The true test of a team or an athlete is how they perform in a
crisis, when the game goes off script and the improv begins.
Unfortunately, CBS Sports doesn’t recruit from the Groundlings
or Second City. Because when it came time to ad lib, its
announcers stumbled badly on the biggest stage of all, the Super
Bowl, won last night by Baltimore over San Francisco, 34-31.  No
one expected the lights to go out in the New Orleans Superdome,
needless to say. The 34-minute delay was embarrassing for the
league and the arena’s operations staff, but it was CBS who came
off worst. It was bad luck that game announcers Jim Nantz and
Phil Simms, the two men seemingly best equipped to handle some
vamping, were on the side of the stadium that lost power. So a
confused nation was greeted after an ad break by sideline
reporter Steve Tasker, who gamely tried to explain what was
happening. Unfortunately, he wasn’t up to the task of gathering
news and relaying information on the fly, which is supposed to
be his raison d’etre. His