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Jeremy Lin in the Marquette locker room, for some reason.
(Source: insertnameherex)
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Obama: Jeremy is —
BS: Jeremy Lin.
Obama: — doing good. And I knew about Jeremy before you did, or everybody else did, because Arne Duncan, my Secretary of Education, was captain of the Harvard team. And so way back when, Arne and I were playing and he said, I’m telling you, we’ve got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard. And then one of my best friends, his son is a freshman at Harvard, and so when he went for a recruiting trip he saw Lin in action. So I’ve been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while.
"― B.S. Report Transcript: Barack Obama - The Triangle Blog - Grantland
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#BeforeLinsanity - BallSoHarvard Edition
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Help us find the Nerd All-Stars
A little while ago, I posted video of the Jeremy Lin/Landry Fields nerd shake on my Facebook page. My friend Elisa Mala, who actually went to Columbia, and therefore knows her nerds, suggested we create a Fantasy Nerd All-Star team. Between the two of us, we settled on the following possibilities, based on either nerdy name quality, actual educational background, or both. You can vote for five, and keep coming back to stuff the ballot box.
- "Lin has managed to make something bigger than their bullshit and he’s riding it out from behind the stage. And a month from now will be the first spring all the coaches in America go through their teams one more time for the Asian kid they missed. They’ll never miss him again."
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Behind the locker room doors before and after Lin’s game-winning shot against the Raptors | Ball Don't Lie - Yahoo! Sports
Yay @stackmack:
“Off of the court, Lin is the opposite of flashy. Third from the right, sandwiched between Landry Fields and Jerome Jordan, Lin’s locker is free of jewelry, high-fashion designer threads or $1,800 jars of lotion. There’s a watch sitting on the bench, a watch without any diamonds, black, white or gold. There’s a book propped up against the locker, “Mastering the Art of Success,” that was hand-delivered by former Raptor and Knick Jerome Williams.”
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What more can you ask for? He went to Harvard!
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Where the Linsanity began.
(Source: charityline)
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"He taps into the passions of Harvard alumni, Ivy Leaguers, New Yorkers and anyone anywhere who loves an underdog."
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Jeremy Lin Has Burst From N.B.A. Novelty Act to Knicks Star
Weird sentence - because I don’t consider Harvard alumni and Ivy Leaguers as underdogs.. but whatevs - go Jeremy!
(via joshuanguyen)
I’m actually going to disagree with Joshua, not in the overall substance of what he’s saying here, but in detail. After reading Kathy Orton’s book Outside the Limelight, I had an epiphany: playing basketball at Harvard (or any Ivy League school, for that matter) is almost more of an impediment to success.
Let me explain.
Ivy hoopsters don’t get scholarships. Absent Jeremy Lin and Bill Bradley, they have almost zero role models for professional success. Spending time at practice and traveling for games actually makes it harder for them to focus on the academic side of things, which is where they have zillions of role models for success. There’s a subtle snobbery toward athletes, who are suspected of being admitted for reasons other than brains. To me, nobody loves the game like these kids do, because they get no monetary reward or boost in social status from playing.
Make sense?
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