Content about Television

ESPN representatives John A. Walsh and Wright Thompson will participate in a “Riding the Sports Circuit” forum in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Auditorium today.

Walsh is the executive vice president and executive director of ESPN, while Thompson is the senior writer for ESPN.com.

Mickey McLauren, director of sponsored programs administration at Ole Miss, was selected for the chance to prove his knowledge on the TV game show Jeopardy.

The episode he is featured in will run tonight.

At Ole Miss, McLaurin helps faculty and staff secure funding from grants, contracts and other places (such as federal, state, private and foundation sources) in order to fund research and educational activities at the University.

He has been at Ole Miss since 1996 and has been in the ORSP department since 2000.

Students interested in taking a shot at becoming the next star on campus may have an opportunity in the near future.

The Student Programming Board, the Department of Campus Programming and Papa John’s Pizza will host the seventh-annual Ole Miss Idol talent competition starting Wednesday.

The competition will be held at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Food Court. The public is invited to attend all four rounds at no charge, and Papa John’s Pizza will provide free pizza each night.

Skins, to say the least, is highly controversial: I’ll give it that. It’s also grotesque to watch. Of course, I’m not the target audience, and I’ll even go so far to say that it’s certainly not a show I would encourage (or even allow) my daughter to watch (much less admit that she might re-enact on her own some day).

She is only six, and of course by the time she’s a teenager, a nunnery will be mandatory.

I read something pretty disturbing the other day.

Apparently in New York, there is a spat between the Fox Network and Cablevision, a cable service provider. It has even gone so far as for Cablevision to stop broadcasting Fox’s content.

Now, this happens from time to time when networks and cable service providers fail to negotiate pricing for content.

Basically, what happens is an elementary school equivalent fight where only the consumer loses.

Roosters bartender and bouncer Derek Redmond may have what it takes to be a star. This summmer, he made it all the way to the fourth round of American Idol. 

An Oxford native, Derek graduated from Oxford High School in 2003 and took online classes at The University of Mississippi.

Allison Croghan hasn’t had the typical college-student experiences. After studying abroad in London during the spring semester, the Ole Miss senior broadcast journalism major immediately moved back to the states into a three-month summer internship with television’s largest sports network, ESPN. 

Dexter McCluster breaks an arm tackle...

Director: Phillip Noyce

Run Time: 1 hour 39 minutes

Body Count: Apocalyptic

Sequel: Based on the end, inevitable
3 stars

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who seems like she has a good thing going for her.

OK, let’s take a moment to not bash Tony Hayward and BP (or at least I’ll try).

This is about the poor, defenseless sea animals of the Gulf: the sea turtles, the countless fish, shrimp and crustaceans, the sea gulls that fly about and yes, that yellow sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea.