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Sports historians call the $1920$ s the Golden Era of Sports, with newspapers glorifying athletes. Heroes, some with enduring fame, Included lack Dempsey in boxing Knute Rockne and lim Thorpe in football, and Babe Ruth in baseball. The $1920$ s also marked radio as a medlum for sports. In $1921$ KDKA of Pittsburgh carriled the first plav$-$bv$-$plav baseball game, the Davis Cup tennis matches and, blow$-$by blow, the Johnny Ray versus John Dundee fight. Sportwriter Grantland Rice, the pre$-$eminent sportswriter of the time, covered the entire World Series live from New York for KDKA, also in $1921.$ Sports magazines have their roots in American Turf Register, which began a $15-$vear run in Baltimore in $1829.$ Nothing matched the breadth and scope of Sports Illustrated, founded in $1954$ by magazine magnate Henry Luce. The magazine, launched with $350,000$ charter subscribers, now boasts a circulation of $3\mathrm{.}2$ million a week. Although televislon dabbled in sports from its early days, the introduction of Wide World of Sports in $1961$ established that television was made for sports and, conversely, that sports was made for television. The show, the bralnchild of ABC programming wizard Roone Arledge, covered an unpredictable diversity of sports, from ping$-$pong to skiling. In this period, professional athletic leagues agreed to modify their rules to accommodate television for commercial breaks and, eventually, to make the games more exciting for television audiences. Television commentator Les Brown explains sports as the perfect propram form for television: $"$At once topical and entertaining, performed live and suspensefully without a script, peopled with heroes and villains, full of action and human interest and laced with pageantry and ritual." $-$adapted from Vivian, The Media of Mass Communication, pp$.241-242$

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a value judgment.