DOG ASIDE: This ABC telecast of Day 11 at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics starts off at the boxing venue….as Howard Cosell is calling the Super Flyweight gold medal match between USA Paul Gonzales vs. GBR John Lyons….as the telecast picks up in the 3rd and final round of a really hard fought…
DOG COMMENTARY: This ABC Sports telecast of Day 9 of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was a day jam-packed with excitement for Team USA….with history being made all over the Olympic venues…. especially at the Los Angeles Coliseum….where Bone Daddy and his Olympic sojourners Sky Pilot and Prince of Pleasure were sitting…
DOG COMMENTARY: This lil ole chiweenie Sportsphile has many times over talked about what we a Ima Sportsphile refer to as The Golden Age of Boxing….which spanned from 1964 to 1995….which just so happens to be the years covered by our extensive boxing library….that includes 620 world championship fights, of which we are continuing to…
DOG ASIDE: ABC’s afternoon telecast of Day 10 of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games featured three (3) boxing matches….which were all called by legendary boxing commentator Howar Cosell…..with the 1st televised match being a flyweight bout between USA Steve McCrory vs. MAW Peter Ayesu….as McCrory would win this match by unanimous decision…
DOG COMMENTARY: There is a long storied history around The Forty Acres….that there is absolutely no school better at swimming and diving…..than the Longhorn Men’s and Women’s program….as campus buzzz has always been….well, we’re not sure about the football team or basketball team or baseball team…but swimming and diving team….pure and simply “bet on the Horns”…..especailly…
DOG ASIDE: When the track and field world reconvened in Canberra, Australia for the 1985 IAAF World Cup after the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics one year later….this competition included the Eastern Block powerhouse countries like the USSR and East Germany….who had boycotted the L A Games….so, this was the 1st time since…
DOG COMMENTARY: Day 11 of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was jammed packed with major events going on all over the venues of the L A Games….but ABC Sports with host anchor Jim McKay do another spectacular job of bringing all the events of significance….albeit often not in entirety….but still providing enough highlights to…
DOG ASIDE: This 1985 Track and Field World Championship Competition was the 4th IAAF World Cup in Athletics….which was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations….and was held on October 4 – 6, 1985, at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra, Australia. This event was lelecasted live on ABC’s Wide World of Sports and featured…
DOG ASIDE: No coach in the history of college football has ever come into their 1st season of coaching at any school that had more talent or upside than the 1977 Texas Longhorns….when Coach Fred Akers took over at the helm of Texas football….for anchoring this outstanding football team that the 1st year coach…