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Friday August 21,1998
HOROSCOPES
Today's birthday:
You are sensitive, emotional, and at times stun others with your psychic capabilities. Family and home life figure prominently. You sacrifice to help those you love, especially members of family. You are fascinated by restaurant management. You are warm, creative, loyal, sensual. Capricorn and Cancer persons play dynamic roles in your life. September sees start of something big.
ARIES : Today is a 3.
No matter how you might try to get around it, you are haunted by relationship that has you spinning around. Focus on marital status and investigation of the unknown. Capricorn involved.
TAURUS : Today is a 5.
Keep plans flexible. Stand your ground, but know when to say, "I've had enough." Sagittarian tops agenda.
GEMINI: Today is a 9.
Those who thought you were left behind in are for a rude awakening. Siblings figure prominently, and will help you fight an opponent who played a dirty trick. Scorpio is in picture.
CANCER : Today is a 7.
Make inquiries concerning investment program. Current cycle relates to speculation, romance, travel, gaining confidence of important people. Writer-acquaintance proves to be an ally.
LEO : Today is an 8.
Attention revolves around fulfillment of desires. Focus on music, panache, romance, sale or purchase of your home. Libran declares, "You have what it takes." Aries also plays role.
VIRGO: Today is a 5.
SCORPIO : Today is a 6.
Element of deception present - protect self at close quarters. Question arises concerning proposals that include partnership and marriage. Pisces and another Virgo figure in scenario.
LIBRA : Today is a 6.
SAGITTARIUS: Today is a 7.
CAPRICORN : Today is a 3.
Study Leo message, Spotlight on security and reunion with family member who once said, "I am leaving for good." Capricorn and Cancer persons will dominate scenario. Business offer valid.
Collect facts, analyze figures, decisions made could affect your future. Find out where the money is and how it got that way. Invitation to dinner from Cancer should be accepted.
Let it be known, "I do not wish to hurt anyone but don't attempt to hurt me, either." Focus on travel, tempting offers, red-hot romance. Creative juices stir; Aries involved.
People could insist. "Do it the old way." Focus on ingenuity, originality, derring-dor; highlight showman ship, color, entertainment. Leo, Aquarius persons play dramatic roles.
AQUARIUS : Today is an 8.
Clash of ideas healthy – reach decision concerning cooperative efforts and martial status. Don't compete with one who has more experience, funding. Instead, utilize your raw talent.
Be willing to tear down in order to rebuild - long-distance communication results in change of itinerary. Romantic interlude lends spice – don't fight it. Taurus represented.
Note: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
Baseball games pulled off national TV
Sports on the tube
Baseball fans will miss three potentially important matchups. The first game, San Francisco at Los Angeles, could have wild-card implications, and the next two may have historical significance.
Viewers will be hurt the most by the dispute between baseball and ESPN that led to the final three Sunday night games being pulled off national television.
At their current pace, the Yankees would tie the record for most wins in a season Sept. 20 against the Orioles, a game that was supposed to be on ESPN, but now will be an only in Baltimore and New York.
Instead of watching Mark McGwire make his assault on Roger Maris' home run record Sept. 13, 13 fans will be left with something like taped boxing.
the plane falls on the shoulders of ESPN, which should have set up a contingency plan with baseball to move the games to ESPN2 before signing a 54.8 billion, eight-year deal with the NFL in January.
ESPN instead acted unilaterally after signing the NFL deal. The network was relying on an ambiguous part of its contract with baseball that allows for preemption of up to 10 games for an event of significant viewer interest. These preemptions are subject to baseball's approval but can't be unreasonably withheld.
That is where the dispute arises.
ESPN points to ratings that show the Sunday night football games being watched in more than five times as many homes as baseball games last September.
Baseball points to the fact that these are pennant race games and it is not unreasonable to demand that they
But with two years left in its contract, baseball was unwilling to set the precedent of moving its premier cable package to accommodate another sport.
ESPN offered a settlement that would have benefited the fans more than baseball's solution, putting the games on over-the-air television locally and ESPN2 nationally.
remain on ESPN, which is in 74 million homes compared to less than 60 million for ESPN2.
Baseball also preserves its legal standing to sue ESPN in the offseason for breach of contract.
And baseball fans are left out to dry.
FOX TRAP
Announcement stalls; NHL awaits Fox's bid
The NHL is not expected to announce its new $200 million television deal with the Walt Disney Co. until at least next week, as Fox is delaying a decision on whether it will match the bid.
