CHEERLEADERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY GIVE YOU THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT THEY LOVE MOST ABOUT CHEERING ON THE SIDELINES. "Halftime is my favorite-I love dancing, showing off all of our great stunts and hearing the cheers from my family and friends when the...

Kustanowitz, Esther D. The Jewish Week 06-24-2005 When I was in college, Chabad made a huge push for Jewish women to light Shabbat candles every Friday night. If, for one solitary Sabbath, every Jewish woman in the world lit a pair of candles,...

Last fall, NBC made a big miscalculation with "Friday Night Lights," airing it on a night that wasn't Friday.This confused many viewers. After all, "Saturday Night Live" airs on Saturdays _ not on, say, Thursdays.The season wore on, and "Friday Night Lights," a critical hit,...

Freshmen series "Heroes" and "Ugly Betty" are on the Emmy-nominations short list, according to a Web site that tracks entertainment awards.Judges screening potential Emmy Award nominees for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last weekend in Beverly Hills made their picks from a list...

In the film "Friday Night Lights," Ivory Christian is the football player at Odessa-Permian who was the ideal role model because of his character and actions on and off the field.

Both H.G. Bissinger's book Friday Night Lights and the movie version tell the story of the small blue-collar town of Odessa, Texas, whose high school football team is the life of the town. The story tells of the team's Cinderella run towards the state championship. Some major differences exist between the book and the movie, although the book is considered a classic and the movie is a successful adaptation of the book.

Racism, pride and unrealistic expectations played a huge role in H.G. Bissinger's nonfiction "Friday Night Lights," a story about the importance of high school in Odessa, Texas.