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LOS ANGELES, March 3 /PRNewswire/ — Nickelodeon’s 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards is set to explode with mega-star wattage, as pop sensation and 2007 KCA winner Miley Cyrus and Nickelodeon’s own The Naked Brothers Band will perform live at the awards show telecast from UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, Saturday, March 29 (8 p.m. ET; tape delay PT). Additional stars announced today include Cameron Diaz, Steve Carell, Shia LaBeouf, Harrison Ford, Chris Brown, Heidi Klum, Drake Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Ashlee Simpson, Miranda Cosgrove, America Ferrera, SNL’s Amy Poehler, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Howie Mandel, Josh Peck and Ryan Seacrest, among many others.
"Nickelodeon and the Kids’ Choice Awards are about showcasing all things that are hot and now with kids, and Miley Cyrus and The Naked Brothers Band rule with our audience," said Paula Kaplan, Executive Vice President, Talent and General Manager, West Coast, Nickelodeon. "We are very excited that they’ll perform live for the biggest kids’ audience of the year, and that talent like Cameron Diaz, Steve Carell, Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Brown, Hayden Panettiere and many others yet to be announced, will join in the revelry and chaos on the night where Hollywood will meet the slime."
Kids will be able to cast their vote online at http://www.nick.com/kca beginning Monday, March 3, in a total of 18 categories. Surprise awards also will be announced during the show.
Kids also will be able to vote via the Nick mobile website (wap.nick.com). Beginning Monday-Friday, March 10-14, a different category will be featured on-air each day, and kids can vote again for their favorite online at Nick.com.
Leading up to the award show, TurboNick, Nickelodeon’s broadband video service on Nick.com, will feature a Kids’ Choice Awards playlist, along with various clips from past awards shows and current promotions for the Nickelodeon’s 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards. Mini-site features of the KCA 2008 area in TurboNick will include KCA clips, quizzes, games, mash-ups and more. On the night of the live show, TurboNick will serve as the interactive broadband home base for all things Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards and will give kids an insider’s look at the entire live event: on the orange carpet, backstage and at the after party. Exclusive backstage webcams will give kids control of what they want to see. Free promotional Podcasts will be available on Nick.com for various media players. These Podcasts also will be available on the iTunes Music Store (http://www.itunes.com/) as free downloads to iPods.

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The 19th annual Savannah Music Festival , through Saturday. (912) 525-5050 or www.savannahmusicfestival.org.
The Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens final day, to benefit the Episcopal Church Women of Christ Church community outreach efforts and the Historic Savannah Foundation preservation projects. For a list of tours, special events, lectures and tickets: (912) 234-8054 or www.savannahtourofhomes.org.
ArmstrongFest 2008 final day, Buccaneer Region Sports Car Club of America Autocross, registration 10 a.m., walking course 11:30 a.m., drivers meet at noon, timed runs 12:15 p.m., Science Center parking lot, $25 Sports Car Club of America members and AASU students, faculty and staff, $25 plus $10 weekend members for all others, register at www.buccaneerregion.org/solo.html. ; stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf , 3 p.m., Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Masquers Chinese Theater, Armstrong Center, 11935 Abercorn St., Savannah, $10 general admission, AASU students with ID get in free. (912) 927-5381.
Eastman Gun Show , 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Savannah Civic Center, Liberty and Montgomery streets. $8, children 12 and under get in free. (912) 651-6556.
Little Theatre of Savannah presents The Mousetrap , 3 p.m., Seaboard Freight Station Theatre, 703D Louisville Road, Savannah. $20 adults, $15 seniors, students and military, $10 children 12 and under. (912) 631-3773.
Opera Overtures, Scenes and Arias featuring Il Barbieri di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville ), 3 p.m., Valdosta State University’s Whitehead Auditorium, 1500 N. Patterson St. Program features finalists from the 2007 Metropolitan Opera auditions including tenor Alek Shrader and baritone Nicholas Pallesen. $20. (229) 333-2150 or valdostasymphony.org.
Sunday dinner dance , 6 p.m., Jekyll Island Club Hotel, 371 Riverview Drive. Music by Wayne Tate’s Four and Easy dance band. $34.95. Reservations, (912) 635-2600.
Remote Control Car Club teaching the basics of remote control vehicles, 5-6 p.m. Mondays, Mildred Hunter Community Center, 509 S. Fry St., Valdosta. (229) 259-5437.

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The premieres of Dancing with the Stars and The Bachelor led ABC to a ratings win Monday night with a 4.4 rating/12 share in the 18-49 demo.
Dancing averaged a 5.5 rating/9 share during its hour-and-a-half run, delivering the best ratings of the night, while The Bachelor drew a 3.3/9, finishing second in its time slot.
The numbers were down slightly from last year, when Dancing debuted with a 6 rating/15 share, giving ABC a 4.7/12 for the night.
Bolstered by the post-strike return of its comedy series , CBS came in second with a 3.9 rating/10 share in the demo. Big Bang Theory drew a 3.7/11, How I Met Your Mother drew a 4.3/11, Two and a Half Men drew a 5.4/13 and The New Adventures of Old Christine garnered a 4.3/11.
NBC finished third with a 2.5/7, with reality shows My Dad Is Better than Your Dad delivering a 1.5/4 in demo and Deal or No Deal starting off slow (thanks to Dancing) with a 2.4/6 before rebounding with a 3.4/8 during its second half. Medium drew a 3.2/9.
Fox finished fourth, drawing a 2.0/5, with Canterbury’s Law garnering a 1.6/5 and New Amsterdam delivering a 2.3/6.
The CW finished fifth drawing a 0.7/2, with a rerun of Gossip Girl drawing a 0.5/2 and The Search for the Next Pussycat Doll delivering a 0.7/2.

