One show that had a profound impact on me was Designing Women. First airing in 1986, I likely started watching a bit after it began, but by the time I was in high school in 1988, I was a regular watcher. Sisters Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker (played by Dixie Carter and Delta Burke, respectively) had an interior design firm along with their friend and head designer Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts) and office manager Charlene Frazier (Jean Smart).

The Oscar nominations will be announced next week, and we all have our fingers grossed for Lily Gladstone to make history and become the first indigenous American person to receive a Best Actress nod. Gladstone’s work in Killers of the Flower Moon is perhaps my most beloved performance of 2023, and if there was any justice in Hollywood, many of the other Native actors in the movie would be receiving awards attention.

You’ve got to hand it to Brett Veach, he knows how to make it dramatic. After several days of free agency, the Chiefs had been remarkably quiet. There were various rumors about wide receivers (for seemingly the millionth year in a row) and talk of L’Jarius Sneed trade options, but the lack of movement was borderline jarring. Those of us who are concerned about the Chiefs’ receivers after (gestures vaguely at the results of last year’s WR room not named Rashee Rice) were growing… angsty.

For over a decade youth alleged serious abuses and negligence at the for-profit Diamond Ranch Academy (D.R.A.) in Hurricane, Utah. State licensors and many parents were slow to heed those allegations. D.R.A., after all, advertised itself as a “World-Class Therapeutic Program” and “the diamond standard in therapeutic boarding schools.” Then three children died there. D.R.A.’s methods were always unorthodox—par for the course in what the American Bar Association and others call the “Troubled Teen Industry.

UConn head coach Jim Mora has named Joseph Fagnano the starting quarterback for the 2023 season opener against NC State. The exact rest of the depth chart has not been revealed, but Ta’Quan Roberson and Zion Turner are ostensibly the backups. Most years, at UConn but also at many schools, the backup sees some meaningful playing time. It bodes well for the Huskies to have solid depth at the position.