"To the players who were very clear they wanted to be on the ice and not negotiating labour contracts, to our partners who support the league financially and personally, and most importantly to our fans, who love and have missed NHL hockey, I'm sorry. I know that an explanation or an apology will not erase the hard feelings that have built up over the past few months but I owe you an apology nevertheless."-Gary Bettman (1/9/13)
With NHL hockey right around the corner, welcome to this week's edition of the Entertainment Report.
What a week, or should I say what a weekend!
Before I get into things a little housekeeping. On Saturday, Team USA won the gold at the World Juniors in Ufa, Russia and we had full coverage. In case you missed it, jump over and read the results of every Team USA and Team Canada game during the entire tournament. Also on Sunday morning after the NHL announced the end of the lockout, I posted a special edition to celebrate. So make sure you read those.
As for this week, it's a busy news week and another heavy sports week. Also debuting this week is Joe's Take and Mandy's Ring Around The Polish, representing our sponsor Puzzled and Polished.
Before I continue on, the only real feedback came from @travlord and the @eastcoastcast retweeting last week's issue and giving us another awesome on air mention. Big thanks to them.
Finally, starting tonight we now have a Twitter account. Follow us @EReport1 to get updates and posts before they even get posted on Facebook.
With that, let's get on with the show...
Houston 19-Cincinnati 13
Green Bay 24-Minnesota 10
Baltimore 24-Indianapolis 9
Seattle 24-Washington 14
Blake: 2-2
Joe: 3-1
Baltimore at Denver
Green Bay at San Francisco
Seattle at Atlanta
Houston at New England
Well last week I totally underestimated the "Ray Lewis" factor and suffered my only loss of the week. But watching Joe Flacco still doesn't have me believing in their offense (especially with Ray Ray putting the ball on the ground). This week I am going ride the "Peyton Manning" factor, I don't think the Ravens can stand up offensively and I can't bet against Peyton. Denver Broncos By a touchdown.
Packers/49ers
Jim Harbaugh will have his 49ers defense up and ready to play after the bye week and the Packers offensive line hasn't doesn't much to help Aaron Rodgers as he has been sacked more than anyone this year. So that would leave it up to Colin Kaepernick and Frank Gore to run this offense and try and outscore the Defending MVP and his slew of Receivers... I Just don't see it happening. I will take the Packers.
Seahawks/Falcons
Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch have been on Fire and Take away the First Quarter of the Redskins Game against the "Healthy" RGIII, and the Defense has been dominant. I have a bad feeling for Matty Ice and the Falcons that this will be another one and done embarrassment.
Texans/Patriots
The Texans will go in with 2 things in mind make sure the Defense is fired up behind JJ "SWatt" and that Arian Foster gets going early and often. If these two things happen it could be the Game of the week, but based on the embarrassing Regular Season match-up vs the Pats and the inconsistencies from Matt Schaub, I fully expect the Patriots to continue on. Look for Tom Brady to find his key Receivers (Welker and Hernandez) often while mixing in the Runningback tandem of Stevan Ridley and the ex-Jet Danny Woodhead on passing downs.
What a great way to start 2013! Austin Watson scored the game winner in a wild back and forth matchup with their arch-rivals Wolves with 1:43 left in the game. Kevin Henderson, Mark Van Guilder and Victor Bartley each tallied a goal and an assist.
1/5/13-Oklahoma City at Milwaukee
After taking a 2-0 lead on Victor Bartley and Kevin Henderson, the Barons turned up their engines and dominated the rest of the game. Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle scored in the third to tie the game and send it to overtime. The game went to a shootout and Oklahoma City won thanks to Justin Schultz.
1/6/13-Grand Rapids at Milwaukee
After the Griffins took a 2-0 lead, the Ads came storming back and tied the game before the second period was over on goals by Victor Bartley and Kevin Henderson. This went to shootout. After a long nine round shootout, Joshua Shalla won it for the Admirals.
This upcoming weekend will be a busy one for the Admirals. Friday night they will head to Peoria, then return home to play Rockford on Saturday night and Peoria on Sunday afternoon.
Syracuse came into the US Cellular Arena with one thing on their minds. The opportunity to gain revenge for their 12-11 loss to the Milwaukee Wave the day after Christmas. Recently acquired midfielder Bryan Perez put the Silver Knights up 2-0 midway through the first. Another 2 point goal put the knights up 4-0 until Hewerton put the Wave on the board midway through the second. Syracuse regained their 4-point advantage by making it 6-2 at half. A place unfamiliar to the Wave. Another goal in the 3rd increased the lead to 6 at 8-2. Having won 8 straight, the Wave knew that this game wasn't over and came back with a fantastic rally and a huge 3-point goal from Marcio Leite to defeat the knights 13-10. The team plays in Missouri Thursday before returning home to face the Baltimore Blast at 4pm on Saturday evening.
Ring Around The Polish is my little piece of the Report that brings a little humor and a little style to the squared circle. Let's begin, shall we?
If you put Taylor Swift, a touch of ass-kicking, a handful of skipping and a dash of insanity into a blender you'd have...well, a big ol' blonde country mess but also a pretty good idea of the AJ Lee character.They both have boyfriends for every season - literally. AJ's played tonsil hockey with a goat, a monster and a former cheerleader just to name a few of her escapades. She even managed to help herself to a bowl of Fruity Pebbles and I have to admit even I was a little jealous of that one.
It matches his shirt and maybe the sparkles will distract him from finding out how cray cray she really is.
Stay Puzzled & Polished
- This past week Dolph Ziggler, Antonio Cesaro and 3MB all entered themselves into the Royal Rumble, bringing the total to eight so far.
- Alberto Del Rio beat Big Show to win the World Heavyweight Championship in a last man standing match at the Smackdown taping on Tuesday night. For the record it's no longer a spoiler if it's up on WWE.com.
- It is being reported that El Genarico signed with the WWE. That is a big surprise and completely unexpected. Not quite sure how he's going to work in WWE but hey stranger things happen.
- "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero announced on Twitter that he is leaving TNA. Can't say that surprises anyone.
- Former WWE wrestler Mike Knox was revealed as a member of Aces & Eights on Impact last week. The fans collectively didn't care.
- John Cena will be in cartoon form on the limit edition boxes of Fruity Pebbles. Can't make stuff like that up.
- Someone explain to me why Jon Gruden is getting such crap for taking his kids to WWE Raw instead of going to the BCS Championship. Not quite why this is such a big deal, especially since the game turned into a blowout.
- Congrats to Alabama for winning the BCS Championship over Norte Dame 42-14. Also would like to thank them for making the game such a blowout so early so it made it easier to watch Raw instead.
- The Razzie nominations came out this week and Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II leads the noms with 11. That's impressive because there's only 10 categories.
- Disney announced plans to open Aladdin at the New Amsterdam Theater in 2014. This is not surprising with the success of Newsies but they better the fate of The Little Mermaid and Tarzan.
- In the duh department, screenwriter Kelly Marcel has stated that the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey should be NC-17. Is there a need to further comment.
Friday look for a special PPV preview for TNA Genesis after TNA finalizes the card. Next week we will have a NHL preview, predictions for the NFL Conference Championship weekend and a review of this Sunday's TNA show.
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Till next week thank you for reading, spread the word and have a great week!
