First of all, farewell to my New Orleans Hornets this season.
I've got more reasons to be excited about next season, shouldn't I?
I've got a lot to keep me motivated about my Chris Paul and Hornets.
Am I talking gibberish or not... Or in Chinese, Mars-language...
Back to earth:
When upset is no longer shocking news, the March Madness is showing more madness.
It's a sad story for Kentucky, but it might be a great news for NBA, who is expecting everything from the number-one-draft-to-be kid-John-Wall but his injury before the opening of his rookie season this October/November.
From Sweet Sixteen, to Elite Eight, to Final Four, so many underdogs have come, so many updogs are gone.
Go Duke! Go Michigan St.! Go Butler! Go WV!
So long Kentucky, So long Tennessee. So long Baylor. So long Kansas St.
Two new guys moved me in today's two Elite Eight games: LaceDarius Dunn and the guy who's hot both in game and name: Durrell Summers and his Team Michigan State Spartans!
I love summer! I love Summers even more!!!
I love all the superb names starting with S: Su, Super, Shoot, Spartans and Summer!
If you don't understand my craziness about Summers, you may want to watch today's game featuring Michigan State and Tennessee. If you missed the game replay, hope this and that can help you at least get to know the stellar Summers!
It's Summer time! And it's time to defend for March Madness. To respond NBA snobs, this interesting piece told us that most amaze of NBA originated from NCAA where No.3 Chris Paul (Wake Forest University), No.3 Dwyane Wade (Marquette University), No.3 Brandon Roy (University of Washington), No.4 Chris Webber (University of Michigan), and No.34 Paul Pierce (University of Kansas) were all amazing performers in the March Madness.
Another amazing thing is: their numbers are all about 3 and 4. I love three, I love four more!
Speaking of defense, there are two articles in defense of Google leaving China that I can't wait to share. One is from New York Times and one of my greatest professor at Annenberg, USC, Andrew Lih was interviewed and quoted in the article. The other one is even more thought provoking. It drove me to start realizing that the motive to block all the Western websites is not just out of political censorship, it could be a sugarcoated or pillcoated way to protect the made-in-China websites like Baidu, Tecent. Chinese censorship equals protectionism, meaning Beijing maybe violating its WTO obligations.
Google is not the only word starts with G that has trouble. The golf course, designed by Tiger Woods, is facing trouble as the designer does. Like designer like course. And the Master's game is coming on April 14 where the troublecoated golfer will make his first appearance after the first affair. (let's hope so)
Picked up a new strategy to break ice with the amazing guys I spot on the basketball court:
-"Excuse me, is your name James?"
-"No, it's ..."
-"Oh, I thought you were LeBron James."
-"Haha..."
-"I'm kidding, just want to say that you're...."
-"#$%%^&^"
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
March Madness or Upsetness
When all the mad upsets in the March Madness become normal, March Madness should change its name to Upsetness. Kansas is no longer alone, the Jayhawks can walk off the stage hand in hand with Orange, who's ripped off by Butler Bulldogs.
NBA Where AMAZING Happens, where 2010 playoff seeds are easy to predict happens.
NCAA Where UPSET Happens, where nobody's bracket is still intact happens.
The idea of bracket is smart for promoting the games. In the world gradually dominated by the user-generated contents, an interactive bracket is a non-second-choice for the games to attract more followers. My friend Mofee seldom watches basketball, let alone college basketball. But he is deadly fixed on the games this month because, guess what, he joined his classmates in a bracket bet. Hardly had he get over the fact that Kansas's loss had robbed him when the-make-matter-worse Syracuse sent him penniless.
I'm wondering if there's anyone is still pretty decent. Let's follow the "Magic Sticks" LeBronJames and Obamas' brackets. FYI, magic sticks in Chinese pronounces 神棍, indicating those amazingly accurate predictors.
If I could become an NBA game analyst, commentator, or court-side reporter, I'd like to be the female Chuck Barkley (my first NBA idol when I was in 2nd grade) or Craig Sager for one day, one and only on April 1. Mwa-ha-ha.
LeBron James my imaginary buddy Chris Paul's real buddy, he's never on my Fav 5 list, but he's the first one treated me the way I'm longing for from Chris Paul. LeBron seldom gets my support in terms of team leader, but he gets my hats off the most as a fantastic basketball guy. Born a basketball prodigy, maybe even more talented than the peerless Michael Jordan, there's not a single second when LeBron doesn't show sincere respect to the everyone's idol. His proposal of retiring the No.23 jersey in the whole league is terrific and touching! His statement of putting aside the easy-peasy scoring champion for the sake of the world champion is bold but not boastful. There are braggadocios all over the world proficient at blatant lies, but when LeBron says something, there's just no reason to not believe.
Quote of the day:
"If I really wanted to be the scoring [champion] every single year---every single year---I could really do it. But it doesn't matter." ---LeBron James.
To get to know LeBron, to refresh my previous opinions about him, the movie "More Than A Game" serves more than a great way. I shared my tears of joy at the beginning and the ending. I have to admit, I don't like Boston Celtics' green, but I do love that on Irish.
Where there's angel, there's demon. The same in NBA.
While LeBron is concentrating on the basketball court, another NBA star is forced to focus on superior court. The best part of the worst news for Gilbert Arenas, no need to go to jail. Go to China, a suggestion from me to Agent Zero. I bet he can outshine Stephon Marbury who just got an MVP award in the all-star game! While of course, the CBA all-star game.
But that's still amazing, isn't it? Since China's international stance is skyrocketing faster and higher than the current Houston Rockets.
Even in the shoes industry is China becoming more competitive spearheaded by Li Ning, who opened the Lining USA store in Porland, the US shoes town where ADIDAS, NIKE, COLUMBIA are dwelling. A even great news is that their first product, Baron Davis BD Tees are sold out and the BD Doom shoes brought a long line outside the store already.
How can I not be proud of my country without regard to the douche government's every douche action?
NBA Where AMAZING Happens, where 2010 playoff seeds are easy to predict happens.
NCAA Where UPSET Happens, where nobody's bracket is still intact happens.
The idea of bracket is smart for promoting the games. In the world gradually dominated by the user-generated contents, an interactive bracket is a non-second-choice for the games to attract more followers. My friend Mofee seldom watches basketball, let alone college basketball. But he is deadly fixed on the games this month because, guess what, he joined his classmates in a bracket bet. Hardly had he get over the fact that Kansas's loss had robbed him when the-make-matter-worse Syracuse sent him penniless.
I'm wondering if there's anyone is still pretty decent. Let's follow the "Magic Sticks" LeBronJames and Obamas' brackets. FYI, magic sticks in Chinese pronounces 神棍, indicating those amazingly accurate predictors.
If I could become an NBA game analyst, commentator, or court-side reporter, I'd like to be the female Chuck Barkley (my first NBA idol when I was in 2nd grade) or Craig Sager for one day, one and only on April 1. Mwa-ha-ha.
LeBron James my imaginary buddy Chris Paul's real buddy, he's never on my Fav 5 list, but he's the first one treated me the way I'm longing for from Chris Paul. LeBron seldom gets my support in terms of team leader, but he gets my hats off the most as a fantastic basketball guy. Born a basketball prodigy, maybe even more talented than the peerless Michael Jordan, there's not a single second when LeBron doesn't show sincere respect to the everyone's idol. His proposal of retiring the No.23 jersey in the whole league is terrific and touching! His statement of putting aside the easy-peasy scoring champion for the sake of the world champion is bold but not boastful. There are braggadocios all over the world proficient at blatant lies, but when LeBron says something, there's just no reason to not believe.
Quote of the day:
"If I really wanted to be the scoring [champion] every single year---every single year---I could really do it. But it doesn't matter." ---LeBron James.
