Mitchell High football team overcomes adversity

Mitchell High football team overcomes adversity
BAKERSVILLE — When six teenagers piled into a pickup truck on a warm Friday in August, they had no idea it was the beginning of an incredible journey of triumph and tragedy for a football team, a school and a community.
Read more on Asheville Citizen-Times

Taiwan Jones unwanted, except by EWU – Wed, 01 Dec 2010 PST
Considering all he has accomplished during his 3½-year stay at Eastern Washington University, the scarcity of college football options available to Taiwan Jones coming out of Deer Valley High School in Antioch, Calif., seems unfathomable.
Read more on The Spokesman-Review

Last Night’s TV: Al Murray’s German Adventure/ BBC4 Julia Bradbury’s German Wanderlust/ BBC4 I’m a Celebrity… Get Me …
It’s not the first programmes you think of when you’re planning a television season that cause the problems, it’s the last ones, as you scrape around trying to make up the numbers. Because the problem with a season – as a scheduling strategy – is that it provides a protective umbrella for all kinds of programme ideas that you’d never dream of commissioning as one-offs. And, from the viewer’s end …
Read more on Independent

Industry Roundup: Steve Carell Penning Post Office Comedy, Post-Office
The Post- Office: NBC has purchased a half-hour, single-camera comedy from departing Office star Steve Carell. The series, which Carell will write and executive produce, is based on the actor’s early days working as a mail carrier in Littleton, Massachusetts. It’s tentatively titled The Post-Graduate Project , and it centers on a small-town post office frequented by “a quirky but tight-knit …
Read more on Vulture