Y ask Y: For the five or six people left on the List who haven't fallen on their swords or threatened to do so: ABC's "Wide World of Sports" had a two-hour special Sunday celebrating its 40th anniversary. Track was featured in all of 2.5 minutes, including the opening shot of Jim McKay on the first episode, reporting from the Penn Relays (and promising coverage of Drake as well). The longest segment was of the 1961 USA vs USSR meet at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, which shown more for ABC's accomplishment of being able to bring "twenty tons" of TV gear to the Evil Empire's Inner Sanctum than for the track meet itself. But at least we see Wilma Rudolph win the 100 and Valery Brumel set a WR of 7-4 1/4 (apparently in the rain). Later, we see Jim Beatty's 3:58 mile at the LA Times meet -- the first sub-4 indoors, and we see FloJo's Indy WR (but the camera was shooting toward the infield, so I couldn't watch for wind indication in flags or banners. But I did see at least two people sitting beside the wind guage.) A few other track snippets and that's it. But if you're an Evel Knievel or Muhammad Ali fan, wow -- what a show. Ken Stone http://www.fastforwardthroughboringstuff.com
