| Bob Ford: Villanova confident after UConn win
Perhaps that is all that happened yesterday, and the final sorting at the Big East tournament in two weeks will shuffle out the Wildcats in quick fashion. Playing small - depending entirely on defense and jump shots - is a long walk through the valley of death, even if you fear no evil. But it's a lot better to have someone like Connecticut's 7-foot-3 Hasheem Thabeet walking beside you. Still, anything is possible. When Villanova was in the midst of losing nine of 12 games and the rest of the local teams didn't seem to be NCAA tournament-worthy, either, this loomed as perhaps the first season since 1976-77 in which none of the six area Division I schools would make the big bracket. That's reaching a long way back, almost before Rollie Massimino invented the game, and it could still happen.
TV Lookout: Highlights March 2-8
EST on ABC. Other shows to look out for: _ Fun facts about your body: It can withstand six times its weight when running and 12 times its weight when squatting. The human rib cage is built so tough that it can support half a ton while still protecting vital organs. For more cool facts, catch a four-hour miniseries, "Human Body: Pushing the Limits," which explores physical and mental feats of the body under the most challenging circumstances. In the first two hours, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on Discovery Channel, human muscles, ligaments, joints and bones are seen at work as a man survives the fury of a tornado, or is pinned beneath a half-ton boulder. Then the power of sight gets a close look, with a lifeguard capable of spotting someone in trouble among thousands, and a firefighter battling thick black smoke to see his way to safety.
Virugambakkam canal to be desilted
Instead of waiting for central funds to clean up city waterways, the Corporation staff along with PWD officials would take up temporary works like deweeding and desilting at the Virugambakkam Canal from tomorrow (8 August) at a cost of Rs 60 lakh. Mayor M Subramanian, councillors and top officials of Metrowater, PWD, TNEB and State Highways were taken on a guided tour of the canal at Chinmaya Nagar on Sunday during which residents, welfare groups and Exnora Innovators Club poured out their discontent and sufferings arising due to the misuse of the flood drain as sewage dumps. Metrowater officials informed that individual notices were given to 120 households which let out sewage in the Virugambakkam canal with a one-month time to desist from their 'illegal act' of polluting the storm water drain.
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