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After trying, and failing, to compete with ESPN on a national level, cable's Fox Sports Net is taking the more sensible tack of playing to its strength: regional sports. As part of that retooling, Fox Sports Midwest launches a new nightly newscast, the aptly named "Regional Sports Report," at 11 p.m. Central time tonight.

Though the newscast will originate in Pittsburgh, Fox Sports promises the reports we see will be filed from bureaus in St. Louis and Kansas City. Former MSNBC sports anchor Rob Nikoleski is host; Jim Hayes is the show's Kansas City-based reporter.

Eye spy: Here comes "Big Brother"

Beginning at 9 p.m. Wednesday, CBS will introduce America to 10 people who have voluntarily holed themselves up in a high-tech house. For the next three months cameras will record their every movement, and microphones will ensure nothing they say goes unheard.

As the 10 strangers get to know each other, there will be tensions and intrigues. And every night except Sunday, CBS executives are betting viewers will tune in to see what happens next.

Read my story from Wednesday's Kansas City Star

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    in 1985, on "People Do the Craziest Things," customers hear sound effects from inside books in a bookstore, people struggle for an answer when asked Ronald Reagan's middle name, "Good Samaritans" go to great lengths to retrieve a set of keys from freshly poured cement and backstage host Bert Convy wonders why he's this desperate for work. "People Do the Craziest Things," a "Candid Camera" clone, is the lowest-rated show on network television that season. -- Tom Heald

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