Miscellany

After 36 years on ABC-TV, the Pro Bowlers Tour will switch to CBS next year, The Miami Herald has learned.

It’s a one-year deal (with CBS holding a two-year option) and calls for eight telecasts. ABC had televised 13 to 26 events each year.

William Flynn, the athletic director at Boston College for 35 years, died Friday after a long illness. He was 82.

The new Idaho Stampede team (Nampa) in the Continental Basketball Association has signed its first player.

He’s Dennis Edwards, a graduate of Fort Hays State University who averaged 33 points per game in the United States Basketball League, a summer pro league based in the East.

A Cuban athlete at the Central America and Caribbean Athletics Championships has left the delegation and plans to seek asylum in the United States, a Cuban exile group said.

Guillermo Toledo, a lawyer who represents the exile group, identified the athlete as Jose Perez, who won a bronze medal Friday in the 400 meter hurdles.