Entertainment Report Issue #9 (Glease, DWTS, Green Day, WWE Survivor Series and more)

"Love to eat turkey cause it's good. Love to eat turkey like a good boy should cause it's turkey to eat, so good."-Adam Sandler

Welcome to the Thanksgiving week edition of the Entertainment Report. Despite it being a holiday week, this is a jam-packed issue.

First of all, I'd like to welcome Scott (@ScottFellows23) to the staff. He will be helping grow the sports section with extensive soccer coverage. Today will be the debut of his Wave Weekly Report, and down the road he will covering the international side of the game as well. He's a huge soccer nerd and is proud to join up to provide his knowledge in the report.


#2, quick shout out to @travlord and the @eastcoastcast who continues to support the Report every week.

Finally a quick Podcast Plug. On Friday morning the Tell 'Em Steve Dave crew put together a special premium Christmas podcast. The proceeds from the sales are going to Hurricane Sandy relief.

Alright let's get into this issue...

Best Song: Greased Lightning
Worst Song: There Are Worst Things I Could Do (just the Cassandra part)

Wow Glee. Simply wow. This was unreal and alot of fun. This is how you do a tribute show. Just about every song made sense for the storyline or the person singing it.

First there was Greased Lightning which looked like a stretch at first. But when they used the original cars from the movie, I lost it. Plus it helped put over that Finn knows how to inspire the Glee Club.

Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee worked to push the Kitty-Marley story. Also they did everything to make that room look like the bedroom in the movie down to the pictures on the wall. I admit I laughed at "Are you making fun of me Kitty?" "Some people can be so touchy."

Before I continue though, I really hated the whole story of Kitty convincing Marley that she has to throw up to "drop some weight". Maybe it's just too close to home for me. I know it's a huge issue in schools and whatnot, but it didn't work for me. At least it had a happy ending and it taught a good lesson.

And while I'm on stuff I didn't like, the whole Rachel-Cassandra-Brody story doesn't fit the Glee world. It feels like a 90210/Melrose Place storyline. Plus it ruined There Are Worse Things I Could Do for me.

Okay back to the good stuff. We get on stage for Grease and get to see Beauty School Dropout, which is my least favorite song in the original show. But it this case it was Blaine being able to sing and perform. I could watch performances like this for hours. To add to it, Sugar as Frenchy was amazingly accurate. Plus the slight interaction between Blaine and Kurt in the crowd was subtle but perfect.

Now despite my hatred for the storyline, having Ryder snap Marley back to reality was greats especially since it lead to the chilling rendition of Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise) and then kissing right in front of Puck Lite. (That was for @Mama_Mandabear.)

As for the non-Cassandra portion of There Are Worse Things I Could Do. I felt bad for Unique, he deserved to play Rizzo, but it was a very Sue thing to try and screw Finn and the Glee club over by getting his parents to take him out of that spot. That lead to Santana bring brought in, and wow. Can I just version of this song just her? It fit her character so well, especially with Britney watching. But when Unique joined it, it made me smile.

Now finally the grand finale. You're The One That I Want might go down as one of the best and most surprising group numbers in Glee history. It started normal with Ryder and Marley singing and showing off their new relationship, then through the ride and then we entered fantasy mode. Finn and Rachel came out the other side and we got a flashback to the first ever song they sang together in the pilot. Then suddenly all the couple were back together on stage, Finn & Rachel, Kurt & Blaine, Brittany & Santana and ever Tina & Mike with Artie, Mercedes and Sam doing back up. It was amazing and made me proud to be a Gleek.

But the happiness didn't lost because Rachel and Finn got into a big fight, ending them for good, right after Rachel found out about Cassandra and Brody.

Overall, that was a great episode. While not perfect, close enough for me.

Grade: A

This has been the most thrilling season yet. This week's semifinals was no different. So since there was only five couples this week, let's go through them in order.

Melissa & Tony

They opened the show with the "Caveman Hustle". I really enjoyed it even though the stupid dinosaur took me out of the moment for a minute. The Michael Jackson song they did was Dirty Diana, which they did an Argentine Tango. That was stunning and they totally deserved a perfect score.

Shawn & Derek

Their first dance was the "Knight Rider Bhangra" which was extremely entertaining and well done. The second dance was the Argentine Tango to MJ's Bad. I personally that this deserved a 30 as well. It was that good.

Apolo & Karina

As much as I love Apolo, I didn't enjoy the "Big Top Jazz". It was just not up to their standards. This was evident with their amazing Rumba to Man in the Mirror. That was just brilliant.

