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Saturday is for couch potatoes
Big TV weekend coming up — for anyone who cares about sports and hurricanes. And isn’t that all of us, really?
Not that Florida’s pending weather disaster can be construed as entertainment.
But for millions of weather nerds, Wilma is big excitement.
Weather nerds? Yes, those of us who find ourselves watching the Weather Channel more than we should and plotting the longitude-latitude course of every single storm. We’re weather nerds. We know that orange is worse than yellow, red is worse than orange and purple is the worst of all on color weather radar.
I’m counting on plenty of updates and “crawls” throughout tomorrow’s important sporting events, so maybe I won’t have to wear out the Weather Channel numbers on my remote.
Saturday looks like a true couch potato marathon. I guess I’ll get up early and get all those troublesome chores out of the way — like exercising, grocery shopping, Halloween decorating, communing with the spouse.
First up for this TV spud is ABC’s coverage of the University of Texas and Texas Tech. The Nation’s Best College Quarterback, Vince Young, takes the field at 2:30 p.m.
Not long after the Longhorns crush Tech, the Houston Astros will begin their march to a World Series championship. Fox has that game, starting at 6:30 p.m. in Chicago, where the perpetual also-ran White Sox will be pumped for the challenge.
It’s going to be an eye-exhausting day, but I’m ready.
Nick fights fat
Nickelodeon is waging war against the kiddie bulge, committing $30 million and joining the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an effort to slim down the upcoming pudgy generation.
You won’t find a better introduction to this story than the one Lisa de Moraes wrote in the Washington Post, so check it out. First sentence is a classic.
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