To get to know LeBron, to refresh my previous opinions about him, the movie "More Than A Game" serves more than a great way. I shared my tears of joy at the beginning and the ending. I have to admit, I don't like Boston Celtics' green, but I do love that on Irish.
Where there's angel, there's demon. The same in NBA.
While LeBron is concentrating on the basketball court, another NBA star is forced to focus on superior court. The best part of the worst news for Gilbert Arenas, no need to go to jail. Go to China, a suggestion from me to Agent Zero. I bet he can outshine Stephon Marbury who just got an MVP award in the all-star game! While of course, the CBA all-star game.
But that's still amazing, isn't it? Since China's international stance is skyrocketing faster and higher than the current Houston Rockets.
Even in the shoes industry is China becoming more competitive spearheaded by Li Ning, who opened the Lining USA store in Porland, the US shoes town where ADIDAS, NIKE, COLUMBIA are dwelling. A even great news is that their first product, Baron Davis BD Tees are sold out and the BD Doom shoes brought a long line outside the store already.
How can I not be proud of my country without regard to the douche government's every douche action?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The more concealed, the more conspicuous
欲盖弥彰. That's the Chinese translation of the proverb in the title. That's for the Chinese government's actions and reactions toward Google.cn's shutting down.
The more the red power is trying to conceal the three Ts that they consider as taboos: Tibet, Tian'anmen Square and Taiwan, the greater curiosity aroused among its people. There's even an article to testify the fore-mentioned theory.
If all the mainstream news outlets have trending topics like Twitter does, "Google In China" tops the charts unquestionably. Ironically, it's not a trending topic on Twitter, not for a second yet. Check "In The News" section on LATimes.com
Google.cn's gone, but the spirit of an enduring fight for freedom of information searching survives.
Forgive me if I'm talking too much about politics. I am everything but one who gives a hoot about politics.
But I do love the way they are using basketball as a bridge better than political strategies to fill the gap between China and the U.S.
Many Americans would assume that the best ambassador from NBA would be Yao Ming. What's shocking is that to most Chinese fans, Kobe Bryant would be a more ideal candidate.
Yet, the most shocking fact is, believe it or not, Tracy McGrady outpowers Yao and Kobe combined. Evidence? If you missed the heated discussion about the 2010 All-star game Western starters' voting nightmares, especially to Steve Nash/Chris Paul/Deron Williams/..., then you can't miss the latest news that a recent poll on Chinese website Tecent showed that Tracy McGrady's New York Knicks got four times more favoring votes from Chinese fans than the so-called Chinese people's team Houston Rockets before the game between the two.
Speaking of the 2010 NBA All-star, I just stumbled upon an interesting article about the advertising over this year's all-star, thanks to which I got the unbelievable stats: NBA fans are 60 percent male and 40 percent female.With almost half of the NBA lovers women, how come I always felt like I was the only female online, fascinated and crazy about the game.
Another thing that might single me out might be the ones I'm rooting for: Chris Webber and his Sacramento Kings. I loved them the most when the NBA was in a purple and gold era. I hated their fate rival, aka the Lakers, the most when Robert Horry accidentally picked up the rebounded ball and made a even-if-it-was-a-two-point-ball-it-would-not-change-the-result's three point shot. I had always thought that I was an enemy of states since everyone, no matter in the west hemisphere or east, had the blood of purple and gold inside.
It was not until the end of the Laker's OK era that I realized, everybody hated the Lakers, just the way everyone hates Duke. Among all the theories talked about as why everyone hates Duke, I found the BIRGing and CORFing one particularly stimulating. Lesson 2: it's a common term in sports marketing and social psychology: Basking In Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure.
I won't deny that the reason I supported CWEBB at first was in no small part because that made me special. Imagine a world where most people wear the jersey in purple and gold, wouldn't it be cool, unique and eyeballs-attracting to wear a white and purple one that has a crown as a logo instead of a "Lakers"? But that's just the way I picked my favorite team when I had no other options to make a decision.
