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Show TV Fare The Salt The network says its own hands are aboO-lutel- y clean Boxer Scott LeDoux insists the entire matter slinks oi fraud Each of the prmupal pla crs on the stage of g ' j the United States Boxing Championships has an opinion million tournament has mushroomed into an embarrassing scandal that threatens to blow the lid off ABC Sports Every bod), that is, except the man who's supposed to be the most opinionated of all Howard Cosseil, the boxing expert whose mouth sometimes does a dandy imitation of a gattling gun, has been mysteriously silent about the biggest story to hit the boxing beat in recent years Only Public Comment In fact, the only public comment on the ABC boxing scandal from the man who tells it like it is" came last Friday in a pathetic copout duruig his ABC Radio sports show First Cosell ' pleaded no comment while the investigation is in progress Then he de self-style- d dared "It shill into a real live news reporter Its a situation that gives the horse laugh to his ambitions of getting into something more important than sports " For years Cosell was deeply jealous of Joe Garagiola In addition to being a popular sportscaster, Garagiola was an entertaining game show host and a valuable member of NBCs "Today Show where he often interviewed politicians, authors, and other VIPs Chance to Dabble Cosell longed for that sort of versatility He eventually got his chance when ABC anointed him as emcee of a Saturday night variety hour At last. Cosell figured, he had his chance to dabble in showbiz and interview important people as well If you blinked sometime during the fall of 1975, you may have missed ABC called it Cosells program After the "Saturday Night Live premiere, a lot of folks referred to it as "Saturday Night Embalmed Cosell introduced singers, dancers, and lion tamers while most of the country w atched other programs And when Howard conducted an interview, it usually looked like he was about to fall on his knees and kiss the shoes of his guest The program was mercifully canceled after several months Most Humiliating Experience As for his y earning to be a hard-nose- d newsman, Cosell always will look upon the 1972 Munich Olympics as the most humiliating experience of his life as ery interesting it has been up till now to judge the writers who have been writing innuendo, smear, and a lot of other things m the last couple of weeks Its going to be very interesting when all the chips are cashed m this situation because and this seems to be almost now the writers are really indicting themselves After taking that flabby shot at the folks who have exposed the drt behind the boxing tourney, Cosell tucked tail and ran back to s going to be v rule-of-thu- reading scores and other less dangerous pursuits Never a Discouraging Word Anybody whos surprised by Cosell s act just hasnt been dummy ing-u- p paying very careful attention duruig the last decade or so To begin with, the scandal-plague- d boxing tournament is an ABC brainchild, and Cosell never utters a discouraging word about anything on ABC Secondly, Cosell has a history of abject failure when it comes to trying to tiansform himself from a bombastic When those Israeli athletes were kidnaped by Arab guerrillas. Cosell saw an opportunity to switch from sportsmouth to foreign news correspondent But he failed miserably In the early hours of the ordeal, Cosell surfaced buefly to conduct a fawning interview with the best friend of one of the Israelis But Howard's egocentric showmanship gave off a foul odor at a trying time, and ABC slapped a de facto muzzle on him after that. comments were liCosells on-amited almost exclusively to radio while Jim McKay, a bona fide reporter, covered the breaking melodrama for TV, along with Peter Jennings, Lou Cioffi, and even a confused Chris Sehenkel the in visible Cosell basically was man until the Games resumed, a fact that always w ill haunt him ir So dont be surprised by Cosell 's reluctance to do some good basic reporting on the burgeoning boxing scandal Howard never saw the U S Be xing Championships as a potential news story, but rather as simply another vehicle for self aggrandizement Todays Viewing KTVX, Channel 4, 972-177- Channel 5, KSL-T- KUTV, Channel 2, 6 524-250- KUED, Channel 7, 0 KB YU, Channel 11, (Provo) 3 Saturday April 30 2 8 30 a m. 4 Monster Squad The Kroffts Super 2 4 Show School Rock 5 The New Adventures of Batman Mister Rogers' 7 Neighborhood 8 54 a m. 5 In the News 9am Space Ghost Frankenstein Jr The Shazam-lsi- s Hour Sesame Street 9 30a m Big John, Little John Superfriends School 2 5 7 2 4 5 Cougar Baseball 4 30 p.m. 2 NBC Saturday Evening News 4 ABC Evening News 5 CBS Saturday Evening News 5 p.m. 2 Coral Jungle 4 Streets of San Francisco 5 TAMMY & W1U HEE HAW CHEER Nova 2 Land of the Lost 2 The Muppet Show Lawrence Welk 7 10 30a m Kids From 4 4 N - 7 Two's Company CBS Children's Film Festival Hunter Safety 11 30a m. 2 5 7 2 4 7 7 4- - Kidsworld The Other Side of the Coin Rebop 11 54a m n the News Noon Maior League Ba'eball Houston vs Pittsburgh Out of Africa j u j Farm Report 7 Carrascdendas y 7 sixirtsworld Garner Ted Armstrong Trlecourse Zoom Consumer Survival 1 4- - Alan 30 P m King Tennis Classic 1 JO P 5 m CBS Sports Spectacular lty w , ho had a collection of old It is see it, PREVENT OR KILL-THENOW w agons it other people can have where here better Mr Evans told Commissioner Hutchinson to PAX Total For Lawns will prevent crobgrass, spurge it and 24 other weeds also kills dandelions and other broadleaf weeds. 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