For Hall of Fame Weekend, Why Not a Hall of Shame?

What a weekend lineup:

--Seven pro football games, beginning with tonight’s Denver-Seattle game on ABC and concluding with Monday night’s Ram-Raider game.

--Four pro basketball games, among them two involving the Lakers and one pitting the Boston Celtics against the Philadelphia 76ers.

--Eight college basketball games, among them Saturday night’s UCLA-Miami (Fla.) game at Pauley Pavilion.

--Four college football games, among them the Cherry and Independence bowls on Saturday, and San Diego’s Holiday Bowl on Sunday evening.

--Plus Davis Cup tennis, hockey, boxing, indoor soccer, golf and more.

You might call it a Hall of Fame weekend of sports viewing.

It’s also a Hall of Shame weekend. One of the highlights will be Fred Roggin’s year-end Hall of Shame show, which will be televised during the Channel 4 Sunday night sports wrap-up show beginning about 11:20 p.m.

Add Hall of Shame: Roggin’s popular weekly segments run a minute or two. Sunday’s show will run 8 1/2 to 9 minutes.

Roggin said that he and editor Steve Pomerantz spend about five hours putting a regular weekly segment together, which includes searching through 20 to 25 tapes at triple speed.

Roggin said he and Pomerantz and a staff that includes producers Kevin LaBeach and Mike Cunningham will put in seven full days on the year-ender before its ready to be shown.

The show, which will offer the year’s best Hall of Shame footage, will include Roggin’s favorite shot--gymnast Brian Meeker running smack into a pommel horse. Then there’s Terrence Burner of Anchorage, Alaska--he’s no Evel Knievel--attempting, and failing, to jump 20 cars with a snow plow.

“I heard about that and called a TV station in Anchorage to get the footage,” Roggin said.

There’ll also be the “Joaquin Tall” segment on Joaquin Andujar’s tirades during the seventh game of the World Series, more on the elephant races that were shown a few weeks ago, and the play at last Saturday’s California Bowl in which Bowling Green and Fresno State players tipped the football in the air nine times before a Fresno State player finally grabbed it.

And much more. “Nine minutes of air time is an eternity,” Roggin said.

Add Roggin: Many people say he is the best of the sports anchors in Los Angeles. It’s hard to argue the point.

What sets him apart is his wit, his cleverness, his creativity and his ability take a different approach without being amateurish or corny.

He’s one sportscaster who is also a good writer.

Roggin also tried his hand at play-by-play for the first time this year, working two exhibition Raider games for Channel 4 and three regional NFL telecasts for NBC.

“Fred is a very talented young man,” said Stu Nahan, Channel 4’s sports director. “I think we complement each other pretty well. Fred’s strength is features and things like Hall of Shame. My thing is hard news.”

Roggin, only 28, has been at Channel 4 for five years. He came to the station in December of 1980 from the NBC affiliate in Phoenix, his hometown. Nahan had seen his work and recommended him for the job.

There have been rumblings that he and Nahan don’t get along all that well, that Nahan might be a little jealous of the fast-rising Roggin.

Said Roggin: “Stu and I get along fine. We’ve had our fights, but once anyone gets to know Stu well they realize he is a very decent human being. Down deep, Stu is a doll.”

Said Nahan: “Sure, we’ve had our differences, but we get

along. I get along with everybody.”

No surprise here: Howard Cosell has asked to forgo his 1986 commitments with ABC Sports and the network has agreed to his request.

Cosell was scheduled to work the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Tournament of Champions tennis tournament in New York.

Mr. Cool: Did you catch Jim McMahon wearing sunglasses on “NFL Today” last Sunday? It apparently didn’t go over too well with some of the people on the set.

At one point, Brent Musburger suggested he take off the shades. McMahon refused, saying he needed them because of the glare of the studio lights.

Of course.

Ratings game: Here’s another example of Los Angeles viewers not watching a game even though it involves a local team. Last Saturday’s UCLA-St. John’s game on CBS drew a solid national Nielsen rating of 5.7, but only did slightly better in L.A., drawing a 5.9.

New Yorkers may be even less provincial. The game drew only a 5.2 there.

Notes Channel 56 is offering a one-hour pregame show before Monday night’s Ram-Raider game. The show, “Countdown to the Showdown,” will have Bob Elder as host and will offer interviews, features and a call-in segment. . . . Christmas Day matchup: The Boston Celtics vs. the New York Knicks on CBS at 12:30 p.m. . . . A special on WTBS Saturday night at 7:20 p.m. called “Headlines, Heroes and the Heisman” will take a look back at the Southeastern Conference football season. Included in the show is a profile of Bo Jackson, as if we needed another one. . . . Anaheim’s Freedom Bowl Dec. 30 will be blacked out in Los Angeles unless at least 55,000 tickets are sold. Figure on the game being blacked out. . . . Saturday’s Cherry and Independence bowls, which are being syndicated by the Mizlou network, will be carried by Channel 11 in Los Angeles and Channel 51 in San Diego. The USA cable network is also televising the games, but the USA telecasts will be blacked out in areas where commercial stations are carrying the games.

Fountain Valley sports packager Roy Englebrecht has announced his second “So You Want to Be a Sportscaster for a Night” promotion, which offers amateur sportscasters the opportunity to work a college basketball broadcast on radio. The promotion will start Jan. 2. The fee is $250, down from $350. Only three people signed up for the first such promotion. . . . ABC sportscaster Al Michaels, a graduate of Hamilton High School in West Los Angeles and a resident of the Bay Area since the early ‘70s, is moving back to Southern California. He and his wife, Linda, recently bought a home in Brentwood. They plan to move around Feb. 1. . . . ABC’s Beano Cook, on why he dislikes flying: “All I know is the first word you see at an airport is terminal .”

Valley Cable, one of the biggest cable companies in Southern California, has added Dodgervision to its channel lineup. Now through Jan. 10, Valley Cable is offering the 25-game package, valued at $170.75, for $79.95. . . . Pepperdine will play SMU tonight in the Kentucky Invitational basketball tournament and the game will be televised by Channel 63 in Ventura on a three-hour tape-delayed basis at 6 p.m. The game also will be carried at 6 by Storer Cable--on Channel 8 in the Malibu area and on Channel 6 in the Conejo Valley. . . . If the Waves win tonight and play Kentucky Saturday in the tournament final at 5, that game will be shown on the same outlets. . . . Prime Ticket will televise next Thursday night’s exhibition between the Kings and the Soviet Union.

Racing will return to Santa Anita next Thursday, and the track’s new radio station, KWIN, will be back on the air. The station provides race calls by Trevor Denman, who also offers prerace and postrace comments. Mike Willman and Bill Kolberg offer interviews and analysis. . . . “Racing From Santa Anita” will begin on Channel 56 with a preview show Christmas Night at 7:30. . . . ESPN will televise 18 horse races in 1986, including two from the Santa Anita meeting--the Strub Stakes Feb. 2 and the Santa Anita Handicap March 2.