Game dates and times are subject to change and to final agreement with TV partners.

"We realized we weren't acting in the best interests of our TV partners."

Mr Zeno, while eating the meat taken from his TV partner, said: "It's not so good.

Columnist friends and TV partners gathered their wagons, and counterattack weapons, around him.

If that were the case, he said, those discussions would "take place privately with our TV partners."

"Julius should have been practicing more basketball," Cunningham told his TV partner, Bill Russell.

In it, Madden and a TV partner describe how a "blooming onion," one of the restaurant's dishes, revives an unconscious player.

However, as the season progressed, the TV partners began to skip some non-race events.

"What you have now are better games for our TV partners and the fans," Modell said.

"They are our national TV partner and they have been an excellent partner," he said.