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ESPN Fires Writer Over Racial Slur in Jeremy Lin Headline
UPDATED: Monday 2/20, 2:00 p.m. EST
The headline was up for a mere 35 minutes in the middle of the night, but it has caused enough of a stir to get the writer canned. ESPN is apologizing after the phrase, a double entendre, …
SNL’s Five Best Skits: Friends Visit Blue Ivy Carter, Linappropriate Puns
Maya Rudolph’s signature Whitney Houston impression was conspicuously (and appropriately) missing, but that didn’t stop the former SNL powerhouse from bringing the laughs – and a handful of her closest friends. Here are the …
Jeremy Lin Fan’s ‘Fortune Cookie’ Poster Causes Controversy
Fans cheered while Jeremy Lin led the New York Knicks to a 100-85 win against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday, but as MSG Network’s cameras panned the stadium, one fan’s sign stood out from the crowd.
The network aired a …
A Lesson in Lin-guistics: The Best (And Worst) Jeremy Lin Puns
The best part about Jeremy Lin’s rise to fame, or “Linsanity” as we assume it will appear in dictionaries? Even those who know nothing about sports can get involved — or rather, linvolved — by contributing to the linsane …
People Are Already Scrambling to Trademark ‘Linsanity’
As the Knicks go to Linfinity and beyond, some entrepreneurial fans are hoping to cash in.
Goodbye, Couch Surfing: Jeremy Lin Moves out of His Brother’s Place
Rising NBA star Jeremy Lin is ditching his brother’s padded, army green-brown couch for, you know, an actual apartment. Wait, he was still sleeping on his brother’s couch?
That’s right, and it’s all because his contract wasn’t …
Asian-American Inspiration: How Jeremy Lin Is Changing Hoops Culture
Sports fans everywhere are caught up in the mania surrounding New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. But Lin’s impact is most personal, and most satisfying, among a subset of Asian Americans: those who, like Lin, grew up with …
The Rise of Jeremy Lin
The newly minted NBA phenom has traveled an unlikely path from Harvard to the New York Knicks
Wednesday Words: Downton Dialect, Linsanity and More
NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary includes useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Reading While Eating for February 15: Tech Treasures
Wednesday’s links go high-tech with huge phones and dog-toy robots.
Your Turn, Canada: A Second-by-Second Look at Jeremy Lin Lighting Up Toronto
Every day, we seem to learn something new about Jeremy Lin. Here’s the latest, a basketball scouting report for the opposition: if Lin has the ball at the top of the key, and the game is on the line, do not, under any …