Emmitt & Cheryl

I was openly laughing during their "Espionage Lindy Hop". Maybe it was the song, Secret Agent Man, but I was thoroughly entertained. Their Tango to Leave Me Alone was really good, but not their best.

Kelly & Val

Obviously I enjoyed their "Surfer Flamenco" more then the judges. Then again, I also don't know the difference between the Samba and the Flamenco. Their Rumba to I Just Can't Stop Loving You was also really good.

Judge's Scoreboard

Shawn & Derek-59
Melissa & Tony-57.5
Apolo & Karina-57
Emmitt & Cheryl-54
Kelly & Val-54

Eliminated: Emmitt & Cheryl and Apolo & Karina

Wow. It is now a all female final. I'm sad to see Apolo & Emmitt go, but I'm definitely looking forward to the Finals next week.

Episode: The Running Dead

This week's show was really good. It was mainly centered around Mike & Ming running a 5k zombie run representing the Wayne Foundation. Watching Bryan "train" them was hysterical, especially the hokey video montage. The race itself was actually pretty awesome. It was more like a crazy obstacle course with crazy people dressed like zombies.

Meanwhile at the Stash, they got fun items. First there was a baseball autographed by a bunch of cast members and guest stars from the 1966 Batman TV series, which was just really cool. There was also an unopened box of Batman cereal from 1989, which Ming decided was a good idea to have a bite of it, a copy if Sheena #2 and House of Secrets #92 featuring the appearance of Swamp Thing.

One final note, is it bad I really hoped the guy who crab walked out the door for $5 got hit by a car when he got outside?

Results:

Pre-Show Match: 3MB (Jinder Mahal & Heath Slater) vs. Zack Ryder & Santino

Brodus Clay, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara defeated Tensai, Primo & Epico and the Primetime Players (Titus O'Neil & Darren Young) in a traditional elimination match

• Tensai pinned Brodus Clay
• Justin Gabriel pinned Tensai
• Tyson Kidd pinned Titus O'Neil
• Tyson Kidd submitted Epico
• Rey Mysterio pinned Primo
• Rey Mysterio pinned Darren Young

Survivors: Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel

Eve pinned Kaitlyn to retain the WWE Diva's Championship

Antonio Cesaro defeated R-Truth to retain the United States Championship

Sheamus defeated The Big Show by DQ, The Big Show retained the World Heavyweight Championship

Team Ziggler (Dolph Ziggler, Wade Barrett, Damien Sandow, Alberto Del Rio & David Otunga) defeated Team Foley (Kofi Kingston, Randy Orton, The Miz & Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane) in a traditional elimination match

• Kane pinned Damien Sandow
• Dolph Ziggler pinned Kane
• Daniel Bryan submitted David Otunga
• Wade Barrett pinned Kofi Kingston
• Alberto Del Rio submitted Daniel Bryan
• The Miz pinned Wade Barrett
• Alberto Del Rio pinned The Miz
• Dolph Ziggler pinned Randy Orton

Sole Survivor: Dolph Ziggler

CM Punk pinned John Cena to retain the WWE Championship after Seth Rollins, Ramon Reigns and Dean Ambrose attacked Ryback after hitting the Shellshock on both Cena and Punk

Thoughts

This was a pretty show overall. I could say that because we ordered it, our first PPV buy since Mania.

The opening elimination match was a nice surprise. Why aren't Gabriel & Kidd, Rey & Sin Cara and Epico & Primo and even the Primetime Players in more matches like this where they could show off their skills? If one thing came out of this, it gave hope for the tag team division.

It was nice to see that they finally ended the Eve-Kaitlyn-Aksana storyline, but Kaitlyn deserved to win the title.

The Cesaro-Truth match was kinda just there. It happened and then it was over. Not much to note.

I really enjoyed the Sheamus-Big Show match. The two of them have amazing chemistry. While the ending was cheap and didn't make much sense, it did set up their Chairs match at TLC.

As for the main event elimination match, it was really good. The storyline of the match was that both teams just didn't get along and I thought they told it well. The fact that came down to Orton & Miz vs. Ziggler and Del Rio was a fitting idea. Miz is going to be a great face when they are ready to turn that page. Seeing Ziggler win with a super kick really shocked me. I haven't seen someone win with a super kick like that since HBK retired.

