Sports Fans Could Find Weekend Fare Sight for Sore Eyes

What a weekend for sports viewing. Consider:

--ABC, beginning its college football season a week ahead of CBS, offers fourth-ranked UCLA against No. 1 Oklahoma Saturday at 12:30 p.m., followed at 5 p.m. by Florida State against Nebraska.

--CBS, meanwhile, wraps up the U.S. Open tennis with women’s semifinals today, women’s final and men’s semifinals Saturday, beginning at 8 a.m., and the men’s final Sunday at 1 p.m.

--HBO televises a heavyweight title fight between Michael Spinks and European heavyweight champion Steffen Tangstad of Norway Saturday night at 7.

--The NFL season begins Sunday, and with the Rams and Raiders both on the road, Los Angeles gets a rare tripleheader. The 10 a.m. games are the Rams vs. the St. Louis Cardinals on CBS and the Cleveland Browns, 4-0 during the exhibition season, facing the Chicago Bears on NBC, followed by the Raiders’ game at Denver.

Add NFL tripleheader: One bad thing. If the Browns and Bears are involved in a tight game that runs past 1 p.m., L.A. viewers won’t see the finish.

The NFL requires that NBC show all of the Raider game in Los Angeles, starting with the kickoff. So be prepared for the worst--a cutaway at the wrong time.

Nahan returns: Former Channel 4 sportscaster Stu Nahan will return to the airwaves Oct. 7. He has been hired by radio station KABC to do sports reports on the morning “Ken and Bob Co.” show, two each hour from 6 to 9 a.m.

Tommy Hawkins used to do the sports on the show before leaving the station last March. Eric Tracy has been filling in since then.

Not the Mets again: Even though the New York Mets have run away and hidden from the rest of the National League East, NBC seems determined to force them upon viewers. The Mets will be making their eighth NBC appearance of the season and fourth since Aug. 16 Saturday when they play the San Diego Padres.

Fortunately, NBC has now used up its quota of Met telecasts.

Scores aplenty: NBC plans to graphically display all NFL scores during game telecasts every 10 minutes this season. Executive producer Michael Weisman is calling his idea the “10-minute ticker.”

Said NBC spokesman Kevin Monaghan: “Viewers may be watching a game on CBS, but they’ll know that they can switch to NBC at 10 minutes after the hour, 20 minutes after the hour and so forth and get all the scores.”

During a three-hour telecast, there will be 18 updates.

Prediction: NBC sportscaster Charlie Jones, who does the television play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks during the exhibition season, is so impressed with rookie quarterback Sean Salisbury that he says Salisbury may replace Dave Krieg as the starter by the sixth game of the season.

“If the Seahawks are 3-2 or worse, I think you’ll see Salisbury in there,” Jones said. “Not only were his stats very good during the preseason, he looked very good, too, in all areas.”

Next week: USC’s opener against Illinois at the Coliseum Sept. 13 will be nationally televised by WTBS. The game will start at 4 p.m.

The CBS game on Sept. 13 is Ohio State at Washington, with coverage beginning at 11:30 a.m. At noon, ABC offers Michigan at Notre Dame.

Notes Announcers on the UCLA-Oklahoma telecast Saturday will be newcomer Corey McPherrin, play-by- play, and Lynn Swann, analysis. McPherrin, a sports anchor for WABC in New York, will continue to work for the station as time permits. . . . In the booth for the Florida State-Nebraska game will be Keith Jackson and Tim Brandt. . . . The UCLA-Oklahoma game was originally scheduled for Sept. 13, but was moved to Saturday at ABC’s request. ABC wanted to show it in prime time, but Oklahoma officials would not agree to that. . . . Oklahoma, concerned about season-ticket sales, is limiting itself to 10 football telecasts over the next two seasons, five a season. A sixth could be added under special circumstances. The Sooners made 15 TV appearances the last two seasons. . . . Pitt, which had 9 of its 11 games televised last season, is also cutting back. The school will not allow any regional syndicated telecasts. One problem, school officials said, is that television usually changes the kickoff time.

The announcers for the Ram-Cardinal game Sunday will be Verne Lundquist and Pat Haden. It’s Haden’s first pro assignment. . . . Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen will announce the Cleveland-Chicago game for NBC, and Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy will work the Raider game. . . . The Raiders’ pregame radio coverage on flagship station KRLA has been expanded. Coverage Sunday will begin at 11:15 a.m. with “Raider Notebook.” . . . The Raiders’ 10-station network now includes KIK-fm (94.3) in Orange County. . . . The Raiders’ Spanish-language announcers are Jorge Berry and former NFL kicker Benny Ricardo. Because of a Dodger conflict, KLVE-fm (107.5), sister station to KTNQ, will carry Sunday’s game.

Mike Tyson, who will fight Alfonso Ratliff in a 10-rounder Saturday on the Michael Spinks-Steffen Tangstad card at the Las Vegas Hilton, is scheduled to box Trevor Berbick for the World Boxing Council title on HBO in early November, also at the Las Vegas Hilton. . . . George Allen now has his own weekly show on “SCORE,” the sports arm of the Financial News Network. It makes its debut this Sunday at 5:30. Allen also will be a regular guest on Bob Seizer’s “Sports Look” program on ESPN, starting Monday at 3 p.m. . . . KFOX-fm’s morning “Sports Forum,” with Fred Wallin and Bill McDonald, is expanding from half an hour to an hour, 7 to 8 a.m., on weekdays beginning Monday. The Sunday night edition remains 7 to 8. . . . Channel 5 has added an Angel home game against Texas on Friday, Sept. 26, to its television schedule.