It's big game season on TV right now, with the baseball playoffs going the distance (and the Red Sox facing a challenge in Tampa Bay), but also college football and the NFL.

But there's another sport grabbing a lot of attention this time of year - Debates.
Presidential debates, vice presidential debates, local debates, etc., etc.

In the U.S. Senate race, U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, have been spending a lot of time behind podiums for months now, and tomorrow they'll be at it again in an hour-long debate starting at noon on the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus.

I'll be taking part in tomorrow's debate on a panel of journalists asking questions of Allen and Collins, but the debate will also feature a large share of questions from the public.

You can start by submitting questions via E-mail, which will be considered for the discussion. The questions will be taken today all the way through the debate.

If you've got an extended lunch break or some free time tomorrow, you can come to the debate and submit your questions in person at the Hannaford Lecture Hall in the Abromson Community Education Center.

We'll be doing this all over again in two weeks on Oct. 28 for the 1st Congressional District debate between Democrat Chellie Pingree and Republican Charlie Summers.

And don't forget you can catch tomorrow's debate live online at PressHerald.com and WMTW.com.

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