END OF THE WEEK:
Sorry for the two day late post, but in a week that took me six days to write a post about the latest Super Bowl, this tardiness should be treated as much milder by comparison. Without further ado, here's the newest look back at a week that was:
Death of the Week: Whitney Houston
She was one of the top pop stars of the '80s and '90s, with a singing voice that can only be described as "once in a generation," only to have all of that destroyed with a tragic substance abuse problem to drugs and alcohol. Nonetheless, she will still be greatly missed by many. And now, just because, here is her singing the "Star Spangled Banner" during Super Bowl XXV, one of the greatest renditions of the national anthem ever. Go ahead, watch that clip. I dare you to not feel something while listening.
Celebrity Photo of the Week: Macaulay Culkin's "Gaunt" Photo
Man, he looks like Jim Carroll came back from the dead. Then again, this is how any man would probably look like, too, if they had just broken up with Mila Kunis.
Music Video of the Week: Kanye West and Jay-Z, "Niggas in Paris"
Wow, I actually...liked it?
Stories of the Week:
-The Actual Story of the Week: Rick Santorum Sweeps Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado
And just like that, we have yet another frontrunner in the race to challenge Mitt Romney. And once again we are supposed to believe that this is the real deal, and this newest "flavor of the month" won't die down in popularity like the last 11 or so previous non-Romney "frontrunners." Call me when something new happens in this race.
- The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Man Adopts Girlfriend Following Lawsuit
I'm sure that the shouting during sex just got a lot more accurate.
Milestone of the Week: "Phantom of the Opera" Has 10,000th Performance on Broadway
You'd figure people would have seen enough mask revealings by now. I guess I was wrong.
Collapse of the Week: The Romanian Government
[insert Dracula-related joke here]
Video of the Week: "Will Ferrell's Old Milwuakee Super Bowl Spot"
The video quality may be poor, but this commercial is not. And this only aired in Nebraska? Lucky Cornhuskers! Meanwhile, my local ad was for just some air conditioning repair company.
Person of the Week: New York Kicks Point Guard Jeremy Lin
Before this week, this 2010 Harvard grad and second year player was struggling to make it in the NBA. His first team, the Golden State Warriors, cut him after one season that saw him spend the majority of time in the D-League, only to be signed by the Houston Rockets just so that he could be cut again. Then, he was picked up as a free agent by the Knicks in December as a replacement for the injured Chauncey Billups under the promise that they would get rid of him quickly if he didn't preform to the expectations. But then, Lin was given a chance by coach Mike D'Antoni with extra playing time and starting spot last Saturday against the New, and since then the newest NBA sensation that is "Lin-sanity" was born.
Over the course of the next five games, Lin would end up scoring at least 20 points in each game to the point where he passed Allen Iverson's record for most points in an NBA player's first five starts. On Friday, he even scored 38 points over Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, and on Saturday, he helped his team win a close game over the Timberwolves with a few clutch free throws at the end of the game. His jersey has now become the top selling in the NBA. Furthermore, his Knicks have won each of those five games, officially getting themselves back into the NBA playoff picture, with players like Jared Jeffries and Scott Novak improving in play considerably thanks to the many open shots that Lin helped give with his presence. Not bad from someone who had to sleep on his brother's couch not too long ago.
In a way, Lin become the newest sensation was a perfect storm of starting at the right time and, more importantly, in the right market. Early February after the Super Bowl is a relatively slow time for sports news in sports. There's no football, baseball doesn't start spring training for another few weeks, there are no major golf or tennis tournaments for another two months at least, and the Winter Olympics happen only once every four years. That means the only thing that there is to talk about in sports on a daily basis is basketball, hockey, and NFL free agency rumors that won't come to fruition until March. So for Lin to begin his hot streak at this period in the sports season (and in a market like New York where everything that happens there is, by the logic of East Coast elitism, more important than if it were to happen anywhere else) is like Tim Tebow getting all of those comeback victories at the height of interest in the NFL. No wonder that certain media sites are trying to bank on the popularity of Jesusback by making him into the NBA's version of Tebow.
And that's the way it was! Hope you enjoy those seven days of the 2012 calendar, and I hope that this week turns into a better one.
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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