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SURFING THE TUBE.


Byline: TOM HOFFARTH

TODAY

A Martin Luther King Day/NBA trivia question: Which NBA NBA
abbr.
1. National Basketball Association

2. National Boxing Association

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 player was a first-round draft pick out of Chicago's Martin Luther King High School Martin Luther King High School can refer to many different schools.
  • Martin Luther King High School — Davis, California
  • Martin Luther King High School — Riverside, California
  • Martin Luther King High School — Lithonia, Georgia
 in 1999? Give up? Remember Leon Smith, who really wasn't ready for that jump from prep school to the big leagues? For every Kobe, there are more Leons than you'd care to remember. NBA: Clippers at Lakers, Fox Sports Net, TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene.
TNT
 in full trinitrotoluene

Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene.
, 7 p.m.; Portland at Memphis, TNT, 2 p.m.; Boston at Philadelphia, TNT, 4:30 p.m.; NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there : Minnesota at Ducks, Fox Sports Net 2, 1 p.m.; Dallas at Colorado, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2, 5 p.m.; College basketball: UConn at Miami, ESPN, 4 p.m.; Texas Tech at Oklahoma, ESPN, 6 p.m.; Utah at UNLV UNLV University of Nevada, Las Vegas , ESPN, 9 p.m.; Tennis: Australian Open, ESPN, 9:30 a.m. and men's quarterfinals, ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

Whatever it takes to avoid the two-hour season premiere of ``American Idol'' - even an Arena Football League highlight reel on ESPN Classic. College basketball: Ohio State at Indiana, ESPN, 4 p.m.; Alabama at Mississippi, ESPN, 6 p.m.; Tennis: Australian Open, men's and women's quarterfinals, ESPN, 11 a.m. and ESPN2, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

Cal State Northridge finally gets a little TV exposure, and it's like another bad reality show. College basketball: Long Beach State at Cal State Northridge, Channel 56, 7 p.m.; Maryland at North Carolina, ESPN, 4 p.m.; NHL: Kings at Ducks, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m.; NBA: Golden State at Lakers, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.; Washington at New Orleans, ESPN, 6 p.m.; Tennis: Australian Open, men's quarterfinals, ESPN, 11 a.m., women's semifinals, ESPN2, 6:30 p.m., men's semifinal No. 1, ESPN2, 12:30 a.m.

THURSDAY

At least the Bruins won't suffer their worst-ever loss at Pauley Pavilion again in this one. College basketball: UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 at Stanford, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.; NBA: Dallas at Philadelphia, TNT, 4:30 p.m.; New Jersey at Golden State, TNT, 7 p.m.; NHL: Minnesota at Kings, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m.; Tennis: Australian Open women's doubles final, ESPN2, 8 p.m., men's semifinal No. 2, ESPN2, 12:30 a.m.; Golf: PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used.

(2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA.
 Phoenix Open first round, USA Network, noon.

FRIDAY

After Venus Williams' third-round win Saturday, she submitted to an interview on local TV by Elmo of ``Sesame Street.'' If she makes it to today's Aussie Open final against sister Serena, maybe they can sing the alphabet song together. Tennis: Australian Open women's final, ESPN, 6:30 p.m.; NBA: New Jersey at Lakers, ESPN2, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.; Washington at Chicago, ESPN2, 5 p.m.; NHL: New Jersey at Ducks, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m.; Golf: PGA Phoenix Open second round, USA Network, noon.

SATURDAY

Unless it's Roddick vs. Agassi in the men's finale, it's going to be tough to justify straying away from the Kings' contest. Tennis: Australian Open men's final, ESPN, 7 p.m.; NHL: New Jersey at Kings, Fox Sports Net, 7:30 p.m.; Golf: PGA Phoenix Open third round, Channel 2, noon; PGA Champions Skins Game (Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and Hale Irwin), first nine holes, Channel 7, noon; College basketball: Pepperdine at Loyola Marymount, Fox Sports Net 2, 7:30 p.m.; College basketball: UCLA at Cal, Fox Sports Net, 1 p.m.; USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code.  at Stanford, Fox Sports Net, 3 p.m.; Georgia Tech at Duke, ESPN, 9 a.m.; Arizona at Kansas, Channel 2, 10 a.m.; Notre Dame at Boston College, ESPN, 11 a.m.; Kentucky at Alabama, ESPN, 5 p.m.; Boxing: Vernon Forrest vs. Richard Mayorga, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber.

Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy
, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY

On ABC's pregame extravaganza, magicians Penn & Teller will perform what the network is calling a ``once in a lifetime stunt'' - they will write down and hermetically seal their predictions on who will win the Super Bowl, the score and the game MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. , along with one ``off the wall'' prediction. They show up on the postgame show to reveal their results. Considering how some games end up in a blowout and lose the audience by halftime, this could be a way to guarantee that ratings will stay up through the end of the game. Now, if they could just make Chris Berman disappear. Super Bowl XXXVII Super Bowl XXXVII was the 37th championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The game was played on January 26, 2003 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California following the 2002 regular season.  in San Diego, Channel 7, 3:18 p.m.; Golf: PGA Phoenix Open final round, Channel 2, noon; PGA Champions Skins Game, last nine holes, Channel 7, 9 a.m.; College basketball: Michigan State at Michigan, Channel 2, 10 a.m.; North Carolina at North Carolina State, Fox Sports Net, 11 a.m.; NBA: Clippers at Indiana, Channel 5, 10 a.m.; Portland at Dallas, ESPN, 11 a.m.

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Photo:

Keep your shirt on, Andre Agassi has a decent chance of making the final of the Australian Open, no matter how hot the competition gets Down Under.

Steve Holland/Associated Press

Box:

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