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With the National Football League season completed, the networks turn to heavy doses of college basketball, golf, boxing and anthology series to fill the sports programming schedules until baseball season.

Southern California’s two top college basketball teams will be on view. Today, No. 20 Loyola Marymount heads east to face No. 14 LSU and Chris Jackson at 11 a.m. on Channels 2 and 8. No. 16 UCLA, smarting from its first loss to USC since 1985, tries to regain a measure of respectability when it plays host to DePaul at 1 p.m. on Channels 4, 36 and 39. Loyola Marymount returns to West Coast Conference play Sunday against San Francisco at 5 p.m. on SportsChannel.

“Wide World of Sports” (today at 4:30 p.m., Channel 7, 3 and 42; 3:30 p.m. Channel 10) features horse racing and boxing, including delayed coverage of Bill Shoemaker’s final race. “Wide World” also has delayed coverage of the Mike McCallum-Steve Collins World Boxing Assn. middleweight title fight and the first network showing of last month’s George Foreman-Gerry Cooney bout.

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Jorge Paez, considered colorful by his fans and an outrage by the boxing Establishment, defends his International Boxing Federation featherweight championship against Troy Dorsey on “Sports-World,” 10 a.m. Sunday, Channels 4, 36 and 39.

The biggest name in boxing this weekend is Donald Trump. The flamboyant multifaceted mogul has entered the pay-per-view business with a world championship triple-header at 6 p.m. tonight. The main event matches World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion Hector Camacho (38-0, 17 knockouts) against Vinny Pazienza (28-3, 23 knockouts). The card, carrying a suggested retail price of $19.95, will be available in 14 million homes, a record for a pay-per-view event.

The Professional Golf Assn. tour continues its California swing with the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, at 1 p.m. today and at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on Channels 2 and 8.

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