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In addition to broadcasting sports, Shane participates in them as well.

Glenn Triest

WHAT A SPORT!

Sportscaster Don Shane has returned to Detroit
with a job he's long coveted.

MIKE ROSENBAUM

Special to The Jewish News

on Shane enjoyed
his broadcasting
stint in Boston, but
he may think twice
about returning
there. A former WDIV sports-
caster, Shane recently return-
ed to Detroit as lead sports-
caster for WXYZ, following
jobs in Chicago and Boston.
One of his first actions with
WXYZ was to return this
spring to Boston to do his
broadcast from the Boston

Garden, where the Pistons
were playing the Celtics in
the National Basketball
Association playoffs.
Twenty seconds before
Shane was to do his final
broadcast from Boston, a
Garden worker accidentally
cut the electricity for Shane
and other journalists.
Actually, Shane did not
need that omen to convince
him to stay in Detroit. Even
while he worked in Boston
"the possibility of coming
back and being a member of
this community again did

cross my mind occasionally,
mostly when my job covering
teams brought me back to the
area, which was quite fre-
quent," he says. "I was in for
Celtic games; I was in for Red
Sox games."
Steve Garagiola's decision
to stop doing the 5 and 11
p.m. sportscasts at Channel 7
triggered Shane's move. Little
did he know, when he ac-
cepted the post, that
Garagiola would be gone
before Shane arrived, adding
the 6 p.m. broadcast to
Shane's workload.

it, see it, do some interviews,
meet the players, meet the
coaches.
"After all, a lot of things
have changed since I was
here; it's been six years. I just
think that's important for me,
to once again throw myself
back into the community,
back into the sports scene as
much as I can."
Being a number one sport-
scaster is "a goal that I set for
myself," Shane says. However,
"My dreams are not really
professionally oriented as
much as they are personally
oriented. I dream about hav-
ing a great life with my wife
(Mona) and my kids (Justin,
3, and Lindasy, 6 months) and
for them to grow up and be
happy."
Away from the set, Shane
enjoys playing racquetball,
basketball, a "tremendous
amount of golf," in the sum-
mer and going skiing in the
winter. He likes to read, or to
go with friends to dinner and
to movies.
Shane, who was the only
Jewish sportscaster in
Boston, knows of no other city
where the top sportscasters
are all Jewish. (Eli Zaret at
Channel 2 and Bernie
Smilovitz at Channel 4 also
are Jewish.) "It might not
happen in Jerusalem," he
jokes. "There's probably no
rhyme or reason for it; it's just
the way that it happened."
Shane grew up in Baltimore
with an interest in sports,
both as participant and spec-
tator. But he did not consider
a sports media career until
his third year at the Univer-
sity of Maryland. He took
journalism and radio-TV-film
courses as electives, although
he considered going to law

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"It is a tremendous amount
of work," Shane says. "I'm
really pouring myself,
basically, into my work. Only
because I feel like there's a lot
to be done. I want to do
everything I can to become
visible again in the communi-
ty. I've worked nearly every
day since I've been here. I've
had maybe two or three or
four days off (in his first six
weeks). I've been going to as
many events as I possibly can.
Just to go there, be a part of