DOG ASIDE: This video starts with the 3rd game in set # 2 of the 1986 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles between Ken Flach + Kathy Jordan verses Heinz Gunthardt + Martina Navratilova…..in a match that Flach + Jordan continue on to win a 2nd set tie-breaker and win the title 6-3. 7-6. The telecast shifts to…
DOG ASIDE: This video is a classic….as sports broadcasting legend Dick Enberg….who we just lost….when he is hosting SportsWorld….which was NBC’s weekend afternoon sports anthology production….that brought all kinds of sports from all kinds of places and perspectives….like in this video where the Muhammad Ali Indoor Track Meet is first up on the menu…..and any…
DOG COMMENTARY: One of the major corporate sponsors of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games was Kodak Films….as their TV commercials that ran during the Olympics featured some of America’s top Olympic athletes like pole vaulter Mike Tully, 400m hurdler Edwin Moses, 100m sprinter Evelyn Ashford et al….as seen in this commercial herewith. When you…
DOG ASIDE: Sperry Corporation (1910−1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company….whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century….then through a series of mergers….it exists today as a part of Unisys….while some other of its former divisions became part of Honeywell and Lockheed Martin. The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide…
DOG COMMENTARY: Let’s take a look at what took place in the year in sports in 1987….as Super Bowl XXI was won by the New York Giants by a score of 39 – 20 over the Denver Broncos….while Fiesta Bowl featured the Penn State Nittany Lionswinning the national championship over the Miami Hurricanes by a score of 14 – 10….then…
DOG ASIDE: In this 24 minute HBO pre-fight video for the 1986 telecast of the 10-round heavyweight fight between Iron Mike Tyson verses Jose Ribalta….the viewer is fortunate to have HBO Boxing commentary team of Barry Tompkins, Sugar Ray Leonard and Larry Merchant….who provide great highlights, interviews, personal profiles and expert analysis of the impending…