Who better than Dick Enberg to host a show on sports’s most compelling moments?
Starting Monday, Enberg, who has covered games people play for almost 50 years, is host of “In Focus on FSN” (6 p.m. Mondays, FSN Rocky Mountain), a collection of memorable sports events.
Some are more memorable than others. The Boston Red Sox’s comeback victory over the Yankees in the 2004 American League playoffs is more spark-
ling than, say, the opening of the 36-part series which highlights Mike Tyson gnawing off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear in their 1997 championship fight.
Enberg didn’t pick the moments. “Not at all,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. “The producers (Frank Sinton and Steven Michaels) have done all of that. I had a slight hand in it. They sent me the scripts and allowed me to tweak a sentence here and there.” Enberg acts as moderator, bridging the moments between interviews, photographs and film footage.
Almost all the highlights are from recent times. No 1951 Bobby Thomson home run here. “It’s probably a good idea to attract the younger audience. Going back too far has its limitations. I’ve been around a half-century so I feel comfortable no matter what the show may be.”
Of Jeremy’s mom, others
The award-winning “Colorado Sportswomen” praises women who help others through sports (6:30 p.m. Saturday, KCNC- Channel 4).
Featured on the show, hosted by Marcia Neville, is Char Bloom, fly-fishing instructor and mother of former CU football and ski star Jeremy Bloom. She won’t take a fee from her clients, telling them to make a donation to the Denver Rescue Mission’s Champa House instead.
Around the dial
Monday’s last game of the NHL’s Stanley Cup finals drew a 3.3 rating, down from a 4.2 in 2004, the league’s last season before the lockout. And, despite the drama of Phil Mickelson’s collapse at the U.S. Open, the tournament’s viewership tumbled 12.1 percent from last year. On the other hand, viewership of the NBA Finals was up 12 percent … Soccer fans wanting to pull for both the U.S. and Italy to win at the World Cup this morning will have to have two TVs or spend the day flipping between ESPN and ESPN2. Both games start at 8 a.m. … NASCAR goes to its first road course of the season in Sonoma, Calif. (1 p.m. Sunday, KDVR-Channel 31) … ESPN2 kicks off 119 hours of Wimbledon tennis coverage on Monday, without Mary Pierce, Serena Williams and Lindsay Davenport, all of whom have withdrawn, with Dick Enberg doing the play-by-play for the 23rd year. Also, keep an ear out for theme music composed by Boyd Tinsley, violinist in the Dave Matthews Band … Quotable: “He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.” Don King
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
