1. Thanksgiving means turkey. What do you like better? Dark meat or white meat? Do you have a family favorite side dish?
2. America’s favorite Thanksgiving pie is pumpkin. A recent survey says 36% of people say pumpkin is tops followed by apple pie at 14%, sweet potato pie at 10%, chocolate pie at 9%, lemon meringue pie at 4%, and both cherry and blueberry pie at 3%. What kind of pie do you like?
3. Two former Indian fan favorites, Jim Thome and Omar Vizquel, will both appear on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time in 2018. Thome hit 612 home runs in his career, 8th all-time, and his overall stats can be mentioned with great names of the past like Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Mel Ott and Ted Williams. Vizquel won 11 gold gloves at shortstop and had 2,877 career hits. Do they both deserve to be in Cooperstown? Will they both be voted in on the first try?
4. The 8th ranked Ohio State Buckeyes play the Michigan Wolverines Saturday at noon. OSU head coach Urban Meyer said, “This rivalry is not a one week deal. I learned that from Woody Hayes, from Earl Bruce, from Jim Tressel. I just think it’s in your blood. It’s in your DNA”. Is Ohio State-Michigan still an arch rivalry?
5. Steve Loomis is out as the President of the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association. The police union voted in former President, Det. Jeff Follmer to take over the reins. Are you surprised by the vote? How important of a job is it being the police union president?
6. President Donald Trump said that he's "stocked the courts to their liking, cut funding for abortions and made it safe again to invoke God in the public space. We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values. Guess what, we're saying Merry Christmas again." Do you say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
7. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political solution to Syria’s conflict. Russia is working to build an international consensus around a peace deal for Syria. Putin will also meet the leaders of Iran and Turkey and said he would follow up his talks with Assad with phone calls to President Donald Trump and to Middle Eastern leaders. Attempts to broker a peace deal in the past have foundered because powers involved in the conflict have differing approaches. Can a peace treaty be brokered in Syria?
8. Former President Bill Clinton is reportedly facing a new round of charges of sexual assault from four women, who claim the incidents occurred after Clinton left the White House in 2001. Author and journalist Ed Klein reports in the Daily Mail that attorneys have notified Clinton that they are preparing to file four separate lawsuits against him. Reports say that the women were employed in “low-level positions” at an organization owned by playboy billionaire Ron Burkle. If there is smoke, is there fire?
9. In what is being hailed as one of the great finds in recent years, scientists in Egypt have discovered a hidden chamber inside Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza. The discovery was made using cosmic-ray based imaging, which shows how modern particle physics can reveal new information about ancient structures. The Great Pyramid was built during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu who reigned from 2509 to 2483 B.C. Archaeologists are still unsure how the Great Pyramid, which is 14 stories tall, was built. How could the pyramids have been built 4,500 years ago when human construction technology did not exist? Did an advance race of aliens build it?
10. The NFL is investigating an allegation that Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston groped a female Uber driver, Lisa Friel, last year. The NFL released a statement sent to Friel which reads, "The League has been informed that you may have been the victim of such a violation perpetrated by Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Jameis Winston. The league takes allegations of this nature very seriously and has opened an investigation into this matter." Will we see an end to the Weinstein effect anytime soon or is this just the tip of the iceberg?