Fox, which is entering the final year of a $1.55 million, fiveyear deal, has the right to match ABC's $250 million portion of the bid. But
anter losing $10 million last year, Fax is expected to pass and may even offer to sell the final year of the package to ABC.
Even though Fox's 10-day window to match the contract has passed, the league has not announced its deal with ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.
Fox may be waiting for the league to act first because it is considering suing the league because of a dispute over how Disney's bid is split up between ESPN and ABC.
The WNBA finished its second regular season this week, and ratings are in a slump.
WHAT'S NEXT
WNBA ratings face second season slump
NBC slipped 16 percent, ESPN fell 29 percent and Lifetime dropped 17 percent. But NBC analyst Ann Myers
says the league is stronger in its second year, pointing to an improvement in the quality of play, coaching and officiating.
"The fans are identifying more with their teams and the games have been exciting."
Myers said. "But people have to understand there will be road bumps in a new league. Fortunately so many of the games are on television, unfortunately people can see the growing pains."
Former Bengal hired as sideline reporter
TUBE BITS
ESPN has hired Coleman Cincinnati Bali Solomon Wilcals on its side-line reporter on "Sunday Night Football." Wilcats, who was a weekend sports anchor in Cincinnati before being hired by ESPN in June, knows it won't be easy to get time with ESPN's new three-man booth of Joe Theismann, Mike Patrick and Paul Maguire this season. "I know they didn't bring me in for filler, because Paul and Joe can certainly take care of that," he said. "Fox's NFL pregame show will start the season on the road at Giants Stadium, the site of the Washington-New York game ... USA Network's 17-year run of covering boxing ends Tuesday night. "The 12th Arena bowl makes its network TV debut Sunday on ABC.
TV TONIGHT
AUGUST 21, 1998
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BROADCAST STATIONS
**KSMO** 4 **"Frantic"** ***1988, Suspense) Harrison Ford.** Earth; Final Conflict "Mirace" Mad Abt. You Cops** Hard Copy** LAPD
**WDFA** 4 Get. Personal Get. Personal Millennium (In Stereo) (PA) News** Real TV (R) H. Patrol Magic Hour**
**KCTV** 5 Kids Say Candid. Candid. Unsolved Mysteries (R) Nash Bridges (In Stereo) News Late Show (R) (In Stereo) Seinfeld
**KCPT** 7 Wash. Week. Week-Review McLaughlin Wall St. Wear Best of Antiques Roadshow (In Stereo) Business Rpt. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
**KSNT** 7 "Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadillot Murder" (1997) Dateline (In Stereo) News Tonight Show (R) Late Night
**KMBC** 3 Sabrina-Witch You Wish Boy-World Teen Angel 20/20 John Ogerty (In Stereo) Roseanne Grace Under Cheers
**KTWU** 1 Wash. Week. Wall St. Wall Sketch Henderson at 80 (In Stereo) John Ogerty (In Stereo) Business Rpt. McLaughlin
**WIBW** 1 Kids Say Candid. Candid. Unsolved Mysteries (R) Nash Bridges (In Stereo) News Late Show (R) (In Stereo) Late Lake
**KTKA** 3 Sabrina-Witch You Wish Boy-World Teen Angel 20/20 News seinfeld Married...
CABLE STATIONS
**AAE** 22 Biography: Edward Murrow L.A. Detectives "Datzie: A Killing Kindness" Law & Order** Biography: Edward Murrow
**CNBC** 2 hardball Rivers Live News With Brian Williams Hardball (R) Rivera Live (R)
**CNN** 2 World Today Larry King Live World Today Sports Moneyline Larry King Live (R)
**COM** 12 "Dutch" ***1991, Comedy) Ed O'Neil, Ethan Randall." Three Amigos!***1988, Comedy) Chvey Chase." National Lamp."
**COURT** 17 Trial Story Prime Time Justice Cochran & Company Trial Story (R) Prime Time Justice (R)
**CSPN** 2 Prime Time Public Affairs Prime Time Public Affairs (R)
**DISC** 29 Wild Discovery; In Sun News World-Wond America's Haunted Houses Justice Files (R) Wild Discovery; In Sun
**ESPN** 18 Auto Race; NASCAR Grand National Major League Soccer Chicago Fire at Colorado Rapids. (Live) Sportscaster Baseball
**HIST** 1 man in the Iron Mask (R) D-Day The Total Story D-Day: The Total Story Man in the Iron Mask (R)
**LIFE** 3 Chicago Hope (In Stereo) "Kaleidoscope" ***1990, Drama) Jaclyn Smith, Perry King. New Attitudes Golden Girls Mysteres
**MITV** 3 Artist Cut Say What? Total Request (R) In Stereo Eye Spy Fanatic Loveline (R) In Stereo Siff & Oily
**SCIFI** 4 American Gothic "Puppet Master 4" ***1993 Eye Spy Gordon Cume Masters Friday the 13th: The Series American Gothic (R)
**TLC** 48 hours Supercarrier (R) Secret Codes Sun Storms 48 hours Supercarrier (R) Secret Codes (R)
**TNT** 2 "Switch" ***½*1991, Comedy) Earl Barnik, Jimmy Smits. "Mild Runner" ***1988) a bounty hunter and an accused muster duck the mob.
