Tigers vs. Hogs: LSU’s regular-season finale on Nov. 28 against Arkansas in Tiger Stadium will be televised by ESPN at 6 p.m. This will be the first time the Tigers and Razorbacks have played on a Saturday since 1996. A longstanding agreement with CBS to show the game the day after Thanksgiving has expired. LSU’s next game, Saturday at Ole Miss, will be televised by CBS at 2:30 p.m.
Other notables ‘netbook,’ ‘birther’ and ‘tramp stamp’: “Unfriend,” the act of removing someone as a friend from a social networking Web site, such as Facebook, was named as the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year. Officials with the dictionary noted the word is well known with the social networking world and it has potential longevity. Other finalists for word of the year came from technology, such as “netbook,” which refers to a small, very portable laptop; while others come from politics, such as “birther,” which refers to a conspiracy theorist who believes President Barack Obama was born outside the U.S.
