Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Networks battle for NCAA rights
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—After being left out of last week's NASCAR TV deal, CBS and Disney's ABC-ESPN are the front-runners for the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Formal presentations will be made today and tomorrow at the NCAA's Indianapolis headquarters, and an announcement could come by the end of the week. The
new deal is expected to be worth about $400 million a year.
CBS, the incumbent, is in the fourth year of a seven-year, $1.73 billion contract that expires after 2002.
However, the NCAA has elected to negotiate a new deal, which would begin in 2003 and is expected to include marketing rights. The marketing rights to the tournament are held by Host Communications. CBS
and Host are expected to present the NCAA with a combined offer.
"The presentations will be on a broad range of topics," said NCAA spokesman Wally Renfro. "There is no timetable for when a decision will be made."
ESPN has said the advantage of having Disney broadcast the tournament was that viewers could watch all of the games nationally.
doesn't show all of the games nationally in the early rounds, but it could team with a cable partner to do so.
CBS, which declined to comment.
CBS' primary competition may be ABC-ESPN, but Fox and its cable partners, Fox Sports Net and FX, remain interested even after landing a share of the NASCAR package. NBC, which has the NBA, is not interested in the NCAA tournament.
NEW YORK — Pedro Martinez became only the fourth pitcher to win the American League Cy Young Award unanimously and joined Gaylord Perry and Randy Johnson as the only pitchers to win the honor in both leagues.
Martinez, 23-4 with a 2.07 ERA for the Boston Red Sox, received all 28 first-place votes and totaled 140 points in balloting announced yes-
Baltimore's Mike Mussina was next, getting 16 second-place votes and six thirds for 54 points, followed by New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera with 27 points and Cleveland pitcher Bartolo Colon with 14.
The only previous unanimous American League winners were Denny McLain (1988), Ron Guidry
terdary by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
(1978) and Roger Clemens (1986 and 1998).
Two years ago, Martinez won the National League Cy Young Award for Montreal and gave it to Hall of Famer Juan Marichal. Martinez is keeping this one.
Martinez, a 28-year-old right-hander, started the season 15-2, putting himself in position to become baseball's first 30-game winner since McLain with the 1968 Detroit Tigers.
"I think my best chance was this year," Martinez said. "I think it could happen but it's going to be really difficult to get. The way the rotation is these days, you have to get every break. It's almost like being perfect for one year."
Martinez also is the co-favorite for the American League Most Valuable Player award with Cleveland's Manny Ramirez. That award will be announced tomorrow.
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