November 22, 2006

One more day until Turkey day. How excited are you? I’m so stoked to have my uncle's amazing mashed potatoes. To be honest, I’m not a Thanksgiving food kind of person. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, yuck! But mashed potatoes…well they make the meal.

In Theaters:
Déjà vu
Deck the Halls
The Fountain
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

NASCAR Update:
MB2 is changing its name. Effective immediately, MB2 will now be called Ginn Racing. It’s home to Joe Nemechek in the #13, Sterling Marlin in the #14 and Mark Martin and David Regan sharing the #01 in 2007.

Congratulations to Roush Racing's Danny O’Quinn for winning the Raybestos Rookie of the Year award in the Busch Series beating veteran Cup driver, John Andretti. Congrats also go out to Roush’s Erik Darnell for picking up the Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Giants Update:
Tom Coughlin said no changes will be made to the New York Giants offense. Quarterback Eli Manning has been in a bit of a slump, but Coughlin believes in him and said that Manning will have to figure out a way to get out of his slump. Yeah, like Jared Lorenzen is a valid option. Coughlin also said he will not be making any coaching changes. Ok, we’ve lost two in a row, but before that we won five in a row. We’ve had a lot of injuries that you have to factor that in, and eventually Michael Straham, Osi Umenyiora and Co will be back.

Around Sports:
Baseball
Congratulations to Minnesota Twins first baseman, Justin Morneau for winning the 2006 American League MVP award over Yankee’s shortstop, Derek Jeter and Red Sox DH, David Ortiz. Morneau is just the second Canadian to win the honor. While the Twins didn’t win the World Series, they are certainly raking up the hardware. Morneau’s roomie, Joe Mauer won the AL batting title and Johan Santana won the AL CY Young. Both Mauer and Santana received MVP votes.

Basketball
It was a night of upsets as Georgia Tech defeated #12 Memphis 92-85 in the EA Sports Maui Invitational, while #13 Marquette beat #9 Duke 73-62 to capture the CBE Classic championship. Don’t worry, Blue Devils fans, we’re young and it’s early. At least that’s what I’m telling myself!

Football
Thursday night will be the first game broadcast live on the NFL network this season, but don’t run to your television too quickly. Only an estimated 40 million out of a possible 114 million Americans will have access to the game. Currently, Time Warner, Cablevision and Comcast Cable have been unable to strike a deal with the network and it doesn’t seem like they’ll have one in place by Turkey Day. Oh well, it’s only the Broncos and Chiefs.

Around the World:
First daughter, Barbara Bush’s purse was stolen in a restaurant in Argentina. The Secret Service were reportedly present but hanging back to give her some privacy. Bush was not near her purse at the time of the theft. Someone is so getting fired for this.

Popo in my crib News:
Antonio Bryant was arrested for reckless driving, driving while intoxicate and resisting arrest on Sunday night. The San Francisco 49ers wide receiver was clocked going over 100 MPH in his orange Lamborghini. I think the real tragedy is the orange Lamborghini. Watch out Antonio, because the popo are on your tail!

Celebrity Tid Bits:
TV ALERT: Real World:Denver premieres tonight on MTV at 10 PM/est

TV ALERT: Rascal Flatts will be performing “What Hurts the Most” and “Me and My Gang” on a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday.

TV ALERT: Carrie Underwood will be performing during the halftime show of the Dallas Cowboys v. Tampa Bay Buccaneers game on Thanksgiving.

According to tmz.com, the remake of Revenge of the Nerds starring Laguna Beach alum, Kristen Cavalleri has been shut down permanently just weeks into production.

Happy Birthday shout outs to Mark Ruffalo (39), Mariel Hemmingway (45) and Jamie Lee Curtis (48).

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I’ll be back on Monday.

It’s been fun blogging with you,

Kate