SUNDAY
IndyCar Racing 1-3:30 p.m., WPBF-Channel 25 +594211, WPLG-Channel 10 +514969
After a steady diet of ovals, the IndyCar series hits the road — literally — for its first road-course race in nearly three months with today’s Camping World Grand Prix at the Glen from Watkins Glen, N.Y. Ryan Hunter-Reay, who won this race last year on the 3.4-mile road course at Watkins Glen International, will return to defend his title against a field that will include Helio Castroneves, Dario Franchitti, Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan, among others.
MLB Baseball 2-5 p.m., TBS +116327
Two teams that figure to battle for the National League Central crown close out a four-game series today at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Cubs manager Lou Piniella hopes his hitters soon shake out of a seasonlong slumber that has produced a .244 team average and been largely responsible for the Cubbies’ mediocre record. As for the Milwaukee Brewers, they’re leading the division, thanks in part to the late-inning heroics of all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman. Read the full story
Sure, we’d like you to think the big news with President Obama is how he’s working on the economy and all, but we’re pretty sure you’ve picked up on the true big story with the White House.
Our president has the greatest reflexes… IN. THE. WORLD.
Video of how he dispatched a fly is making its way around YouTube, and we’ve got some early looks at the incident.
An earlier version of this story wrongly implied that there’s no longer any concrete need for a rabbit-ears antenna. Although the antennas are far less popular today because of the prevalence of satellite dishes and cable TV, they can still be used to receive broadcast signals on an older analog or newer digital television. But because of the switch to digital transmission,
those viewers with older analog sets will also need a digital converter box.
It is perhaps the last symbol of America’s analog age, a V-shaped thingamajig that once helped bring the wonderment of television into millions of American homes. But as of Friday, the rabbit-ears antenna seemingly took its place atop the trash heap of history, joining such once-prized tools of ‘modern’ living as the rotary phone and eight-track player.
In this case, the cause of death was the final ascendancy of digital transmission. On Friday, viewers who did not possess a digital television or had not converted an analog set for digital use ‹ found themselves facing certain jeopardy (or, more accurately, facing a world without Jeopardy!). By early morning, local TV stations started making the government-mandated
switch from analog to digital, a much-publicized change years in the works. For an unlucky few who didn’t heed the warnings, there was no more catching the big game, no more laughing through another Seinfeld rerun, no more
falling asleep to the 11 o’clock news.
SUNDAY, JUNE 14
MLB Baseball 1:30-4:30 p.m., TBS +652179
Interleague play, like business, can make for some odd pairings, but that doesn’t apply to tonight’s rubber game of a three-game set at Fenway Park between two teams with a historical link, the Boston Red Sox and Atlanta (formerly Boston) Braves. While the Red Sox are near the top of the American League in most major offensive categories, they’re still puzzling over the precipitous decline of slugger David Ortiz, who at 33 is hitting more like a 43-year-old.
Ah, that Michael Scott. Dunder Mifflin just wouldn’t be the same without the socially inept Scranton branch manager. Like fools? He’s a big one… that’s what she said!
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