**USA** 2 Walker, Texas Ranger "Dead Again" ***1991, Suspense) Kenneth Braangh "True Crime" ***1995, Suspense) Alice Silvestore.
**VHI** 2 "The Jacksons: An American Dream" ***1992, Biography) Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs. Based on the story of the Jackson family's rise to fame. (In Stereo)
**WGN** 2WISEy Changing Houses" News in Stereo Major League Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Seattle Mariners. (In Stereo Live)
**WTBS** 10 (6:35) Major League Baseball: San Diego Padres at Atlanta Braves. (Live) "The Beastmaster" ***1982, Fantasy) Marc Singer, Time Approximate.
PREMIUM STATIONS
**HBO** 2 "The Rebel" ***1997, Horror) Panello Anne Miller. R" Devil in the Flies" ***1997 Rose McGowan. Chris Rock Spawn (R) DoubleTm
**MAX** 2 "Picture Perfect" ***1997, Jennifer Anion. PG-13" Addicted to Love" ***1997 Mag Ryan. Inside Out "Marylins Caramels Desire"
**SHOW** 2 "Hoodium" ***½*1997, Drama) Laurence Fishburne. Stargate SG-1 "Secrets" Dead Man's Outer Limits "Promised Land" Polestert
Runners set 100-meter track marks in Europe
The Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The next challenge to the sprinting supremacy of Marion Jones might come from a young French woman with orange-dyed hair.
Christine Arron, a 24-year-old native of Guadeloupe, overcame a slow start to win the women's 100 meters Wednesday at the European Championships, setting a continental record of 10.73 seconds.
That just missed the times of 10.71 and 10.72 clocked by Jones, the U.S. star and world champion. Jones has run each time twice this year.
Both still have to improve before they can approach the world record of 10.49 spt by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1888.
"Now I hope to improve more and stay healthy and do something really nice next year at the worlds," Arron said.
If Arron is closing in on Jones, the European men are still way behind the North Americans.
Darren Campbell led a 1-2 British finish in the men's 100, clocking 10.04 seconds to set a championship record and a personal best.
Campbell is coached by Linford Christie, the retired ace who won the last three European titles and was the last European to successfully battle the North Americans.
But Campbell was quick to issue a challenge.
"I am No. 1 in Europe now. This is one of the stepping stones that Linford and I have planned so that we can take on the Americans seriously," the 24-year-old Briton said.
Arron trailed Irina Privalova of Russia early in the women's 100. But with her powerful stride, Arron caught Privalova in the last 20 meters and stole the title and the European record from the Russian, who is coming off leg surgery.
"It was a difficult race for me because Privalova had a very good start," Arron said.
"Halfway through the race I saw Privalova from the corner of my eye and I accelerated between 60 and 80 meters."
Privalova clocked 10.83 to win the silver in her fastest race this year. Her 1994 European record was 10.77.
Ekaterini Thanou of Greece won the bronze in 10.87 and set a national record. Arron's performance overshadowed the British triumph in the men's dash.
Campbell, who once nearly quit track to take up soccer, edged another upcoming British sprinter, Dwain Chambers, who took the silver in 10.10. Charalambos Papadias of Greece won the bronze in 10.17.
"Linford has prepared me brilliantly for this," Campbell said. "I knew I was going to win it. I wasn't surprised I won, and I wasn't nervous out there. In fact, I felt really cool. I knew after I was in contention at 60 meters, the race would be mine.
"My start was a little bit dodgy, but I knew I would be strong at the end.
"I was really pleased Dwain was second. We said in the call-up room it would be a 1,2, but we didn't know who would win," Campbell said.
Other gold medals of the day went to Kiril Susovun of Russia, who cleared 27 feet, 2 inches to win the men's long jump. Sonia O'Sullivan of Ireland, in the women's 10,000 meters with a time of 31 minutes 29.33 seconds; Tibor Geseck of Hungary in the men's hammer throw with a heave of 271-101/2; and Tanja Damaske of Germany in the women's javelin at 226.8.
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