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UA homecoming this weekend is
all about Wilbur the Wildcat - the
beloved and furry mascot turns
50 on Saturday.

The UA used real animals as
mascots off and on between the
early 1900s and the late 1950s
(with at least one tragic mishap),
until two UA students (Richard
Heller and John Paquette)
pitched the idea of using a
costume-wearing human.

Wilbur made his first appearance
at the UA vs. Texas Tech football
game on Nov. 7, 1959, and was
an immediate hit, according to a
UA Web site.

Wilbur's look has evolved over the
years. It was during one of those
costume makeovers that Wilma
the Wildcat was created.

She made her first public
appearance on March 1, 1986,
during a "blind date" with Wilbur.
The pair later "married" before an
Arizona-Arizona State football
game.

For a chance to win a a set of
three audio books, tell us the
date of their wedding.

Click here to submit your
answer.

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Find out what the Star's TV junkies think of your favorite shows including "The Office," "Heroes," "Prison Break" and more, plus the latest news from the small screen.

'Chuck' and 'Heroes' -- A perfect pair

10/02/2007 09:35 AM
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Last week, I was going to write a post specifically telling you how much I love, love, LOVE “Chuck,” NBC’s newest geeks-as-heroes show. After watching the series premiere, I rewound my DVR and watched the first 30 minutes again. The find of the TV season is Joshua Gomez, who plays the comic relief Morgan, who works with Chuck in the Best Buy knockoff store doing God-knows-what with his day. In the premiere, he brushed off two customers and spent the day popping in and out of frame (the bit with him playing the inspirational music while Chuck walked in slow motion was good for a big laugh).

Zachary Levi is also a good choice for Chuck. He’s got the kind of eyes that make his expressions so priceless. Does he remind you of anyone else on an NBC show?

But the second episode was a little bit flat for the first half. I’m glad, though, that they got the plot concerning the motives behind the gorgeous CIA agent and the trigger-happy NSA agent who are sent to protect Chuck from the enemies whose terrorist secrets Chuck has in his brain. This week, they found out one of their own was a spy who was initially sent to get the memories out of Chuck (did anyone get the Oceanic Flight 815 reference? Yea, cross-referencing!).

I’ll keep watching, because the action and comedy are mixed well together. It looks as if one major secret will be revealed each week, and since there are millions of them, this show looks like it’ll last for 100,000 seasons! Or maybe four at the outside.

“Chuck” is a great TV partner for “Heroes.” Probably the best pairing of any two shows in history, and that goes for anything put together on NBC on Thursday nights.

The “Heroes” second season’s second episode finally found its sea legs, and maybe there was some symbolism to Claire cutting off her pinky to prove that she could regenerate. This show will live on even though viewers might cut themselves off from the show.

In any case, I almost leaked a few tears when HRG (I will still call him that even though we know his name is Noah) and the Haitian reunited. When I first saw the Haitian, I had a feeling he might come back to his former boss, but I’m not sure what his official duties will be, since the Bennets are trying to stay hidden. Wouldn’t a large black man in this lily-white suburb stand out? Maybe he’ll get a job at the copy store.

As for Hiro and the real Kensei, were you as shocked as I was that the “crazy white man” healed himself after being shot with arrows? Me, too. I thought David Anders was being written off the show, giving Hiro the opportunity to become the Kensei legend he read about as a child. I’m still waiting for this subplot that will allow him to communicate with Ando in the present, but so far, I think Hiro’s time in feudal Japan is working well. He’s fallen in love again, and it was good to see that he’s almost forgotten about Charlie, the girl in Texas who died of an aneurysm.

And then we finally got to see Maya’s deadly power. If I saw someone with smudged mascara staring at me, I’d probably die of shock, too. I’m not really understanding the connection between her and Alejandro, except that maybe he heals while she kills. Those wacky twins.

Lots of good threads to tie together this season, though I think there might be too many to work with. By my count, there are six separate storylines, many of which are connected, but nothing is really guiding itself toward one event (like the bomb going off or saving the cheerleader in order to save the world). Could the writers be throwing all their fuel into the fire in case this is the last season? I hope not.

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  1. “Chuck” is a low-brow take-off of the SciFi channel show Jake 2.0. The latter was much better, though, like Chuck, it was flawed with some very poor (over-)actors, such as Jake’s “boss”. Chuck is simply beyond realistic scientific credibility – view an e-mail and get all the government’s secrets in your mind! At least Jake went into credible sci-fi issues, such as nanotechnology’s potential.
    ALEX H    10/03/2007 03:09 PM    #
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