The Week In Tv Sports

Saturday 10/11

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Florida at Auburn
Tennessee at Alabama
Winn-Dixie: Southern supermarket chain or the state of Alabama's rallying cry? Both. This day-night SEC TV doubleheader begins on the Plain at Auburn, where the 6-0 Tigers face the newly humbled Gators (5-1). Auburn's offense is sparked by quarterback Dameyune Craig (above), who has four 300-yard passing games this season. Florida signal-caller Doug Johnson, who threw four interceptions in last Saturday's loss at LSU, must keep the ball away from Tigers linebacker Takeo Spikes. In Birmingham the ebbing Tide (3-2) will look to derail the Heisman hopes of quarterback Peyton Manning, who has led the Vols (4-1) to back-to-back wins over 'Bama.
? CBS, 3:30 PM; ESPN, 7 PM

BASEBALL
World Series
At week's end, this much we knew: The Fall Classic will take place entirely in the Eastern time zone (for the fourth straight Series), on natural grass and in baseball stadiums that didn't exist six years ago. In the National League city that hosts tonight's opener and Sunday night's Game 2, the pitchers will go to bat, which means (especially when the American League teams are at the plate) that the balmy breezes will not be exclusively attributable to the local climate. Changes in latitude, designated-hitter rules and sleeve length will occur for the weeknight Games 3, 4 and (if necessary) 5 in the American League park.
? NBC, 8:00 PM

Sunday 10/19
GOLF
Nike Tour Championship
Poor Bobby Wadkins. Bobby, 46, is the younger brother of 47-year-old PGA Tour mainstay and former Ryder Cup captain Lanny. Since 1975, Bobby has teed it up 606 times on the PGA circuit and 22 more on the Nike tour without tasting victory. The top 15 Nike money winners at season's end receive PGA Tour cards for the next year, and entering '97's final Nike tournament at Grand National in Opelika, Ala., Wadkins ranked 15th. Why not a card-clinching win? He's due.
? ESPN, 2 PM

Monday 10/20
DOCUMENTARIES
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Besides being celebrated in Mrs. Robinson, the Yankee Clipper (left, with fans in 1940) was also immortalized in the song Joltin ' Joe DiMaggio, a rendition of which is one of the many highlights of this ruminative program. Though all the bases of DiMaggio's 82 years are touched—the 56-game hitting streak, Marilyn Monroe, the 1949 return from injury—what resonates are the insights about this intensely private man. As fellow Yankees outfielder Tommy Henrich says, "He never seemed to be able to sit down with ballplayers and be one of them.
? HBO, 8 PM

Wednesday 10/22
HOCKEY
Red Wings vs. Mighty Ducks
Sergei Fedorov is AWOL—again. The former star of the Soviet Union's Red Army team, who defected in 1990 to play for Detroit, has defected from the Stanley Cup champions in a salary dispute unresolved at week's end. Before Detroit's season opener at Calgary, someone posted a Red Wings injury list on the Flames' dressing room chalkboard that read, " Kirk Maltby [who had a separated shoulder]" and " Sergei Fedorov (wallet)." Detroit began the season 4-0-1, but minus a better-off Fedorov, the Wings could have trouble matching the scoring of Anaheim wingers Teemu Selanne (left) and Tomas Sandstrom.
? ESPN2, 10:30 PM