BRISTOL, Conn. — “60 Minutes” and ESPN Classic are teaming up for a weekly series with old sports-related segments from the TV show.

“60 Minutes on Classic” debuts in late October with a show focusing on “The Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali's fight against George Foreman in Zaire in October 1974. It will have a 1996 segment from “60 Minutes” featuring Ali and a 1995 segment featuring Foreman, it was announced this week.

Subjects in later episodes include Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, George Steinbrenner, Lance Armstrong and Michael Jordan.

NEW YORK - Traylor Howard is joining the cast of "Monk."She will play a former bartender and single mother who becomes Monk's assistant, the USA Network said this week. Tony Shalhoub stars as Adrian Monk, an obsessive-compulsive private eye.Bitty Schram, who played Monk's personal nurse, recently left the show. USA and Schram's management said the split was amicable, and the network said "Monk" had decided to go in a "different creative direction.""Every successful series changes over the course of its life. We were fortunate to have Bitty Schram in our cast for two and a half seasons, and we are thrilled to have Traylor Howard join our cast now," said Jeff Wachtel, USA's executive vice president, in a statement.Howard has appeared in several TV series, including "Boston Common" and "Braum and Alice."Production of new episodes began this week, the network said."Monk" is in the middle of its third season, with new episodes scheduled to air in January.

NEW YORK - Snoop Dogg will host Spike TV's second annual Video Game Awards on Dec. 14. The hip-hop star and other celebrities will pass out awards to honor games, designers, animators, musicians and performers."Snoop is an icon and the perfect example of how Hollywood and the music industry have embraced the video game genre and catapulted it into pop culture," said the awards' co-executive producer Casey Patterson.Snoop brings video game credits to the ceremony. The "Gin and Juice" artist appeared as himself in "True Crime: Streets of L.A." and "NBA Live 2003." He'll again appear as himself in the electronic brawl-fest "Def Jam: Fight for NY," due in stores Sep. 20.