PAGC 4 Sports Calendar SATURDAY (NBC)BASEBALL Joe Garagiola takes a pre-season look at upcoming baseball; highlights of a maior-league all-star soft- ball game from Sarasota", FL (NBC) SPEEDWORLD Highlights: Paul Page covers the World of Outlaws sprint car race (taped) from Mesquite, TX; also Syracuse Mile motorcycle race from Syracuse, NY. (NBC) TENNIS Live semi-final coverage of the Boca Raton Tennis tournament from Boca Raton. FL. racing facility for the benefit of spectators in the grandstands, not to mention the TV cameras. The U S. team will be led by marathon record- holder Alberto Salazar from Eugene. Ore.; two-time world champ Craig Virgin of Lebanon. III., and the reigning national cross country titleholder. Pat Por ter from Alamosa. Colo. North Carolina State's Bet ty Springs. NCAA champion in cross country events, leads the women's team Competition includes defending champions Bek- ele Debele of Ethiopia and Grete Waitz of Norway, a five-time winner. Also on hand will be New Zealand's Rob De Castella. a top-rated marathoner; Rod Dixon, last year's New York Marathon winner, and Italy's Alberto Cova. world 10.000-meter champion. (ABC)SPORTSBEAT (ABC) PRO BOWLERS' TOUR $125,000 Fair Lanes Open. Fair Lanes Capitol Plaza, Washington. D C (ABC) WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (CBS) NCAA BASKETBALL DOUBLEHEADER "The Final Four" (National Semifinals) Winner of Mideast Regional Final vs. Winner of West Regional Final; Winner of East Regional Final vs. Winner of Midwest Regional Final Gary Bender and Billy Packer provide commentary, live, from The King- dome, Seattle. Wash. SUNDAY (CBS) GOLF Final-round coverage of the $800 000 Tournament Players Championship Golf event, with Pal Summerall. Ken Venturi Ben Wright. Steve Melnyke. Verne Lundquist. Olive Clark and Tom Weiskopf providing the commentary, live, from Tournament Players Club. Sawgrass. Ponte Vedra. Fla. (CBS) NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Frank Glieber and Ann Meyers provide the commentary, live, from Pauley Pavilion. Los Ange les, Calif. (CBS) GOLF Third-round coverage of the $800,000 Tournament Players Championship golf tournament Pat Summerall, Ken Venturi. Ben Wright. Steve Melnyk. Verne Lundquist, Clive Clark and Tom Weiskopf will provide the commentary, live, from Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass. Ponte Vedra. Fla (NBC) TENNIS . / .. Dick Enberg and Bud Collins host this live coverage of the Boca Raton Classic championship final (men's) from Boca West Resort and Club. Boca Raton. Fla. THE LONG HAUL - For you millions of fans who thrilled to the cross country skiing in the recent Olympic Games. NBC has a treat for you the World Cross Country Championships Seven hundred runners from 49 nations will com pete for team and individual honors at the Meadow- lands Race Track, marking the first time in the 71 years of the meet -- .one of the most important events on the international sports calender -- that it has been held in the Western Hemisphere NBC will carry the event as this week's SportsWorld" (Sunday. 2:30-4 00) Don Criqui describes the action, and Frank Shorter, two-time United States Olympic medalist in the marathon and a lour-time national cross-country champ, will provide the analysis. The features of the meet include a 12-kilometer (7.4 miles) senior men's iace: a five-kilometer (3 1 miles) women's race and an eight-kilometer (five miles) |umor men's race As in Euiope...where the sport is extremely popular, the championships will be contested on the infield and track of a horse- (NBC) SPORTSWORLD Highlights: Grand National Steeplechase (24-hour tape delay) from Aintree, England; World Karate Association championship bouts (tape) from Hollywood, Fla (ABC) THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC)USFLFOOTBALL MONDAY (CBS) NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Brent Musburger hosts from the CBS Sports Studio on site, with Gary-Bender and Billy Packer providing the commentary, live, from The Kmgdome. Seattle. Wash © 1984 Compulog