Many years ago — actually BBT (Before Boob Tubes) — a talented comedian recorded a tongue-in-cheek monologue about the growing popularity of football (baseball was then still the national sport). He explained, in his country-boy way, how he attended a game and was swept along by a rather frightening crowd making their way into a place where a bunch of seats surrounded a cow pasture marked with white lines. ...more

December 26, 2009

Baby Einstein videos were marketed with a promise many parents found irresistible: Park your kid in front of the television, and let us make him or her, if not a genius, then at least above average. ...more

November 6, 2009

Tropicana Field renovations for $471 million? That's one spicy meatball! ...more

June 20, 2009

The CW television network is shutting down on Sunday nights. ...more

May 5, 2009

More than 400 hundred television stations across the nation switched from analog to digital on Feb. 17 and hundreds more will make the transition on June 12, leaving millions of bewildered viewers asking what happened to their "Matlock" reruns. ...more

February 22, 2009

WFLA, Channel 8, the NBC affiliate in the Tampa Bay area, will hold off unplugging its analog television signal until June 12, the new date envisioned for the nation's switch to digital TV. ...more

February 9, 2009

Watching television with your children may prove to be a good investment of your time. ...more

November 16, 2008

My daughter is a puppy. A spotted puppy. It's an important distinction. Her breed may be a mystery, but her markings have been mapped with a surveyor's precision. She has a black ring around her right eye, three spots on her rump, a spot on her left rear "paw" and a black-tipped tail. ...more

October 26, 2008

"Switch," by Carol Snow (Harper Teen, $17) A teen's life is complicated enough without the burden of swapping bodies during every lightning storm. In "Switch," author Carol Snows uses this device to communicate the awkward body ideals plaguing young women. ...more

October 19, 2008

So this past weekend I saw the new Batman movie. I have been a Batman fan since I was watching reruns of Adam West in my Underoos. ...more

July 23, 2008