Fans lead ESPN back to football

Aug. 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)

ESPN wouldn't listen to its critics in the media. But football fans? Another story.

Whatever the motivation, the end result is good news. The network actually is admitting wrongdoing (sort of) and will change the way it presents “Monday Night Football.”

Aug. 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Week in review: San Diego's TV ratings (Aug. 29):

Motorsports

Sailing/Boating

Surfing

Tennis

Horse Racing

Fighting Sports

Holiday is huge for fishing, hunting: Labor Day weekend always is the time when seasons converge, and this year is no different with ocean fishing going strong and hunting season blasting off with the annual dove opener set for Monday.

Fitness

Age-group's best in world has even higher goals: At an age when flying to most of his peers means boarding a plane for vacation, 80-year-old Bud Held has found a different way to soar.

Nick Canepa

Nowhere to go but up for bottom-ranked Long: A preseason college football article in Sporting News has gone so far as to rank the top 52 coaches from non-BCS schools. SMU's June Jones is No. 1. San Diego State's Chuck Long? 52. There's a joke in there someplace, maybe that Long ranks 52nd because there isn't a 53.

Tim Sullivan

The challenge will now be to keep up with the Chinese: Peter Ueberroth has done the math and it is daunting. It tells him his China problem is only going to get bigger; that the Summer Games of Beijing were more of a clue than a culmination; that the host nation's ravenous appetite for raw materials applies to gold, silver and bronze as it does to oil and natural gas.

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Chicago Muscle: Wayne Catalano made his first trip to Del Mar a big one yesterday by winning the Grade II Pat O'Brien Handicap with Frank Calabrese's 5-year-old horse, Lewis Michael. Now Lewis...

Baseball

Yankees reveal pricing plans for new ballpark: Even seats behind the outfield fence will be costly at the new Yankee Stadium. The front part of the area behind the outfield in right and left will cost $100 and $75 per game next year as part of season-ticket plans at the $1.3 billion ballpark.

NFL

Offseason full of turmoil for Raiders: During their past five dismal seasons, the most interesting thing about the Oakland Raiders has been the bizarre off-field happenings that have served as a distraction and sometimes as a reason for all the losing.

NBA

Favorite Son: Knicks trade for Ewing Jr.: Talk about pressure. Patrick Ewing Jr. is following in the footsteps of his famous father again.

Golf

Weir shoots a career-low 61 for the lead at Boston: Mike Weir shaved his “playoff beard” when his wife and children flew into town this week, but that had no bearing on his golf Friday. This was a round to enjoy, not explain.

Soccer

Liverpool announces another stadium delay: Liverpool has announced another delay to building a replacement for Anfield stadium, blaming global market conditions.

College Football

Rice spoils June Jones' SMU debut with 56-27 win: It was Rice that put up the big numbers in the debut of June Jones' run-and-shoot offense at SMU.

College Basketball

Men's Final Four worth $47 million to San Antonio: The NCAA men's Final Four and some related events generated more than $47 million in economic benefits to the San Antonio metropolitan area.

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Musically speaking, this one's a home run: Music and baseball have always seemed to go together. And now, at a CD outlet near you, comes “The Baseball Project: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails” on Yeproc Records.

Manny could reverse curse of the Dodgers' bad moves: On so many levels, the big deal really was a no-brainer. The franchise that's gone from brilliant to brainless just made a trade for a player who often seems to act like he doesn't have a brain in his head.

Paul Brown would frown at son's move: It must have occurred to you as it did to me after Mike Brown stunningly, and I think wrongly, returned Chris Henry to the good graces of the Cincinnati Bengals: his father would not have done that.