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• With Selection Sunday a week away, staff writer Dirk Chatelain updates his thoughts leading up to the NCAA basketball tournament:
Drake is in for an interesting - and potentially maddening - Selection Sunday, whether it wins or loses in the Missouri Valley tournament final today.
Draw a number between four and nine out a hat - you could be holding Drake’s seed for the NCAA tournament.
While we can safely project most of the teams in the field within one seed, the selection committee is notoriously unpredictable with mid-major profiles like Drake’s.
In 2007, Butler earned a No. 5 seed. Southern Illinois was a No. 4. But Nevada, projected by almost every bracket guru on the market as a 3-5 seed, was a No. 7. What’s the practical difference? Well, SIU went to the Sweet 16 without an upset. Butler beat No. 12 Old Dominion and No. 4 Maryland to do the same.
Nevada had to deal with No. 10 Creighton in the first round, then lost to a high-powered, second-seeded Memphis, in the second round.
Drake’s problem: its 2008 profile looks more like Nevada’s than Southern Illinois’.
An even better comparison might be SIU in 2005:
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Providence, RI (Sports Network) - Providence College has fired men's head basketball coach Tim Welsh on the heels of the school's third losing season in the past four years.
The Friars were 15-16 this past season, Welsh's 10th at the helm. Providence earned just two NCAA Tournament appearances and won exactly one Big East Tournament game during his tenure.
“I appreciate all the hard work and dedication that Tim has put into this program over the last 10 years,” said athletic director Bob Driscoll. “He represented the college with dignity and class. However, I felt that it was in the best interest of the program and Providence College to make a change in leadership.”
Welsh was named the 13th head coach of the Providence program on April 2, 1998. He led the Friars to an overall mark of 160-143 with a 72-92 record in Big East regular-season play. The team was just 1-9 in Big East Tournament action, including a loss to West Virginia in the first round of this year's tourney.

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North Sioux City, SD, March 16, 2008 –(PR.com)– Prizes include 6 VizioTM LCD TVs for Perfect Bracket, Sony Digital Camera, and more.
Dakota PC Warehouse, a retailer of computing and consumer electronics products, is inviting all college basketball fans to participate in a new, free, online tournament pool called Mad Brackets. Mad Brackets is hosted by DakotaPCWarehouse.com and sponsored by K2 Mounts Inc. and in this contest entrants will match their basketball prognostication skills against other self-proclaimed “bracketologists” in competition for thousands of dollars in prizes.
Mad Brackets is open to individuals as well as groups and entry is free. Prizes will be awarded to the winners who accumulate the most points simply by selecting the winning teams in the upcoming men’s college basketball tournament beginning on March 20, 2008. First prize is a 32-inch Vizio LCD TV. Second prize is a Sony digital camera, and third prize is a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse.
In addition, DakotaPCWarehouse.com and K2 Mounts are offering a special grand prize to any person who records a perfect score by correctly selecting all the winning teams in every round of the tournament. Mad Brackets also contains a special twist whereby prizes can be awarded after every round of the tournament. For each tournament round in which an individual maintains a perfect score, the contestant will win an additional and progressively larger Vizio LCD TV. For example, a perfect score in the first round wins a 20-inch Vizio LCD TV while a perfect score in the both the first and second rounds will earn a 20-inch and a 32-inch Vizio LCD TV. The prize package for a perfect score through all six rounds of the tournament will include six Vizio LCD TVs featuring screen sizes of 20, 32, 37, 42, 47, and 52-inches, respectively, plus wall mounting brackets from K2 Mounts.

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SUDBURY, ON — A total eclipse of the Moon will occur on February 20, 2008. Science North, Laurentian University and the Sudbury Astronomy Club will be hosting a star party at Science North starting at 7 p.m. The event will include an astronomy presentation in the Science North Gold Room. If it is clouded over, efforts will be made to watch the eclipse live, via the web.
This free event is open to anyone who would like to attend. Interested individuals can also call the Science North Star Party Hotline at 522-3701 ext. 243, after 6 p.m. on the night of the event, to get more details.
A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth’s shadow. The February 20th eclipse will begin at approximately
8:43 p.m. and last until 12:09 a.m., and will be visible throughout the Americas as well as Western Europe, Africa and Western Asia.
A total eclipse of the moon can only take place during a full moon, and often produces colorful changes in the Moon’s appearance — from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and rarely, very dark grey.
The most recent total eclipse happened on August 28, 2007 when the Sun, Earth and Moon were in total alignment. The next opportunity to witness another total lunar eclipse will not take place until December 21, 2010.
For more information, please visit http://www.sudburyastronomyclub.com

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