The night before I spoke to Mitchell, they had eaten at home and Greenspan had watched the Baltimore Orioles in their first televised spring-training game.
And Wheeler, we learned Wednesday, must swing more carefully in batting practice before televised games in spring training.
On March 7, the network will try to take a leap in audio, televising a spring training game between the Indians and Diamondbacks in which up to six players a team will wear microphones.
Thanks to Candy Crush, brain training and JLS throwing a televised "Wii party" in a Chester showhome, attitudes toward video-gamers have changed dramatically over the past few years.
Therefore, in place of carefully trained boxers brought up slowly through the club system, televised boxing led to a preference for sometimes poorly trained, stylish boxers who had a showy knockout punch but fewer defensive skills.
Jack Black, above, will host the ceremony, televised from Los Angeles; the Black Eyed Peas, Train and Willow Smith are scheduled to perform.
Reality shows about combat and survival strategies have become more prevalent lately; NBC ran a competition called "Stars Earn Stripes" that simulated military training exercises last summer, and Discovery has televised a documentary show called "Dual Survival" since 2010.
In 1995, after a terrorist bombing in Riyadh killed four Americans working in Saudi Arabia to train the National Guard, their killers made televised confessions in which they said they had never met Mr. bin Laden, nor did they work for him.
The first instance of what has since been dubbed Slow TV was a seven-hour train journey between Bergen and Oslo that was televised in 2009.
Lawrence plays rebel heroine Katniss Everdeen, who is trained to fight to the death in televised competitions in a future US society called Panem.
