Random thoughts while wondering if anyone is surprised by television's insensitivity in its coverage of James Jordan's murder:

Anxious to knock a megastar off his pedestal, a pack of so-called journalists first jumped to the unfounded conclusion that the death was somehow related to Michael Jordan's gambling. Next, the sniffing noses looked beneath rocks and in trash cans to find a link to the elder Jordan's business dealings. Then came the long-lense shots of a mourning family laying its patriarch to rest.The way the industry works, you just know that bonuses and promotions are being dangled before reporters and producers who can somehow snag an interview with either Michael Jordan or those accused of killing his father.

It's a tabloid age we live in, and networks with their morning show ratings wars and dueling news magazines are equally as guilty as "Hard Copy" and its slimy ilk.

James Jordan certainly deserved better.

On an entirely lighter note, do you think the Utah RollerBees will buzz off before the Roller Hockey International league makes it on television or anywhere else?

It's amusing to hear a club that averages all of 1,982 per home date singing happy tunes about next year and beyond. A dominating Little League pitcher in Bountiful should bring out as many sets of eyes. When Triple A baseball returns to town next summer, Louisville Sluggers rather than hockey sticks will be the wood of choice.

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Roberto Duran said it in the ring, so we'll say it from outside the ropes. No Mas, Roberto. No more fights, no more embarrassing flab, no more televised "bouts" against no-names. We prefer to see our tomato cans on supermarket shelves.

Until the Franklin Quest Championship gets on national TV through ESPN or one of the networks, the words about it being "big time" are premature. But don't many people go to Park City expecting a snow job?

Since television advertisers have run from the World Track Championships, the ongoing competition in Stuttgart, Germany, is both out of sight and out of mind. ESPN relegated Jackie Joyner-Kersee's heptathlon victory to a slot 23 minutes into the start of "SportsCenter."

With all the money poured into television sports rights, it must've taken a few minutes to find some loose change in a room where ABC and NBC met to toss a coin for the 1994 World Series? ABC won the flip with a "heads" call and will air the Fall Classic next year. The World Series will alternate between the two networks through 1999.

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