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*(via Yahoo Sports) – Jeremy Lin is leaving New York and taking Linsanity to Houston. The New York Knicks announced Tuesday night that they will not match the Houston Rockets’ three-year, $25 million offer for Lin, a restricted free-agent. New York officially had until 11:59 EDT to decide whether to re-sign Lin, who became an [...]
*Miami Heat star LeBron James continued his winning streak at Wednesday night’s ESPY Awards, scooping three trophies including male athlete of the year for helping his team win the NBA championship. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] James wasn’t able to attend the 20th annual show honoring the year’s best athletes and moments in sports. He [...]
*As Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin have risen to prominence in the NFL and NBA, the touchstones of professional sports and religion have converged perhaps as never before, says the Associated Press. Tebow, the New York Jets quarterback known for doing missionary work in the offseason, and Lin, the point guard who came out of [...]
*Super star New York Knicks player, Jeremy Lin is not all jock. He was involved in a Bible study group run by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, according to a 2010 interview with the online publication StudentSoul.org. Jeremy Lin, while enrolled at Harvard University and playing for its basketball team, was co-leader of a Bible study group. “I [...]
*In its upcoming session the Supreme Court will decide whether race will be a factor I college admissions. Their ruling will be a major factor in determining the degree to which we live in a post racial society. The last time the Supreme Court took on this issue, the justices discovered that in a system [...]
ESPN commentators Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless touched on the topic of ethnicity issues with Jeremy Lin’s arrival in the league as an Asian point guard. But before even touching on Lin, Smith touched on some issues within the black community which he passionately discussed on the First Take platform. Check out the video [...]
*Before he could get a full season under his belt heading the NY Knicks at point guard, a book is getting ready to have the answers to all your questions regarding the Jeremy Lin phenomena. Hachette Book Group will be publishing “Jeremy Lin: The Reason for the Linsanity,” by Timothy Dalrymple, due this May. The [...]
*It’s incredibly hard to believe that only a few weeks ago, no one in the world (save for the hardest of the hard-core basketball fans) knew the name of Jeremy Lin. Now, he’s more ubiquitous on Sportscenter than annoying catchphrases. He’s on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Time’s Asian edition. It appears that every [...]
*After the fire started raging, Anthony Federico, the ESPN editor who was fired after making a racial slur about Jeremy Lin, decided what he said was a mistake. The writer told the New York Daily News that he didn’t know the implications of the word “chink.” “’This had nothing to do with me being cute [...]
*Since the New York Knicks had the good sense to pull a “secret weapon” off the bench a couple weeks ago, the media has been in a frenzy to find out more about the new basketball wonder. Where has he been hiding all this time anyway? Or is the choice of who plays a political [...]
*An ESPN writer got a little out of hand and too comfortable with his job and posted a headline with an ethnic slur. The writer wrote the headline “Chink in the Armor” referencing the New York Knicks’ loss Friday night against the New Orleans Hornets. The verbiage was only up for a little over a [...]
*The story of Jeremy Lin is the reason why we watch sports. Anything can happen at any given moment. Last week I sat in my living room in amazement during the New York Knicks game against the New Jersey Nets in which Lin played All Star point guard Deron Williams to a virtual standstill en [...]
*We don’t even have to say that Floyd Mayweather ain’t no punk. When he has something on his mind, he says it. Recently, in his usual outspoken manner, the boxer tweeted that sensational playing New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin is noteworthy. But, he ain’t special. “Jeremy Lin is a good player,” Mayweather tweeted [...]
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