Now the main event. I thought this was a great triple threat match. Seeing Punk & Cena team up to throw Ryback through the announced got me really excited. Also it was crazy to see Ryback hit the Shellshock on Punk AND Cena. When the NXT trio hit the ring, I recognized Seth Rollins right away, Dean Ambrose and Ramon Reigns not so much. It was a nice surprise and shocking to see them destroy Ryback. Everyone knew Punk would win but no one was sure how. This worked for me.

11/16/12-Admirals at Oklahoma City

The Ads continued their road trip in OKC to face the Barons. This matchup turned in a goalie duel. Jeremy Smith made 24 saves, but was one-upped by Yanni Danis who made 43 saves to lead the Barons to a 2-1 overtime victory. Mark Ardobello scored the game winner 3:18 into the overtime period.

11/17/12-Admirals at Oklahoma City

For the second night in a row, the Barons beat the Ads, this time 5-2. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tallied two goals and an assist. But the story of the game was the 60 combined penalty minutes in the first period, including three fights.

11/20/12-Milwaukee at Chicago

The Wolves got their revenge on the Ads with a 5-3 win. Brett Sterling lead Chicago with 2 goals and an assist. Chris Mueller also tallied two goals and an assist in the loss. The Ads have now lost 7 of 11 road games this season.

The Ads continue their road trip in a three pack over the weekend. They head to Peoria on Friday night, back to Chicago on Saturday night and then an afternoon game in Grand Rapids on Sunday.

Cliché as it sounds, that is exactly the feeling that the Baltimore Blast had this past weekend as they defeated the 6-Time MISL Champion Milwaukee Wave. Last March with only 46 seconds into the first overtime period, Joe Hammes finished off the game winning goal to defeat the Blast in the MISL Title game. This was the second consecutive year in which the Wave was crowned league champions. Needless to say the Blast waited 8 months to get their opportunity to meet their arch-rivals once again, and they did not disappoint their loyal fans. Second year defender Mike Deasel started the scoring off early with a 2-point goal. In the MISL goals are worth 2 and 3 points. Less than a minute later the Wave’s Veteran target forward Giuliano Oliviero finished off a pass from Jonathan Greenfield to level the game at 2. Go ahead goals by Tino Nunez and Tony Donatelli pushed the Blast lead to 6-2. With just over 6 minutes remaining in the first half, a clear rookie mistake from goalkeeper William Vanzela rewarded Milwaukee with a restart from the top of the box where Evan McNeley finished it off to make it 6-4. For the first time in years, the Wave was held to only 2 goals. A 15-4 victory for the Baltimore fans was bittersweet not only for them, but for the players as well. Baltimore remains 5-0 while Milwaukee drops to 1-2. Up next for Milwaukee is Saturday December 1st at 6:00 pm Vs. The Chicago Soul at the U.S. Cellular Arena.

Wrestling Newsbytes

2012 NWA Hall of Fame Class Announced

The NWA announced their annual hall of fame class.

Paul Boesch (Promoter)
John Tolas
Mr. Wrestling II
Ricky Steamboat
Fabulous Moolah
Joyce Grable
Misty Blue
Road Warriors (Hawk & Animal)
Little Beaver (Midget)
Teddy Long (Referee)
Sputnik Monroe (Humanitarian Award)

Congrats to all the inductees.

Quick Hits

• The American Music Awards was Sunday night. Justin Bieber lead the night with three awards, Artist of the Year, Pop/Rock Male Artist and Pop/Rock Album. Nicki Minaji swept the Rap/Hip Hop categories, Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan and Lady A won the country awards, and Katy Perry, Maroon 5 and Carly Rae Jepen capped out the bigger awards. The low tier category, Usher, Beyonce, Rihanna, Linkin Park, Adele & Shakira added to their trophy cases.

This is the second of their three albums coming out this year. Right off the bat this album had a different tone to it compared to Uno! with Fuck Time. Also when compared to Uno! this album flows alot better plus the songs are better and catchier. This actually feels like a rock album instead of a pop/rock album.

Grade: A-
Favorite Song: Stray Heart

That's it for this week. Next week I will be posting a special edition analyzing the finals of Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday morning with my projected winner. Then in the next regular issue, there will be coverage of a brand new Thanksgiving night Glee, the results of DWTS and much more.

Finally jump on over and check out my Week 12 NFL Picks, especially after my 12-2 Week 11.

Like always if you have any thoughts, comments or anything at all, shoot me an email at entertainreport@gmail.com or find me on Twitter @Reilly21106.

Till next week, hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to all my loyal regular readers.

As always, thank you for reading and see ya next week!

