On deck: Twenty-seven of LSU’s 56 regular-season baseball games will be televised in 2013 by national and regional networks, LSU has announced. The Tigers’ televised games are part of the 15-year SEC contract with ESPN that also includes ESPN2, ESPNU, Fox Sports Net, Cox Sports Television and Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast. You can check out the complete season schedule and the lineup of televised games here.
Right at home: As soon as Emily London-Jones stepped into her office at Xavier University on Monday morning, co-workers engulfed her in a way that the San Francisco 49ers could never seem to encircle her son, Jacoby. She had slept little. Phone messages had piled up. It would hardly be a normal morning in the student financial aid office, where London-Jones is the director. Then again, it is not every day that your son scores two touchdowns in the Super Bowl in a celebrated return to his hometown. A sign on a conference room door proclaims “Super Bowl Champion Mom.” Read the full feature by The New York Times here.
Squeezed at the pump: The Energy Department says U.S. households spent an average of $2,912 on gasoline in 2012, or almost 4% of their pretax income, the highest percentage in 30 years. That hike came despite the fact that Americans consumed less fuel in 2012 for a variety of reasons, including more efficient driving habits and higher-mileage vehicles. “The effect of the higher prices in 2011 and 2012 outweighed the effect of reduced consumption,” the Energy Department says. The Los Angeles Times has the full story here.
