Why do the Lions and Cowboys always play football on Thanksgiving?

Really interesting article on MentalFloss.com about why the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always end up playing NFL football games on Thanksgiving…

Who will be the new host of NBC’s “Meet the Press”?

By Matea Gold
LATimes.com
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Reporting from New York — NBC executives are closing in on a decision about who will take over “Meet the Press,” its venerable Sunday morning political talk show, with the announcement coming possibly on Dec. 7.

According to network sources, that may be Tom Brokaw’s last day on the air as interim moderator of the program, a post he assumed after the sudden death of longtime host Tim Russert in June.

People close to the process said that they did not yet know who would be ultimately named to the job, arguably Washington’s most powerful journalistic perch. The deliberations have been closely guarded by NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker and NBC News President Steve Capus, who have not yet made a decision, said spokeswoman Allison Gollust.

Barring a last-minute surprise, network insiders and television news observers expect the new moderator — or moderators — will be drawn from a short list of candidates that include NBC chief White House correspondent David Gregory, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and NBC political director Chuck Todd. Dark horses include CBS anchor Katie Couric, whose name was floated in internal discussions, according to two sources, but is apparently not interested…

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