WBBM Channel 2 - TV 2 News at 10pm (Part 4, 1973)

Here's the fourth and final part of a complete edition of the TV 2 News at 10pm on WBBM Channel 2 with anchor Bob Wallace. Also featuring sportscaster Bruce Roberts. Includes:

Bob Wallace introduces Bruce's sports report, with a few attempts at speaking Spanish. Bruce's sports items include:

- College football sports scores (including Ohio State beating Illinois, 30-0)

- Highlights of Northwestern/Minnesota game (Minnesota Golden Gophers beat Northwestern Wildcats, 52-43)

- More college football scores

- Highlights of LSU/Mississippi match, courtesy ABC Network (LSU beat Mississippi, 51-14) (the picture quality of that clip seemed to suggest RCA TK-41C)

- Even more college football scores

- Film highlights of Western Illinois/Northern Illinois game (Western Illinois won, 30-27)

- Basketball scores, including Chicago Bulls beating Cleveland Cavaliers, 105-94

- Hockey scores, including Chicago Black Hawks losing to Minnesota North Stars, 5-4, and Chicago Cougars (of the World Hockey Association) beating Cleveland Crusaders, 7-4

- In golf, Ben Crenshaw has 1-shot, 3rd-round lead in Texas Open

- In baseball, Bud Harrelson of the New York Mets and Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds are fined $250 each for their roles in inciting a riot during Game 3 of the Mets/Reds NLCS playoffs on October 8th (an incident that was cited in Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo's 1986 book "The Baseball Hall of Shame 2" in the category "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game: The Most Flagrant Cases of Assault and Battery on the Field")

Bruce concludes by noting he's off to Detroit to cover the Lions' upcoming match against the San Francisco 49ers (the Lions won, 30-20), and Bob says good night with some Spanish mixed in

Commercial: Aamco Transmissions (tape cuts off halfway into commercial)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, November 3rd 1973 during the 10pm to 10:30pm timeframe.

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