NFL Picks Week 12

Week 11 Results:12-2

Houston at Detroit
Washington at Dallas
New England at NY Jets
Minnesota at Chicago
Oakland at Cincinnati
Pittsburgh at Cleveland
Buffalo at Indianapolis
Tennessee at Jacksonville
Denver at Kansas City
Seattle at Miami
Atlanta at Tampa Bay
Baltimore at San Diego
St. Louis at Arizona
San Francisco at New Orleans
Green Bay at NY Giants
Carolina at Philadelphia

Entertainment Report Issue #8 (Glee, DWTS, TNA Turning Point, WWESurvivor Series and more)

Welcome to a very jam packed issue of the Entertainment Report, so let's get into this. Quickly, other than my weekly @travlord and @EastCoastCast retweet, I again have an empty feedback bag. If you have comments or anything to say, email me at entertainreport@gmail.com or tweet me @Reilly21106. I want to know your thoughts and opinions on the report and if anyone is actually reading.

Let's get into it...

Best Song: Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
Worst Song: Jukebox hero

This episode is why I love this show. It was a fast paced story driven episode leading to other things. This was a setup to the Glease episode next week. It included the tryouts for Grease, with directors Artie and Finn, choreographer Mike Chang and music coach Mercedes!

First off, I am so excited they are doing Grease. I'll admit I loved Blaine's version of Hopelessly Devoted to You and I went completely nuts when they broke into the Hand Jive, a dance I never thought I would see on Glee. The fact that Glee did the Hand Jive before Gangham Style is amazing to me.

As for the other stuff, usually I don't like Unique's songs but damn him and Marley (!!!) singing Pink's Blow Me (One Last Kiss) was amazing! That song makes me so giddy every time I've listened to it since the show aired. It was just so much fun and exciting and something we haven't had yet this season.

Now we get to our Glee Project winner, Blake, making his debut. I'm still not a fan that he won the show but he did a good job here. I like the fact that it looks like Finn is going to be his mentor. I just wasn't a fan of Jukebox Hero, I think he could have done something else for his first song on the show, even if it's not going to be a Grease song. Everybody Talks was better, and I'm just shocked that Kitty can sing.

I am so excited for next week's show. Just get to that one!

Grade: B+

It's a week like this where the all-star format is painful. A double elimination week is rough anyway, but when the semifinals are next week, this one was a killer.

Elimination: Kirstie and Maks & Gilles and PETA

Melissa and Tony right now are the couple to beat, 99 out of 100 in a two week span is amazing.

Moving onto next week, the couples picked the dances for the others again, but this time around it was alot more ridiculous, even Tom admitted that. I really just want to say the names of these dances.

Melissa & Tony-"Cavemen" Hustle
Shawn & Derek-"Knight Rider" Banghna
Apolo & Karina-"Big Top" Jazz
Emmitt & Cheryl-"Espionage" Lindy Hop
Kelly & Val-"Surfer" Flamenco

I really can't make any of that up.

Personal note, seeing the cast of Newsies never gets old. They are amazing.

So next week's semifinals consists of those strange dances and an awesome tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad.

Episode: The Sidewalk Stash

This week's show was actually a very low key episode, but very good.

First off, I want to see that wheel that Ming was made for the sidewalk sale, for no other reason but to see what he wrote on every slot. They didn't show it cut I guarantee Walt wasn't happy with the "Free Comic" slot. 

As for transactions, I did enjoy hearing the history of TMNT and Star Wars laser discs. The highlight of the show was definitely the Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, it's very rare and cool to see. 

Good show overall. 

I'm starting to agree with alot of people that unless they are on the road, they don't care about what they put on PPV at the point. Not much happened at this show. There isn't really a whole to talk about. I hope they know what they are doing with AJ Styles with him getting pinned by James Storm. Other than that, it was a pretty much filler show.

Samoa Joe defeated Magnus to retain the TNA World Television Championship
ODB and Eric Young defeated Tara and Jesse
Rob Van Dam defeated Joey Ryan to retain the TNA X Division Championship
DOC defeated Joseph Park
Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez defeated Christopher Daniels and Kazarian to retain the TNA World Tag Team Championship
James Storm defeated AJ Styles and Bobby Roode to become the #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, AJ Style cannot get a title shot till Bound for Glory 2013
Kurt Angle defeated Devon
Jeff Hardy defeated Austin Aries in a ladder match to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship

Wow. A match actually makes sense for storyline reasons, yet it didn't get announced right away. Going into this match Punk will on his 364th day as WWE Champion, as much I want to see Ryback or Cena to win the belt, it's not going to happen here...

