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Many of us struggle with a little bit of extra weight. OK, maybe a lot of extra weight. Because we don't have the lofty courtesy of airbrushing at our disposal, if we want to drop those pounds, we have to take care of it on our own.

Phillyist's quick-picks for your evening agenda.

   

*Yes, it's Wednesday. But we needed some extra time to prepare our new Foodsday Tuesday feature, Quick Nosh, which will feature snack-sized servings of food news that we couldn't dedicate a full post to. Check out the first one at the bottom of this post. Got a Philly food tip? Send 'em over!

MyFoxPhilly.com is reporting that a Saint Joseph's University student is in stable condition at a Lankenau Hospital ICU, infected with meningitis. People identified as possibly at-risk because they have been in contact with the patient recently have been treated. This is on the heels of a story we mentioned in February regarding two University of Pennsylvania students who came down with the disease, and two occurrences so close together is worrying. This Phillyist is a graduate of Saint Joe's, and wishes the sick student all the best in his recovery.

Despite the flurry of playoff wins and losses and analysis pouring in this week, I have managed to keep a steady eye on one Inquirer feature: a Sunday poll that gauged what the "biggest event for Philadelphia fans" was this upcoming weekend. I gave the poll a few days to mature and, as of today at three p.m., these were the results:

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Drexel (2-3, 0-1): Drexel hasn't really given us much to get excited about over the last couple weeks. After getting past Cal State-Northridge in the battle of mediocrity, the Dragons pushed George Mason to the brink, but ended up falling to the Patriots by a point. Maybe because of a hangover from the George Mason game, Drexel was pretty lackluster in a loss to Fairfield. Can the team pull it back together? They've got a tough test on Thursday, hosting a 6-2 Niagra team (tickets) before going on the road to play Bucknell. And when they're done with that, they've got to travel to #17 Memphis. Realistically, the Dragons will probably be 2-6 or 3-5 after this stretch, so we'll be paying more attention to how they look in these games, particularly the Niagra game.

Drexel (1-1, 0-0): The Dragons got off to as good of a start, realistically, as we could hope for. They pulled out a close victory against Penn, but it wasn't for lack of trying to cough it up at the end. Fortunately for Drexel, Penn's Zack Rosen missed a key free throw in the closing moments of the game that could have possibly sent the game to overtime. In their next game, however, Drexel couldn't get anything going offensively, and ended up on the wrong end of a blowout against Georgetown. Upcoming games: Home vs. Cal State Northridge, Mon., 12/1/08, 7:00 p.m. (tickets).

• Former CBS3 news anchor Larry Mendte was sentenced yesterday to six months of house confinement, along with three years of probation and a $5,000 fine for obsessively and illegally reading the e-mails of his former co-anchor, Alycia Lane. Lane also attended the sentencing.
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With college hoops season tipping off, we're going to pick up where we left off last year with the Home Game: College Hoops Edition series of posts, with some modifications. We're going to stick to the Big 5 schools plus Drexel this year, and we're going to keep it to men's basketball—not because we have anything against women's hoops, but because our brains can only handle so much at any one time. So with the season getting underway, what's the outlook for Philadelphia's teams? Here's what we think.

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We told you to hurry, but because many of you may not have been able to make it to Penn on time, here's XPN's video coverage of The Kooks busking at the university.

If you're picking up a copy of Inquirer columnist Faye Flam's first book, The Score (subtitled "How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man") looking for a titillating chronicle of men's sex lives, look elsewhere. Likewise, if you're looking for groundbreaking scientific research explaining why, for instance, guys like porn, you've picked up the wrong book. Flam is a journalist, pure and simple, so she's neither trying to arouse nor to astound. What she is doing—what she does quite well—is reporting, educating, and informing.

busk (v) – [To] perform (esp. music) for voluntary donations, usually in the street or in subways