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PAG! 4 Sports Calendar SATURDAY (ABC) WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (NBC) NFL FOOTBALL AFC wild card game. (CBS) NCAA BASKETBALL Boston College vs. University of Maryland, with Verne Lundquist and Billy Packer providing the commentary, live, trom Cole Fieldhouse, College Park, Md. (CB8) SUN BOWL Southern Methodist University vs University of Alabama, trom El Paso, Texas. SUNDAY (CBS) NCAA FOOTBALL The top NCAA Football seniors from the NgrtMake on those from the South, in the Blue-Qf^y Game Steve Davis provides the commentary, Hve, from Mobile, Ala. c (CBS) NBA BASKETBALL New Jersey Nets vs. New York Knicks. with Dick Stockton, Tommy Heinsohn and Pat O'Brien pro­ viding the commentary, live, from New York's Madi­ son Square Garden. (NBC) SPORTSWORLD Highlights: World Cup Four-Man Bobsled Cham­ pionship from Cervinia, Italy; Hawaiian Invitational Skydiving Championship from the island of Oahu; and a look at Meadowlark Lemon and the Buck* eteers. FRIDAY . (ABC) FOOTBALL The Gator Bowl from Jacksonville, Flo. T 09 Reel Ufa CD MO VIC: •Six WnIu' ID <39 Taking CD MOW: laawy Rlvar' © Pkta'i Day ®(8) SATURDAY, DEC. 24 6D (3® A Hi la tat Ik Action ID (39 MOVIf: 'Courage of Lottie' A young giri and Kar dog art ported whan ha it put into the army and taught to kid. Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgon, Tom Drake. 1946 §0 MOVIf: 'Chm to Mm Stablo' Two Roman Catholic nuns procure lond and resources for a children's hospital in Naw England, loretta Young, Celesta Holm, Hugh Marlowe. 1949. 12:30 PM O movie: loom Service' A penniless theatrical producer and his aides " fake measles in ordar to stay in a hotel. Marx Brothers, Lucille Sail, Ann Miller. 1936. QD Newton's Apple 3D ® 39 Hooding 8) NR. Football: AK WHd Card Game/or CD <29 MOVIf: -CHHitmos In Connecticut' A newspoper columnist it instructed by her boss to hove a war hero as her guett for Christmat dinner. Bor bora Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan. 1945. ®IKI 6D MOV*. Scroogt, « mlwobU man who dtiDondi poyiiwnt of loom tvtn on Oiristmos, it visitBd by spkiti oi ChHitmoi. Albart Fin- nay. Aloe Guinness, Dome Edith Evont. 1970. CD <29 CWcMta Trot ID 39 White © 19(3 American Cup €D <29 Weekend i © Adventure! Of Block 1 :30 PM O MOVIf: 'Who Done ItT' Bud and Lou turn de­ tective to solve a crime. Bud Ab­ bott, Lou Costello, Patrick Knowtes. 1942. (TD 69 (TO) Christmat CSPQRTS PRQBE) Most big bowls are over before New Year's Day Scholastic Sport* Acad. CD All Star Wrestling QD Pot Peeves CD (29 Toko 2 © ®) La Hora do la Decision 60 NFL '13 QD Orandma Didn't Wavo Bock 6D MOVIf: 'Mora Than • Miracle' A prince falls in love with a peasant girl much to the distaste of the Quean. Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Dot Rio. 1968. (29 Better Way €9 Going Great 1:00 PM 0 Chrittmat at Hio Paradise CD ESPN Boxing Specie! from Atlantic City, NJ CD Greateit Collage Jon Bond In America © SI © Newton'! CD Jetus Beloved Child CD The Sporting Life CD MOVIf: 'Author! Author!' ID (29 It Mokot CentS €D <29 Adventures in © €9 MOVIf: True Grit' Roos ter Cogburn battles injustice while contending with a prim 16- yeor old giri bent on reforming him. Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether. 1978. 2:00 PM OQD Sun Bowl: SMU vs. Alobomo O Country Sporttman O MOVIf: 'Pinion'* Rainbow' A leprechaun follows an Irish visionary, his daughter and o pot of gold to the United States. Fred Aitaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele. 1968 O (29 Son Bowl: SMU v*. CD MOVIf: The Hotly and Ivy' A country parson gath­ ers his family together at Christ­ mas and discovers that because of him they are ail unhappy. Ralph Rkhordson, Ceiia John­ son, Morgaret Letghton. 1953. CD Nature 'Voices in the Fo­ rest.' The highland people of Papua, New Guinea and their culture ore examined. (60 mi*.) [Closed Captioned] CD Christopher Celebration CD Charlie Roto Show BOWLS! BOWLS! BOWLSt -- Time was the year-end­ ing college bowl games were cen!ered around New Year's Day. wllh the Rose, Sugar. Orange and Cotton Bowls gelling all the cover age Today li s a different story Before we ring out the old year and drink In the new. 1! of the 16 major bowls will have taken place The Independence Bowl, the California Bowl, the Florida Citrus Bowf. Ihe Hall of Fame Bowl, the Holiday Bowl and the Sun Bowl are already part of history, and live more bowl games will be finished before the clock strikes 12 on Dec 3t. And the week leading up to the holidav is |ust chock / full of college teams stretching the season just one more game. On Dec 26. the Aloha Bowl will feature Penn Slate (7-4-1) vs Washing- Ion (8-3). beamed from Honolulu on Metro Sports and ESPN Boston College's surprising Eagles 48-2) meet the Fighting Irish ol Notre Dame (6-5) In the Liberty Bowl In Memphis Dec 29 on syndl caled Kate Sports-TV. The next day. Dec 30,, has two bowf present a lions The Gator Bowl In Jacksonville, Fla., sets Ihe University of Iowa (9 2) against Ihe UniversHy of Florida (7-2-1) on ABC. while Atlanta's Peach Bowl offers North Carolina (8 3) playing Florida Stale (6 4) on CBS On Dec 31. Ihe Blue bonnet Bowl stands alone with Oklahoma Slale (7-4) tackling Baylor (7-3-1) In Houston The Mlzlou TV network and ESPN air the action Al! these games lead up to Ihe big kids who wW play in the Rose. Sugar. Cotton and Orange Bowls on Jan 2 this year, surrendering the airwaves to Ihe pros on Sunday, Jan. 1.. for Ihelf money-making playoffs. (c)co«!»moc ( I