And the greater plus side is love at first sight lasts long. That's how I became the one and only CWEBB&KINGS female freak in China. Hats off to my loyalty.
Even though I found out that I've got tons of anti-Lakers companions, yet still, there are geeks who are even experts at the celebrities with court-side Lakers' seats, whether Chinese geeks or American geezers.
My pal Ronan, also a sports freak, but a male sports freak, has an amazing video website about American footballs. He has mania for English Premier Football: the Arsenal soccer team, and our school's football team: USC trojans football.
As a student in Communication Management, I'd also like to share something from my reading assignments everyday.
Today's quote would be:
Six principles of successful ideas:
Simplicity + Unexpectedness + Concreteness + Credibility + Emotion + Story = SUCCESS
The more the red power is trying to conceal the three Ts that they consider as taboos: Tibet, Tian'anmen Square and Taiwan, the greater curiosity aroused among its people. There's even an article to testify the fore-mentioned theory.
If all the mainstream news outlets have trending topics like Twitter does, "Google In China" tops the charts unquestionably. Ironically, it's not a trending topic on Twitter, not for a second yet. Check "In The News" section on LATimes.com
Google.cn's gone, but the spirit of an enduring fight for freedom of information searching survives.
Forgive me if I'm talking too much about politics. I am everything but one who gives a hoot about politics.
But I do love the way they are using basketball as a bridge better than political strategies to fill the gap between China and the U.S.
Many Americans would assume that the best ambassador from NBA would be Yao Ming. What's shocking is that to most Chinese fans, Kobe Bryant would be a more ideal candidate.
Yet, the most shocking fact is, believe it or not, Tracy McGrady outpowers Yao and Kobe combined. Evidence? If you missed the heated discussion about the 2010 All-star game Western starters' voting nightmares, especially to Steve Nash/Chris Paul/Deron Williams/..., then you can't miss the latest news that a recent poll on Chinese website Tecent showed that Tracy McGrady's New York Knicks got four times more favoring votes from Chinese fans than the so-called Chinese people's team Houston Rockets before the game between the two.
Speaking of the 2010 NBA All-star, I just stumbled upon an interesting article about the advertising over this year's all-star, thanks to which I got the unbelievable stats: NBA fans are 60 percent male and 40 percent female.With almost half of the NBA lovers women, how come I always felt like I was the only female online, fascinated and crazy about the game.
Another thing that might single me out might be the ones I'm rooting for: Chris Webber and his Sacramento Kings. I loved them the most when the NBA was in a purple and gold era. I hated their fate rival, aka the Lakers, the most when Robert Horry accidentally picked up the rebounded ball and made a even-if-it-was-a-two-point-ball-it-would-not-change-the-result's three point shot. I had always thought that I was an enemy of states since everyone, no matter in the west hemisphere or east, had the blood of purple and gold inside.
It was not until the end of the Laker's OK era that I realized, everybody hated the Lakers, just the way everyone hates Duke. Among all the theories talked about as why everyone hates Duke, I found the BIRGing and CORFing one particularly stimulating. Lesson 2: it's a common term in sports marketing and social psychology: Basking In Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure.
I won't deny that the reason I supported CWEBB at first was in no small part because that made me special. Imagine a world where most people wear the jersey in purple and gold, wouldn't it be cool, unique and eyeballs-attracting to wear a white and purple one that has a crown as a logo instead of a "Lakers"? But that's just the way I picked my favorite team when I had no other options to make a decision.
And the greater plus side is love at first sight lasts long. That's how I became the one and only CWEBB&KINGS female freak in China. Hats off to my loyalty.
Even though I found out that I've got tons of anti-Lakers companions, yet still, there are geeks who are even experts at the celebrities with court-side Lakers' seats, whether Chinese geeks or American geezers.
My pal Ronan, also a sports freak, but a male sports freak, has an amazing video website about American footballs. He has mania for English Premier Football: the Arsenal soccer team, and our school's football team: USC trojans football.
