10 Wednesday, January 16, 1991 / University Daily Kansan Playoffs shorten network gulf coverage The Associated Press It wasn't hard to figure out what was going through Dan Rather's mind. He was in front of the camera wearing a sweater, a striped necktie and a black cap. "We'll have a complete wrap-up of today's events in the gulf crisis during half time of the 49ers-Redskins game," he said. "Dan Rather, New York. Now we go back to Candlestick Park and Dick Stockton." It was like watching him have a tooth pulled. Twice over the weekend, National Football League playoff games shortened network news coverage of the Persian Gulf crisis. Saturday, CBS cut away from a presidential news conference about the congressional gulf vote to go to a game in San Francisco, Sunday. NBC ended its coverage of President Obama's trip to Florida to pick up the Cincinnati Bengals' game against the Los Angeles Raiders. This was not the first time Rather's newscast lost to sports. In 1987, it lost to tennis, and Rather walked off the set. Rather was complaining to his bosses when a women's seminal match at the U.S. Open ended abruptly. CBS's feed to local stations went blank for six minutes before Rather returned to the microphone. Rather said at the time that he thought they should not do anything that would trivialize a network news broadcast, and that they should not even be seen doing anything that could be interpreted that way. Cutting away from Bush's news conference could be interpreted that way. At least four other networks, ABC, NBC, Cable News Network and Public Broadcasting Service, stayed with the news conference. The choice was left to the viewers — George Bush or Joe Montana. The NFL has a choice to make, too. If war breaks out in the gulf, the NFL might have to consider postponing the Super Bowl, which is scheduled for Jan. 27. That would create some problems for ABC, which expects to sell about 56 30 second commercials to be aired during the Super Bowl at $80,000 each, equaling $44.8 million in advertising revenue. ABC's position on the Super Bowl is ABC Sports representative Mark Mandel said the network had made no contingency plans for curtailing our Super Bowl coverage if there was a war. simple — if there is one, it will be on ABC; if there isn't one, it won't be. "Obviously, no one on earth knows what's going to happen in the Persian Gulf." Mandel said. "Right now, we're going ahead as we've planned it for a long time. We're concerned with what's happening in the world, and we'll do whatever is appropriate." If the NFL, postpones the game, the NFL will have to replot its strategy. "If, in fact, we get some hard and fast decision by the NFL, then we'll be able to respond," Mandel said. Sports briefs Women's swim team wins Minnesota meet The Kansas women's swim team defeated Minnesota 150 $\frac{1}{2}$ - 149 \frac{1}{2} after a victory in the last relay of a meet in Minneapolis on Friday. The men's team was defeated by the Golden Gophers 194-104. Junior Kelly Redden won the women's 200-vard backstroke. Senior Lauri Hill finished first in the 100-yard and the 200-yard freestyle and second in the 500-yard freestyle. Kansas coach Gary Kempf said he was pleased with the overall results of his team. "We're coming off heavy training from Christmas. It's about what I expected," Kemp said. to travel to Iowa State The Kansas women's basketball team will play Iowa State at 7 tonight in Ames, Iowa. Coach Marian Washington said the team's practices had improved since its loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday. Women's basketball "We have to play better than we did against Oklahoma State," Washington said. "We've been working harder for a more intense defense." 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