For 15 long years, the Indianapolis 500 was the most difficult telecast presented by ABC Sports. Jim McKay, the announcer, says that and so does network director Larry Kamm, and both can readily ...

As president of ABC Sports from 1968 to 1986, Arledge introduced several highly successful programs, including “Monday Night Football” and “Wide World of Sports. ...

ABC televised a movie about Nanticoke’s Pete Gray, the only one-armed player ever in Major League Baseball, in 1986. Nanticoke’s Pete Gray, who was famous for playing in the major leagues ...

Over his dozen years at ABC he called two Indy 500s, broadcast Major League Baseball, traveled the world reporting for “Wide World of Sports,” interviewed President Ronald Reagan at Daytona ...

Jim Lampley has been the voice of boxing for a generation of Americans, which is remarkable because the assignment was only supposed to last one fight.. In the winter of 1986, Lampley had a new ...

I’m now adding to that shortlist the engrossing and pulse-pounding procedural “September 5,” which takes us into the heart of the ABC control booth as a team of sports journalists is tasked ...