As a student in Communication Management, I'd also like to share something from my reading assignments everyday.
Today's quote would be:
Six principles of successful ideas:
Simplicity + Unexpectedness + Concreteness + Credibility + Emotion + Story = SUCCESS
Monday, March 22, 2010
So long google.cn
Google,
So long http://www.google.cn, and within near future, so long http://www.google.com.hk/, if you trust the power of the Chinese government.
It is a good thing that google.cn quitted mainland China, who above all, had nothing to compete with http://baidu.com, at least not in user numbers. That is also a great lesson for any American companies have had and will have work with China: lesson one, don't toy with the government of the Middle Kingdom unless you want to get swamped into the middle of nowhere.
It is no big deal for Chinese netizens because no matter how great the Great Fire Wall is, there's always a FreeGate to pass through. Too bad the website that provides the download of FreeGate is blocked in the United States, just the way American movies and TV shows on youku.com and tudou.com are blocked in US.
It is wise for google to redirect users to its HK link. Apart from the users, this could also bring terminators. My sincere blessing for the life of google.com.hk, may you live long and prosperous.
The lesson also applies to major cities in the U.S, say Portland, a city just celebrated Tibet-Awareness-Day. Heartbreaking news for the fans of Trailblazers in China, no more games of Portland televised on CCTV5 any more.
I hate the way when sports is affected by politics.
I love the way Google fought as a warrior.
I love the way Google fought as a warrior.
Good news is, there is always a silver lining.
Even though China's central television is trying to televise as many Houston Rockets and New Jersey Nets games as possible to instill the heroic images of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian in Chinese basketball fans' minds, the No.1 popular jersey in China's apparel stores belongs to Kobe Bryant. And in terms of teams? The Los Angeles Lakers.
There is only one power greater than the power of the Chinese government, the Chinese!!!
That's why the 3D version of Avatar has not been pulled off from Chinese screens yet.
And speaking of 3D, SONY is bringing an all-CGI "Popeye" to the big screen, to pop eyes in 3D.
Speaking of cartoons in 3D, it suddenly strikes me which sports game will have the best effect if televised in 3D. To me, it's American football, even though I am a die-hard basketball fan. And ESPN already did a good dabble job in broadcasting USC-Ohio St. college football game last year.
Another question, would it be great for the sports video games to be in 3D version? Imagine one day we can play NBA live in 3D? Would that be lots of fun?
Just an hour ago, Nintendo seemed to have heard me, they are officially planning to sell a new portable 3D gaming devise that doesn't require special glasses.
Just an hour ago, Nintendo seemed to have heard me, they are officially planning to sell a new portable 3D gaming devise that doesn't require special glasses.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Every bracket has its buster
The upsets have been the major tunes of the first March Madness in the first year of a new decade.
Northern Iowa is made up of...not brave soldiers...but suicide squad. They dared to silence the columnists, and then enjoyed the noise of glasses breaking, the experts' eyeglasses.
UNI reminds me of New Orleans Saints, coming out of nowhere, and wound up as the happiest Cinderella.
All that I learned from today's NCAA men's basketball games:
Every bracket has its buster! That's the beauty of March Madness!!!
The glorious regular season could be a curse to the sudden death of the No.1 seed Kansas. Just like the way that Matt Leinart's glorious days at USC cursing his NFL career?
If the previous glorious days didn't result in the current grim nights, then it must be the American's beloved president's bracket predictions that jinxed the top seeds.
Believe it or not, not only sports fans in the U.S. are crazy about the NCAA brackets, fans across the Pacific Ocean are crazier.
They've been following all the country's ESPN experts and their basketball-freak POTUS bracket and even rank them by points. Tracing the ESPN bracket experts. ESPN Bracket神棍追踪.
Though the only thing I know about Kentucky is their Fried Chicken, I decided to root for them because of Darius Miller! Go #1!!!
Final Four in my mind: Kentucky, Ohio St, Xavier, Duke!!! Who's with me?
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