If -- or perhaps when -- Mike Tranghese begins looking for a new job, he might move to England and try the BBC, where sensitivity has been taken to lengths that even women's basketball hasn't yet considered. Earlier this month, a young man called Damon Rose was awarded a prized position with BBC- TV. He won out over 350 other applicants for two years of training to become a television director.

Did we mention that Damon Rose is blind?

As one veteran TV director put it, with typical Brit understatement: "I think doing this when you're blind will pose a problem."