DOMINICO'S
-RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE
2847 COOLIDGE, Between 11 & 12 Mile • Berkley
541-7670
ENTERTAINMENT
What A Sport!
Continued from preceding page
Introduces Its New
SUNDAY BRUNCH BUFFET
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Breakfast Fare
• Roast Beef
• Lasagna
• Italian-Style Chicken
• Fresh Vegetables • Fresh Fruit
• Assorted Pastas • Weekly Specials
• Etc. • Etc.
$ 95
$ 95
Adults
• No Coupons
Children
12 & Under
LUNCH BUFFET MON. THRU FRI. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
5 or MORE FEATURES EVERY DAY! $495
per person
HAPPY HOUR
MON. THRU FRI. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. SAT. 12 noon to 4 p.m.
• All Well Drinks $1.50
• All Draft Beef $1,00
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THE
BAR-B-Q HOUSE
AND
GRILL
(Formerly The Rib Shack)
PRESENTS OUR SUCCULENT
HAR•BROILED 1/2 CHICKEN
With French Fries, Cole Slaw and Roll'
45 With This Coupon
ALSO TRY
OUR DELICIOUS
RIBS, CHICKEN
AND SHRIMP
Reg. $5.45
Limit 4 Per Customer • Available on Charbroiled Chicken Dinner Only • Expires 7.27-89 • JN
355.3480
24545 W. 12 MILE RD., Just West of Telegraph (Next to Star Deli)
T COUPON
OFF
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$1000 or more per dinner in Dining Room
GOOD TUES. THRU SUN. I
Does Not Include Royal Gourmet Dinner or Catered Parties .]
SERVING CANTONESE, SZECHUEN (Hot & Spicy), EXOTIC DISHES, COCKTAILS
TUES. THRU
THURS.
SUMMER DINNER SPECIAL
SOUP, EGG ROLL, PAN-FRIED NOODLES, CHOICE OF $795
14 SELECTED DINNER ENTREES, DESSERT & HOT BEV.
9•COURSE ROYAL GOURMET DINNER
6 Person Minimum — By Reservation Only
$1750
/
per person
• 4s
PRIVATE BANQUET
FACILITIES FOR
ALL OCCASIONS
THE PANDA
5586 DRAKE, CORNER WALNUT LAKE RD, West Bloomfield
Drake Summit Shopping Center
661-1503
60
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1989
school. Instead he combined
his interest in communica-
tions and TV and media with
a love of sports. "I got lucky,"
he says about landing in
broadcasting.
After earning a master's
degree in journalism from the
University of Colorado, Shane
worked part-time at a Denver
radio station for a while, lived
with his parents and was
"just hanging" when he got
his first radio job at a "real
teeny tiny" station, KBDN,
in the west Texas panhandle,
outside of Amarillo, where he
did news, sports and high
school play-by-play.
Shane soon moved into
television sports with an
Oklahoma station where he
did the 6 and 11 p.m. broad-
casts. "I did everything," he
recalls, including shooting his
own film and tape, developing
the film and editing his own
material.
The experience "really gave
me an appreciation for the
business," Shane says. "It
helped me, too, because I
learned how to shoot and I
knew then, once I started get-
ting into bigger markets, the
kinds of things I was looking
for from photographers who
were shooting for me."
The bigger markets soon
beckoned. He moved to
Evansville, then got his big
break, a job at WTOP in
Washington, D.C. When he
moved to Washington, Shane
knew that it would be a
stopover of about one year on
his way to Detroit, because
the D.C. station was swapping
owners with Detroit's Chan-
nel 4. However, things moved
quickly and five months after
arriving in the nation's
capital, Shane and Mona
moved to Detroit and WDIV,
where he remained for six
years.
Now, in his second stint in
Detroit, Shane is putting his
stamp on the Channel 7
sportscasts.
"Everybody does high-
lights," he says, "and
everybody does bloopers. I
think there are certain things
you can say and do within a
game other than show home
runs and strikeouts. You can
show other things that might
be even more interesting than
that.
"I'm trying to say some
things and be opinionated
and have a feeling about
what's going on, certainly
without making any enemies.
I want to say what I think is
right and if I try to please
everybody I'll end up pleasing
nobody, including myself."
Despite the recent problems
in the Boston Garden, he will
continue to do his sportscasts
on location. "The more that I
Shane began his sportscasting career on radio.
can get myself out of the
studio and be at the event to
do my shows, the happier I'm
going to be. I want to be at the
event; I want to be visible at
the event . . . It's important
for the sports guy to get out
on location and be there .. .
I don't want to be tied to the
set every night."
Shane calls himself "very,
very lucky" to have covered
some of sports' top events, in-
cluding the Super Bowl and
the World Series. Covering
such events "is extremely in-
tense and tremendously com-
petitive and you're looking for
`Everybody does
highlights, he
says, `and
everybody does
bloopers. I think
there are certain
things you can say
and do.'
every edge to be different and
better than the other guy."
But he tries to take time to
enjoy those events. "The other
night in game 3 in the
Garden when the Celtics
were losing to the Pistons and
it was over, I was just kind of
sitting there at a time out,
just kind of leaning back,
looking up at the Garden and
taking it all in and going,
`This is a great event; this is
just a great thing to have ex-
periences' And life is about
experiences.
"I've had tremendous ex-
periences related to my job
and what I do. There are a lot
of closet sportscasters out
there, a lot of people that wish
that they were doing what
I'm going. And I only say that
because I've met a lot of 'em
and they've said it to me. And
I understand where they're
coming from. If I wasn't doing
this I'd probably be envious of
some guy who was."
The other side of the coin,
the business side of the TV
business, is tough for Shane.
As the station's lead sport-
scaster, he knows "they don't
fire the underlings when
things go wrong. They chop
off the head of the boss. This
is a cruel and many times
nasty, vicious business. It's
cutthroat; it's tremendously
competitive; the pressures are
enormous. You have to learn
how to deal with that."
Shane hopes for a long stay
in Detroit, which could
reduce those pressures.
"I'll be happy to remain at
this station, which is a power-
ful station, a terrific station;
I feel very comfortable here;
I feel very wanted and I feel
like they've made a commit-
ment to me and I've made a
commitment to them. And
you never know what's going
to happen in this business.
But right now I'd like to stay
here in this market, in this ci-
ty, for 15 or 20 years and
retire . . . So here I am.
Hopefully to stay. I don't plan
on leaving this time."0