Kings fans suddenly going soft? on man I have a soft bone in my he shouts have the same edge I am who I am I'll just do a lot more than sports I want to have fun Everybody takes life so seriously in this Montemayor landed on the Northern California sports scene with the subtlety of a thunderclap in 2003 after working as a producer in Los Angeles and Chicago Almost immediately he managed to get Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon riled up at an interview session during which Gannon completely lost his cool And it long before the Kings joined in to the point that Chris Webber long a Montemayor target eventually scribbled a message on a basketball that was delivered to the radio host Webber wrote your The ball is now on display in apartment Hide the women children and all those thin-skinned Kings fans Tim Montemayor has finally talked his way into a nightly timeslot Montemayor the stentorious sports-talk radio windbag best known for his stinging criticisms of the Kings has been handed the 9 pm to midnight shift at Sports 1140 (KHTK) The new weeknight show will be launched tonight immediately after the NCAA men's basketball championship broadcast Montemayor will continue to host Sports 1 Saturday morning NBA roundtable Insiders" a show that often turns into a shoutfest with the abrasive contrarian Montemayor huffing and puffing the loudest of all new show going to be what says the man dubbed Killer" by a Sacramento Kings spokesman Saturday show is tough had to save everything I have and pound it out on one day Being on Monday through Friday gives me a chance to air it out every night I have to stick to just sports I get to talk about my life or that came back he says had some interesting conversations before he left He told me once that he respected what I did He said he thought I was misunderstood by people One person who misunderstand Montemayor is his boss at Sports 1140 heard anybody come through the radio take you by the neck and squeeze like Monty says the hyperbolic programming director Mike Remy has a great radio Even so Remy says: realize that not everybody in the world is going to like his style" But then partly the point Montemayor is keenly aware that talk radio is driven by conflict In fact conflict is his currency SPORTS DAY Armstrong finishes 28th in Tour tuneup Calendar Roger Federer reacts after winning a tiebreaker hgalnst Rafael Nadal in the men's singles final of the Nasdaq-100 Open Earlier he had had an outburst throwing his racket "Maybe it did me good and I kind of woke up Who Associated Press Luis Alvarez Lance Armstrong tuning up for the Tour de France in July finished 28th Sunday in the Ronde of Flanders in Belgium Armstrong was among the leaders most of the way but dropped back with 15 miles left in one of the five biggest one-day cycling races He will attempt to win the Tour de France for the seventh straight year proved he is in good shape and that he is motivated to Discovery Channel team leader Johan Bruyneel told the VRT network was very nervous and kept on talking over the radio signal That is always a good sign He is on Tom Boonen won race the biggest victory of his career He split from a breakaway group in the final stages and won the 159-mile race in 6 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds Boonen was 33 -seconds ahead of Andreas Klier Peter Van Petegem finished third beating Erik Zabel in a sprint The Ronde of Flanders is one of toughest challenges with 17 hills and stretches of cobblestones in the second part of the race It is rare for multistage racers such as Armstrong to figure prominently in such conditions yet he led the chasing pack up hills as intent as during climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees Sports Digest suffered a lot in the final Bruyneel said Armstrong races next in the Tour of Georgia from' April 19-24 General In Indianapolis Michael Phelps caught Ian Crocker at the finish and won the 100 butterfly at the US swimming trials for the world championships in July Phelps trailed Crocker by more than a half-second at the turn but pulled ahead to win in 5134 seconds Crocker who holds the world record of 5076 finished in 5 1 45 On the third of six days of trials Katie Hoff 15 matched Phelps as a triple winner by taking the 400 individual medley In Mammoth Lakes Sarah Schleper collected her third US slalom skiing title and Ted Ligety overcame gusting winds for his first two national championships Schleper had a two-run time of 1 :4920 to edge Kristina Koznick and Julia Mancuso Ligety was the fastest in both slalom runs to win in 1:3754 That time coupled with his 12th place in the downhill gave him the combined gold medal Olympic gold medalists Misty May and Kerri Walsh defeated Elaine Youngs and Rachel Wacholder 21-18 21-19 to win the Fort Lauderdale (Fla) Open the first event of the A VP Tour season Compiled from the Associated Press Federer rallies to defeat Nadal TV Radio (Subject to change Times might be different for satellite subscribers) TODAY He sees a glimpse of the future in barely getting past the 18-year-old Spaniard ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY BISCAYNE Fla Roger Federer waited until late in the third set Sunday to unleash his most forceful forehand raising the racket and slamming it to the hardcourt at his feet This was the winner of the ATP Tour sportsmanship award on the ropes and pitching a fit in the final of the Nasdaq-100 Open The outburst seemed to help Twice two points from defeat the top-ranked Federer rallied for his fifth tournament title this year beating 18-year-old Rafael Nadal 2-6 6-7 (4) 7-6 (5) 6-3 6-1 was missing one opportunity after the Federer said really felt like I was climbing uphill all the time and I just had enough So I threw my racket hard Maybe it did me good and I kind of woke up Who Facing the stylish Federer Nadal showed up with a flashy outfit and game to match He led 4-1 in the third set and 5-3 in the ensuing tiebreaker but shots became more accurate and aggressive as he overtook a tiring NASDAQ-1 00 OPEN Nadal in the 3-hour 43-minute marathon The performance by Nadal the youngest finalist in tournament history was no fluke The left-hander was a Davis Cup hero in victory over the United States last December and be among the favorites at this French Open and future major events as well me this was a big Federer said I know what a great player he will be one An upset would have been a streak-snapper Federer has won 22 consecutive matches this year and 18 consecutive finals since July 2003 Like Kim Clijsters who beat Maria Sharapova in the final Saturday he earned his first Key Biscayne title was extremely he said consider myself lucky to get deep groundstrokes with heavy topspin left Federer hitting balls chest-high behind the baseline and the result was a rash of mistakes by the four-time Grand Slam champion He finished with 74 unforced errors but only 18 in the final two sets tsar! windows doors Quality Products Professional Installation at a Great Price! 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