Sports

Berle Adams on selling professional wrestling to local Los Angeles television stations

Berle Adams on signing the American Football League as an MCA client

Berle Adams on signing Arnold Palmer as a client and creating the show Challenge Golf

Ted Bergmann on the importance of sports to DuMont

Ted Bergmann on arrangements to televise boxing for DuMont

Ted Bergmann on arrangements to televise football for DuMont

Linda Bell Blue on covering the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

George Bodenheimer on Chet Simmons' televising the NFL draft on ESPN

George Bodenheimer on televising the NCAA Basketball Tournament

George Bodenheimer on ESPN acquiring a contract with the NFL

George Bodenheimer on Monday Night Football and its legacy for ESPN since moving there from ABC

George Bodenheimer on ESPN's flagship program, SportsCenter

Ken Burns on his documentary series Baseball, and his career-long exploration of race in America

Bob Costas on covering the 1986 World Series when the Red Sox almost beat the curse, and the Red Sox finally beating it in 2004

Bob Costas on covering the 1982 World Series and the 1984 "Sandberg game"

Bob Costas on Kirk Gibson hitting the home-run off Dennis Eckersley in the 1988 World Series

Bob Costas on the first time he served as prime-time host of the Olympics - 1992 in Barcelona and how he approaches hosting

Bob Costas on covering the Olympics and why it's so captivating; on the tone of the Games and the Centennial Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Bob Costas on the 2000 Sydney Olympics

Bob Costas on the 2004 Athens Olympics

Bob Costas on the response he gets to his Olympic coverage; on the dynamics of international sports

Bob Costas on decisions Dick Ebersol has to make as producer of The Olympics

Bob Costas on hosting On the Record with Bob Costas

Bob Costas on how his style affects telling the story of sports

Bob Costas on how the business of televised sports has changed

Frank Gifford on first meeting Howard Cosell

Frank Gifford on his transition to CBS Sports and working on CBS Radio

Frank Gifford on hosting the NFL Pre-game show in 1963, that became a network show

Frank Gifford on being part of the CBS broadcast team for the first Super Bowl in 1967

Frank Gifford on how Roone Arledge changed sports broadcasting with his coverage of the Olympics

Frank Gifford on working on Wide World of Sports and memories of the terrorist attack in Munich at the 1972 Olympics

Leonard H. Goldenson on the success of Monday Night Football

Julian Goodman on NBC interrupting a Jets football game to broadcast "Heidi"

Julian Goodman on getting the AFL contract for NBC

Curt Gowdy on Yankee player Joe DiMaggio when he first started announcing for the Yankees

Curt Gowdy on how World Series differ from All-Star games

Curt Gowdy on preparing to cover hockey for the Olympics

Herb Granath on ABC being the network of the Olympics

Herb Granath on the "all marketing program" he started with Monday Night Football and the success of the program

Herb Granath on his recollections of ABC's Wide World of Sports

Herb Granath on working on Monday Night Football and creating a special sales unit focused on selling sports programming

Herb Granath on the birth of ESPN

Herb Granath on the growth of ESPN and the launch of ESPN 2

Herb Granath on Jim McKay's coverage of the Munich Massacre

Earl Hamner on working on the TV version of Heidi and the broadcast's memorable interruption of a football game

Kim Kimble on doing hair for performances at the Super Bowl halftime show by Shakira, Beyoncé, and Destiny's Child

Jim McKay on the Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics

Al Michaels on announcing U.S. Ice Hockey team for the 1980 Winter Olympics

Donald A. Morgan on working as a "marathon man" during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles

Michael Moye on some people seeing racism where he does not

Don Ohlmeyer on becoming an associate director on The 1968 Olympics

Don Pardo on announcing a baseball game in 1946 on television

Hank Rieger on "the Heidi incident" -- when NBC aired the beginning of Heidi instead of the end of a football game

Hank Rieger on doing publicity for the 1984 Olympics and challenges he faced covering the Olympics

Ted Turner on acquiring the Atlanta Braves games for WTCG and trying to get people to buy a UHF antenna

Ted Turner on buying the Atlanta Braves

Ted Turner on the Atlanta Braves winning the World Series in 1995

Dick Van Patten on the Eight Is Enough reunion movies beating the World Series in TV ratings

Tony Verna on covering the 1960 Rome Olympics

Tony Verna on directing CBS's Baseball Game of the Week

Tony Verna on the advent of the post-game show

Tony Verna on directing Monday Night Football

Tony Verna on working with the NFL and Pete Rozelle on football broadcasts

Tony Verna on directing Super Bowl XII in 1978

Tony Verna on directing hockey

Tony Verna on directing basketball

Tony Verna on directing various Super Bowls

Tony Verna on directing television coverage of boxing

Tony Verna on directing winter sports for television

Tony Verna on directing The Goodwill Games

Ben Wolf on shooting sporting events

David L. Wolper on producing the 1984 summer Olympics opening ceremonies

Jeff Zucker on a pattern in his career of moving from sports coverage to wider news coverage

Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for ABC during the 1984 Olympics

Jeff Zucker on working as a Researcher for NBC during the 1988 Olympics