A consumer's guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise. Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it's in play here.

A consumer’s guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise. Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it’s in play here.

By LARRY STEWART

Dec. 30, 1999 12 AM PT

What: “CBS’ Greatest Sports Moments”

When: Tonight, 8-9, CBS

This one-hour special does not include all the great moments in sports during the past half-century, but it does include plenty. CBS was there for Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary pass against Miami in 1984, for Christian Laettner’s game-winning shot for Duke against Kentucky in 1992, for Dwight Clark’s catch for the San Francisco 49ers’ in the 1982 NFC championship game against Dallas, for Tiger Woods’ runaway victory at the 1997 Masters.

Sure, the show is self-serving. But it is also entertaining.

Jim Nantz and Greg Gumbel serve as co-hosts, but also included are former “NFL Today” cast members Brent Musburger, Phyllis George and Irv Cross. They were reunited in Las Vegas recently to tape a segment for the show.

CBS Sports has been in existence since 1947, and through its years of covering the NFL, college football, college basketball, the NBA, the Masters, tennis’ U.S. Open, baseball and the Winter Olympics, there was a lot of material for this show.

CBS used to do horse racing too, and it covered Secretariat’s run to the Triple Crown in 1973. That will be part of the show. So will Walter Cronkite talking with Walt Disney at the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif., speedskater Dan Jansen’s triumph at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Tara Lipinski winning in Nagano, Japan, in 1998.

Of course, the 1994 Winter Olympics were dominated by the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding story, which will be revisited tonight.

CBS was there for the incredible triple-overtime thriller between the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics in the 1976 NBA finals. CBS also covered the 1967 “Ice Bowl,” the NFL championship game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys.

CBS also televised Muhammad Ali’s loss to Leon Spinks in 1978, before pay per view.