Asian sensation b-ball player Jeremy Lin, who just signed with the Golden State Warriors, has officially released Lin Jerseys! The jerseys come in white with blue and blue with yellow and cost around $55 buckaroos. You can purchase them on team’s online store and rock it at all his games!
Check out Jeremy Lin in the 2010 Rookie Photo Shoot. The Harvard graduate and Bay Area native is looking mighty good in his Golden State Warriors uniform. I admit that I’m not a huge basketball fan, but I can’t get enough coverage of this guy so I might pay closer attention to the sport from now on. Lin is wearing lucky #7, but only time can tell what the future will hold for this guy.
Anyone going to pre-order the official Jeremy Lin jersey?
Credit: NBA
The past is never truly past, especially in the case for China and their women’s gymnastics team from the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. They were ordered to give back their bronze medal a few months ago after the Olympic committee found out they used an underaged girl, Dong Fangxiao, who significantly contributed to China winning the team bronze. The “Asian women look younger” argument didn’t pan out this time around. She was only 14 at the time–gymnasts must turn 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible. This, of course, was bad news for China, but good news for the U.S. After finishing fourth at Sydney, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team–Amy Chow, Jamie Dantzscher, Dominique Dawes, Kristin Maloney, Elise Ray and Tasha Schwikert– received their bronze medals ten years later. Congratulations to all, better late than never.
Source: Yahoo!Sports
There are several things about America’s favorite pastime that always gets me major leaguely miffed: players over-usage of steroids, ballparks over-charging on food, and the Yankees over-domination of the entire diamond-shaped, artificially turfed universe. However, supposed preferential treatment of one minority group of players over another has never crossed my mind. Until now.
Ozzie Guillen, a former celebrated MLB shortstop and currently the manager of the Chicago White Sox, stirred the waves of controversy with his recent rant about the unfairly poor treatment that Latin American ballplayers receive compared to their Asian counterparts. The White Sox has publicly separated its organization from Guillen’s comments, and many others have denounced the manager for his inappropriately convoluted, crazy racist remarks.
I’m not adequately abreast of anything in this delicate subject matter, but Howard Bryant of ESPN.com summed it all up beautifully in his commentary . Bryant doesn’t jump on the denouncement bandwagon; instead, he puts Guillen’s legitimate frustrations into synchronized context with the current complicatedly grey-tinted American racial landscape.
Guillen’s greatest crime was to approach two subjects, race and class, at a simmering time in the country’s history, with implications far beyond the baseball diamond. As the nation moves inevitably closer toward a nonwhite majority, the racial conversation in this country is moving away from its traditional white/black dynamic. The result is a cultural war being fought along immigration lines and language lines that have threatened the way Americans generally view themselves.
Not only that, Bryant explains that indeed Asian players (mostly Japanese heavyweights) are viewed as “huge financial investments” because they have already established their talent and lucrative worth in their highly industrialized and economically sound homelands. Whereas, most Latin American players are viewed as “low-risk, high-reward investments” because they are deemed to basically have no choice but to play in the MLB because of their bleak other alternatives in their 3rd world native lands, more or less.
A lot of heavy stuff here to analyze and mull over, but I will just say for now that I don’t necessarily blame Guillen for his honest and valid opinion. But it is slightly absurd for him to just group this exclusively selective group of Japanese imported superstars for an entire race, especially one that is still severely underrepresented in all American professional sports, not just baseball.
What!? Are you serious right now with that jump?
Hiroshima Carp outfielder goes all Spider Man on everyone’s asses when he catches Yokohama Bay Stars Shuichi Murata’s almost home-run ball during a game versing the two teams. The catch is absolutely insane.
I love the smile he sports after his little stint there. He’s kinda hot, no ladies?
I know we’re trying to break stereotypes but no one can kick like an Asian dude and that is why this high-kick went all kinds of wrong for you mister.
How it’s really supposed to be done:
Case closed.
Asian men can jump! According to The Los Angeles Times, the Golden State Warriors will soon offer a guaranteed contract to Harvard player and San Francisco Bay native Jeremy Lin. This signing would bring about two landmarks; signing an Asian-American to a guaranteed contract, and signing a player from Harvard to a contract with the NBA. Apparently the Warriors are not the only team eyeing Lin, so he may be sitting pretty in the roots of his NBA career. He’s pretty easy on the eyes as well…
Source: Bleacher Report
Get ready for the red carpet this year, as the award show season begins to kick up! The 2010 Teen Choice Awards are gearing up for their show on August 9th and teens across the USA are voting, voting, voting! We’ve got some pretty notable and talented Asian Americans nominated for various categories so let’s see who made the lists!
Aziz Ansari nominated for Choice Comedian
Ken Jeong in the show, Community nominated for Breakout Star Male
Ne-yo’s track, Beautiful Monster nominated for R&B Track
Apolo Anton Ohno nominated for Male Athlete
We all remember when, just a few months ago, Apolo Anton Ohno graced the Olympic podium to become the United States’ Most Decorated Winter Olympian. Two nights ago, Ohno walked the red carpet, decked out in Armani, of the 2010 ESPY Award Show’s red carpet along with a number of other incredible athletes.
Ohno, nominated for Best Male US Olympic Athlete, shared the company of other amazing US Male Olympians in the nominee group such as Shani Davis (speedskating), Shaun White (snowboarding), Evan Lysancek (figure skating) and Bode Miller (skiing). White took home the honor and award of Best Male US Olympic Athlete.
Ohno tweeted right before the event, “ESPY’s tonight! There will be huge amounts of energy in that room, with superstars from all over….an honor!”
Besides collecting absolutely vomit-inducingly funky-smelling lint, I had no idea that belly buttons had actual significant life-shaping purposes!
A study recently published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics suggests that the placement of the navel-regardless if its an “innie” or an “outie”- in relation to the rest of the human body is the necessary golden key to a potential Olympic gold medal. A person’s belly button is the physical landmark of his/her center of gravity, and people of the same race possess similar positioning of this bodily orifice-wannabe. This explains why people of West-African descent are better sprinters (higher belly buttons; longer legs) and whites are better swimmers (lower belly buttons; longer torsos).
Asians apparently have similar belly button locations as whites, which “gives them the same potentials to be record-breakers in the pool,” but “often lose out to whites because whites are taller.”
Sigh.
cr: gawker.com, AFP
