Productive partnership By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer Dick Enberg, Paul Maguire and Phil Simms sat three-across in the Giants Stadium press box for their on-camera halftime chat, and the temptation was to ask: Which one's Moe? Only, wearing those new black and-blue leather jackets with the NBC peacock on the breast, they looked more like Dickie Trickle's pit crew. "Or a rock group," Mary Albert said. "I haven't worn my jacket for a game yet. It's been too warm. I wear it out late at night, usually." Albert and his new analyst part ner, Cris Collinsworth, worked the Patriots-Dolphins game out of Miami on Sunday. Too hot for leather, but just right for their brand of warmth. "He's a great target, and he han dles it so graciously," Albert said. "And there's a twisted side to him, too, which is very important. I'll see him laughing, I'll look over, and he'll be cracking up about some thing totally unfathomable." Two weeks ago, Collinsworth complained on the air about how much time Albert spends prepar ing for their pregame introduc tions. It was all in good humor, but Collinsworth has yet to hear the last of it. "He kills me. The worst part is, if you're not sure about something, don't say it around Mary because he'll just kill you," Collinsworth said. The partnership is quite a change for them both. Until this year, Albert's partner was Maguire, and Collinsworth's play by-play man was Tom Hammond. Hammond and Maguire both tend to bring a little Perry Como to their telecasts, while Albert and Collinsworth are more Jag geresque. "Chris has a great sense of humor, he's someone I can goof off with, so to speak," Albert said. "He's also probably the most objec tive former star player from any sport that I've come across." Collinsworth said he just wanted to make sure he didn't wind up a cheap Maguire imitation. "And I told Mary Collinsworth said. After six years with HBO and five with NBC, Collinsworth finally seems to be making his mark as a broadcaster. He's more likely to be imitated than imitator. His roll on HBO's "Inside the NFL" has expanded, and now he's partnered with one of NBC's top play-by-play men in Albert. "I know people are going to think I'm crazy, but I think NBC does this on purpose," Collinsworth said. "They say, 'OK, you've got a little potential, you're doing OK, so they put me on the Super Bowl last year, but that's not a real test. The real test is surviving a year with Mary Albert and the New York critics. If you get past that, then you're halfway to mediocrity." And, oh, don't dare make any mistakes. "It's like the other week, Mary is reading this promo about Yoko Ono, and he does his whole thing, and then we're supposed to make these little comments to each other," Collinsworth said. "The only thing I could think of to say was, 'I guess she'll have to get out of bed now.' I don't know too much about Yoko Ono, but was n't there this thing where she and Lennon spent a whole year in bed or something? Mary looked at me like I had just completely lost my mind. There's this long, awkward silence, and finally he says some thing like, 'We'll get back to that in a moment.' "He just murdered me." OUT TAKES: CBS Sports added the 25th game to its 1996 college football lineup on Monday, the Notre Dame-Navy game in Dublin, Ireland next Nov. 2. At the same time, the network announced it will show the Bowl Alliance selections on Saturday, Dec. 3 live from its own studios with two-way hookups to each of the six coaches. CBS hasn't done a Notre Dame game since 1990. CBS also has an options on the game in 1998 and 2000. "This adds Notre Dame to our programming during sweeps and also has an interesting carnival and historical feel to it, being played in Croke Stadium in Dublin," CBS Sports vice president of program ming Len DeLuca said. The game will start at noon ET and be the first of a double header. DeLuca called the half-hour bowl selection show "the fun part". "Obviously, the speculation as to who goes where is being done on a daily basis, but this will be the first official announcement," DeLuca said. "We've got no illusions. Everybody will be speculating ahead of time, but it will all culmi nate in one place, from our live announcement out of New York. "What we're trying to do is beat the drum." CBS has the Orange and Fiesta bowls, two of the three that make Jury begins deliberations in King insurance fraud tria five minutes to reply to that rebuttal. three days on the witness stand. a maximum sentence of five years in The additional arguments were permit- The promoter had testified he had noth- prison and a $250,000 fine per count. ted by McKenna because jurors were ing to do with the filing of a fake contract King's lawyer, Peter Fleming Jr., blamed NEW YORK The jury in the insurance returning from a three-day holiday week- that convinced Lloyd's of London to pay the insurance fraud on Joseph Maffia, fraud trial of boxing promoter Don King end and the judge feared they were too far King $350,000 to reimburse him for train- King's former accountant, and Richard began deliberations Monday after lawyers removed from last week's arguments to ing expenses for a 1991 bout that was can- Hummers, the former chief financial offi finished closing arguments. allow only a prosecutor to speak. celed. cer for Don King Productions Inc. U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna King, 64, who did not react to prosecu- The fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Fleming told jurors Monday that prose instructed the jury on the law, then the tors throughout the six-week trial, shook and Harold Brazier was scrapped after cutors "seem sensitive to the idea that jurors deliberated about an hour before his head slowly several times to protest Chavez cut his face while training. Chavez Maffia and Hummers might have had going home. statements by Paul Gardephe, the assistant testified he never saw the fake contract something to do with this whole case, this Earlier, the judge took the unusual step U.S. attorney. Gardephe said King's testi- and was never given $350,000 for training whole fraud." of letting the defense provide a 15-minute mony was "riddled with lies." fees. Gardephe, though, said Fleming's criti response to the government's rebuttal. The "I submit to you his story made no sense. King was charged last year with nine cism of Maffia in particular was meant to prosecutor was then allowed an additional He did not tell the truth," he said of King's counts of wire fraud, a charge that carries distract jurors from the evidence. By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer a hole in your pocket renders you changeless, • For interstate calls. Promotions excluded 1-800-COLLECT is a registered trademark of MC You are 12 0 t a mooch• But when You dial 1 800 CALL ATT. Your pangs of guilt are minimal. Know the Code. 1 800 CALL ATT. That's Your liue Choice you reluctantly call the folks collect. AT&T Your True Choice The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1995 0 1995 ART
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