For college basketball fans (and, particularly, BYU fans), it’s the Game Of The Year — nay, The Game Of The Century — and the PB&J Report boys are here to break down the impending BYU-San Diego State slugfest from every possible angle. Listen as the crew analyzes both teams’ strengths and weaknesses and makes their [...]

You never thought you’d see it, but food television has officially become popular. Thank you, Julia Child.

These days there are channels like Food Network and Cooking Channel that are dedicated entirely to the wonderful subject of food, which is a dream come true for some of us. You don’t have to be a “foodie” to enjoy great food television. Here’s a list of some of my favorite shows.

Parks and Recreation is returning to NBC tonight. This is great news.

I don’t know why it was ever missing from the Thursday night line-up. And I really don’t understand why Outsourced deserved air time while Parks and Rec was shoved into the abyss of short-lived shows.

Britney Spears shattered download records this week as the Max Martin/Dr. Luke creation, “Hold It Against Me” debuts atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the singer’s fourth No. 1 single. “Hold It Against Me” has sold 411,000 digital downloads, marking not only Spears’ best one week sales, but the best for a female artist. The previous record was held by Taylor Swift who shifted 325,000 downloads of “Today Was A Fairytale” last February.

Spears also had radio on her side. “Hold It Against Me” was the 23rd most played song in the country – extremely impressive for a week old song. With stats like that, a No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 was inevitable. It used to be rare for songs to make their first chart appearance at No. 1 – only 19 have done it in the 51-year history of the charts, but expect them to become a lot more common. Spears already did it in 2009 with “3″. That makes Spears the third artist to have multiple songs debut at the top spot (Mariah Carey and Celine Dion accomplished the feat in 1995 and 1998 respectively), and don’t be surprised if it’s not her last. In the age of iTunes, huge one week sales and high debuts are more common then ever.

Quick, name the most recent winner of American Idol.

Drawing blanks? You’re not alone.

Lee DeWyze is the answer, but it’s not as if the season nine winner made much of a splash. His debut album made the weakest debut on the Billboard 200 album chart of any Idol winner — No. 19 — and quickly tumbled to the bottom rungs of the chart. At the same time that Idol winners’ album sales take a nosedive, the show’s ratings have hit their lowest point since 2004. To make matters worse, the flagship judge, Simon Cowell, is not returning for the show’s tenth season.

BYU has an image problem, but it doesn’t seem to know it. Or maybe it just doesn’t care.

On the university’s home page recently — as well as in the alumni email I got earlier this month — I read about a new study by professors Jason Carroll and Brian Willoughby that argues that waiting until marriage to have sex benefits couples later on. The study was published in the Journal of Family Psychology.

The study was probably legit. It was published in a reputable journal, and my experience as a student at BYU (for more years than I care to admit) was that professors genuinely try to do serious scholarly work.

But whatever the study actually included, the uber-popular news website Gawker discovered it and expressed suspicion over how the scientific research “hews so closely to the Mormon church’s position on sex before marriage.”

“Yo, I got this”

Historically the first two weekends of the NFL playoffs are two of my favorite weekends of the year (topped by wild card Saturday — is there a reason this isn’t a national holiday yet?). This year didn’t break that trend as last weekend saw the Jets, Seahawks, Packers and Ravens all win, arguably all upsets except maybe the Ravens. Part of what makes the NFL so exciting is the parity, and at no time is this more apparent than during the playoffs.

In a season that has been all about parity (even the Patriots, the league’s undisputed best team, got beat by the lowly Browns) most experts came into this week’s games with no clue as to what was going to happen. The Ravens and Steelers were meeting for the third time this season and the wild card Packers seemed to be suddenly gaining popularity against the number one-seeded Falcons. At the beginning of the day, NFL fans had lots of questions — and by the end of the day, we had answers. Here’s the top things we learned from today’s games.