We have Super Bowl Picks, a review of the Royal Rumble, a review of the newest Glee episode and detailed recaps of very busy weeks for the Devils, Admirals & Wave. All that and alot of wrestling and entertainment news.
Through all this though, I find time to post the first round of Wrestlemania Projections up on Monday morning. So if you could jump over and give that a quick read.
Oh last week was the debut of our new web address, ereport1.blogspot.com. I forgot to mention it before I posted so if you had problems getting to the back issues I'm sorry. This will be fixed over the next couple of days.
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Alright let's get on with the show...
Honestly I'm not watching the game on Sunday. The matchup does absolutely nothing for me. I don't care about either team and I definitely don't care of the Ray Lewis story. My pick us mainly because I'm a NFC guy and they might as week keep the trophy in the conference till the Giants or the Packers wake up next season.
Taking the 49ers this week, I think the Ray Lewis magic has run its course and this is just the start of what I think is the next Elite QB for years to come... Colin Kaepernick... 49ers 31 Ravens 17
- Pre-Show: Antonio Cesaro pinned The Miz to retain the United States Championship
- Alberto Del Rio defeated The Big Show in a Last Man Standing match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship
- Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane) defeated Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes & Damian Sandow) to retain the WWE World Tag Team Championship when Bryan submitted Rhodes
- John Cena won the Royal Rumble match
- The Rock pinned CM Punk to the WWE Championship
Thoughts
Let's take this match by match.
First of all from what I saw of the pre show match, it was alright. Not surprising to see Cesaro retain.
I loved the package that opened the show. I'm a sucker for the countdown clock and I fact that it set a theme for the show, "Time."
Before I get to the opening match, why did Bret Hart make a cameo? I mean Ricardo was hysterical as the uber fan and wearing the glasses made me laugh, but it was so random.
On to the World Heavyweight Championship match. This was a really fun match. I loved the choke slam off the top of the set. I picked ADR and it makes sense for him to retain by duck tape? I hope I wasn't the only one who had Batista pop into his head, "Duck tape!?!? Really duck tape?!?!"
There's not much to say about the Tag Team Championship match. I'm surprised Team Hell No retained. Then again I just couldn't see a way for them to lose even though I picked it.
Before I continue, no Diva's title match? Really? I wanted to see Kaitlyn!
Now the Royal Rumble match. This really felt so early. I'll do this as bullet points.
- Y2J shocked me. There hasn't been a Rumble entry that stunned me like that in a long time.
- I could go a while without hearing 3MB's music again.
- Seeing Goldust and Cody go at it made me smile. I hope we finally get to see that match.
- Bo Dallas did good in the match. I'm happy they are sitting up him vs. Barrett.
- The Godfather? Where did that come from?
- Bryan and Kane made me laugh again. When Kane caught Bryan I almost lost it. Thought it was close to how Kane held AJ when she made out with him.
- Ziggler did great is this match. I was almost convinced he was going to last till the very end.
- I was totally all in when it came down to Sheamus, Ryback and Cena.
- Cena winning doesn't surprise me at all. It was predictable but there is nothing wrong with that.
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Overall it was a good show with an awesome Rumble match.
Rock, you'd better start taking your vitamins and eating your Fruity Pebbles. Brother. At the very least, I'd get that stupid smirk off your face. This person's champ will be here the day after Wrestlemania.
In honor of his win and my hopes for the Rock's demise, the P&P Piece of the Week is this rainbow magnet set.
Short and sweet this week, like me. I'll make sure my husband adds a great picture of Cena to make up for the lack of words. That'll leave you as speechless as I am this week!
Stay Puzzled and Polished!
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First of all, we had the story of the Sadie Hawkins Dance at McKinley. Coach Beiste convinced Finn to use that to inspire the girls to sing to the guys to ask them to the dance. What I didn't expect was that Tina was going to sing I Don't Know How To Love You Him to Blaine! Where did that come from? This revealed that both of them actually have crushes on Sam, who's still dating Brittany. Gotta love high school stories. At least this lead to Marley singing Tell Him to Jake, with amazing backups (even Sugar actually sang!). That was just fun.
Before I continue I have to New York real fast. I want to ignore the Rachel/Brody storyline, I really do. There's so much other stuff going on I just don't care. As for Kurt, he is trying to fit in at NYADA and he found a show choir, Adam's Apples. Despite Rachel telling him not to, he went to a practice and found all the rejects singing an uncomfortable version of Baby Got Back that made me happy I don't buy Glee songs on ITunes anymore. That just was bad and really weird even by Glee standards. The only goal that came out of this was that Kurt has a crush on the lead so good for him. That's all I'm going to say about that mess.
Back to McKinley, Jake gets an offer from Kitty that she'll put out if he drops Marley for her. Talk about blunt. Jake went to Puck for advice and Puck said that he'll take care of Kitty and to take Marley to the dance. Do I even gave to explain where this went? Puck sleeps with everyone, no matter how immoral it truly seems.
During the dance, the major development was Marley asking Jake to be her boyfriend which was sweet and even more surprising when he agreed to moving slow. Also we got a great cameo from Zines! No need to comment more on that, it was just great to see her.
No finally the big reveal at the end of the show. Blaine and Sam have found that The Warblers cheated by shooting up with HGH. They even had a close friend of Blaine's tell Finn everything and we were left with a cliffhanger whether this news will go public. I knew they would find a way back into competitions but I didn't see that coming.
Overall good show, could have done without the New York stuff though.
Next week's show is called Naked. I'm intrigued if only based on the set list and the preview. I just don't want another sex episode.
1/25/13-Washington at New Jersey
What a game! The Capitals came into the Rock looking for their first win of the season and failed. But they put up a great fight. The Devils took a 2-0 lead on a shorthanded goal by Stephen Gionta and a 5-on-3 power play goal by Patrick Elias. In the third Washington drove back and tied the game on Mike Ribeiro and Mike Green goals. This sent the game to overtime. With 20.5 seconds left in the period, Ilya Kovalchuk won the game for New Jersey.
1/27/13-New Jersey at Montreal
Well you can't win then all, especially in a busy shortened season. The Devils went into Montreal and at least got a point. Montreal took a 2-0 lead on goals by Ryan White and Brendan Gallagher. In the 2nd, Patrick Elias made it one goal game. But quickly in the beginning of the 3rd Brandon Prust made it a 3-1 game. New Jersey came back and tied it up when David Clarkson and Dainius Zubrus scored to send the game to overtime. The Canadiens won the game when Andrei Markov scored with 38 seconds left in the game.
New Jersey at Boston
For how good the Bruins are right now, putting up a fight and getting out with a point is a job well done this early in the season. Johan Hedberg made 27 saves in his first start of the season, but the Devils couldn't score enough against Taukka Rask, and lost 2-1 in a shootout. David Clarkson scored for New Jersey on the power play, the first power play goal that the Bruins have given up this season. Boston tied the game on a goal by Nathan Horton with 4:05 left in regulation. Brad Marchad won the game for the Bs in the sixth round of the shootout.
Much like every week this season, it will be a busy week for the Devils. Tomorrow night they are home against the New York Islanders. Then they play back-to-back afternoon games over the weekend in Pittsburgh (on NHL Network) and then back to Long Island to face the Isles again. Finally Tuesday night the Rangers return to The Rock for the first time since Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Despite being outshot by the Barons 46-29, the Admirals destroyed a depleted Oklahoma City team 8-2. Jauso Puustinen lead the way with a hat trick, Brad Winchester tallied a goal and two assists and Taylor Beck added three assists. Jeremy Smith had a career high 44 saves. This snapped the Ads' six game losing streak.
1/26/13-Milwaukee at Peoria
After losing three straight at the Carver Arena, the Ads got back above .500 with a 3-2 overtime won over the Rivermen. Milwaukee took a 2-0 lead on goals by Jack MacLellan and Taylor Beck. Peoria came all the way back and tied the game on goals by Chris Bruton and Derek Nesbitt. The game went to overtime, and Chris Mueller ended it early to give the Admirals the win. Jeremy Smith made 38 saves going into the all-star break.
1/28/13-AHL All-Star Classic
The Western Conference beat the Eastern Conference 7-6. The only Admiral representative was Victor Bartley tallied one assist in the game.
The Admirals have only one game on the schedule this coming week. They open a seven game home stand playing the arch-rival Chicago Wolves on Friday night.
On Sunday, the Chicago Soul came back to the cell. This meeting was the 3rd game between the 2 clubs in just 2 weeks. So there was bound to be some extra-curricular activities. A total of 11 cards were issued which means the penalty boxes were extremely crowded. The Soul went into the locker room with an 8-4 lead. Christian Meza scored what is potentially going to be the goal of the season to give the soul and 8-2 lead. The third quarter was all Milwaukee. 4 goals from rookie Luan Olivier led Milwaukee to an 18-10 win over Chicago. This win extended Milwaukee's winning streak to 14 straight games and a 5-0 record against the Soul with one more game remaining down in Chicago on February 18th.
The Wave square off against the Missouri Comets Saturday at 6pm. Great ticket deals available.
- Tammy "Sunny" Sytch got arrested for the sixth time, for violating a court order. Really? Who does she think she is? Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes are already at the top if the train-wreck list
- Trish Stratus was names the newest inductee into the 2013 Class of the WWE Hall of Fame. This is turning out to be one of the best classes they ever had. You call tell it's in New York.
- There is a report that Brock Lesnar has signed a two year extension. This is big news and hopefully leads to more matches then this past year.
- Chris Jericho has announced that he will tour will Fozzy and stick with the WWE at the same time through at least Wrestlemania. This is good news especially since they seem to pulling all punches at Mania this year.
- Ring of Honor has officially announced Kevin Steen vs. Jay Lethal for the main event of the 11th Anniversary IPPV in March. Start the speculation that Lethal will be the one to dethrone Steen.
- In the big news of the last week, J.J. Abrams was announced as the director of Star Wars Episode VII. There are no words that describe how awesome this news is.
- Well this is really happening. Rowan Blanchard has been casted as Riley Matthews, the daughter of Cory & Topanga in Girl Meets World. Looking at her picture, that does really work.
- Everything is getting a musical these days. Sleepless in Seattle-The Musical is set to debut at the Pasadena Playhouse in California on May 24, 2013. This is totally real, scary eh?
- Kevin Smith announced this week that the animated film Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie, will be toured throughout the country starting in May 2013. There will be another announcement soon with tour dates and locations. Hopefully they come to Milwaukee.
- This past Sunday night, the Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented. Argo and Lincoln got top movie honors and Modern Family, 30 Rock and Downtown Abbey led the way in the television categories.
- The New York Rangers traded Chad Kolarik to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Benn Ferriero. (1/24/13)
- The Dallas Stars agreed to the terms of a five year contract with Jamie Benn. (1/24/13)
- The Philadelphia Flyers signed Mike Knuble to a one year contract. (1/25/13)
- The New York Rangers signed Jason Arnott to a one year contract. (1/26/13)
- The Montreal Canadiens signed P.K. Subban to a two year contract. (1/28/13)
Next week we will have Super Bowl reactions and the final standings from football picks this season. Also there will be predications for the Grammy Awards and a review of the new Glee episode.
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