Winner and still WWE Champion: CM Punk

I'm really looking forward to this match up because I didn't get to see the first match up last month. This should be awesome. As much as I would love to see Sheamus win back the belt, I have a feel there are bigger things in the works for Show down the road. 

Winner and still World Heavyweight Champion: The Big Show

This is interesting match up, especially since the point of Team Foley is now that Punk is no longer in this match. Honestly this might actually be the most unpredictable match on the card. This could end two different ways, Miz could turn on his team or...

Winner: Team Foley Sole Survivor: The Miz

Wait what? What the hell? This is a weird match up. I thought this supossed to be Justin Gabriel not R-Truth. If it was Gabriel I wouldn't say...

Winner and still WWE United States Champion: Antonio Cesaro

Now this is a really good matchup. I do have one question though did the storyline of who attacked Kaitlyn at Night of Champions? Maybe they did I don't remember. If they did, and I just forgot...

Winner and new WWE Diva's Champion: Kaitlyn

11/9/12-Chicago at Milwaukee

What a crazy game. It was already 3-2 Ads halfway through the first period, and they held on for a 7-4 win over their arch-rival. Taylor Beck got two goals and an assist, even though the crowd thought he got a hat trick. Ads are now up 1-0 in the Amtrak Rivalry. 

11/10/12-Milwaukee at Rockford

Look at that the Ads CAN win two in a row!!! Mike Moore's two goals lead Milwaukee to a 4-2 win against the Ice Hogs.This ended the six game losing streak against Rockford.

The Admirals are just beginning a long seven game road trip. Friday and Saturday night they are playing two games in Oklahoma City against the Barons. Then on Tuesday they head to Chicago for the first time this year to take on the Wolves in the second game of the Amtrak Rivalry.

Quick Hits

• I'll admit that I got a chuckle that Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez broke up. When I read that I think I hear millions of tween yell in glee all at the same time
• Maybe I'm old school but the news that Annie reopened on Broadway made me smile ear to ear. I might not get to see it, but I would love to. Hopefully they at least get to perform at the Thanksgiving Parade this year.
• Congrats to Mats Sudin, Joe Sakic, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates on being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. It's too bad the ceremony was in the shadows of the lockout. They deserve better.

Last year when Glee did West Side Story, I, much like alot of Gleeks, wanted a full soundtrack like they did for Rocky Horror. Even if the full songs weren't on the show, take them and put them on an album. We didn't get it. This year they are doing Grease and get the full album.

First of all, Grease is in my top three musicals of all time with Rent and West Side Story. It was the first musical I fell in love with. So you can imagine how giddy I got when Glease was announced. Now the tricky part, making it work in 2012. Grease might be rated PG but it's very racy at times and I was curious how they were going to work around it. So I broke my personal rule and listened to the soundtrack early. Wow simply wow.

First off was the editing of Greased Lightning. I'll admit I got a nice laugh out of the edits. I mean I know they can't get away with lines like "That ain't no shit, we be gettin lots of tit", "The chick'll cream" and "she's a real pussy wagon", but the censor jobs were beyond strange.But if you get past them it's alot of fun. Also it sounds like Rizzo doesn't sing Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee in this version, but it works for the story of the show, just an unexpected change.

As for the rest, awesome job. I'm so giddy and happy with the album that I found my new obsession for awhile.

Only thing it's missing is We Go Together, that is disappointing but hearing Darren Criss sings Beauty School Dropout makes up for it.

Grade: A

That's it for this week. As always check out my Week 11 NFL Picks. Next week I will be covering Glease, the semi finals of Dancing with the Stars, what happened at WWE Survivor Series and there will be a review of Green Day's latest album ¡Dos!. All that and whatever else happens this week going into Thanksgiving.&nbsp

Till then, have a good week and thank you for reading!

NFL Picks Week 11

Week 10 Results: 8-5-1

Miami at Buffalo
Arizona at Atlanta
Tampa Bay at Carolina
Cleveland at Dallas
Green Bay at Detroit
Jacksonville at Houston
Cincinnati at Kansas City
Indianapolis at New England
NY Jets at St. Louis
Philadelphia at Washington
New Orleans at Oakland
San Diego at Denver
Baltimore at Pittsburgh
Chicago at San Francisco

Entertainment Report Issue #7.5: TNA Turning Point PPV Special Edition

Welcome to a special edition of the Entertainment Report. I screwed up and messed up my dates. I forgot that TNA Turning Point was this Sunday so I never posted my picks for the show so that's why we have our first half issue and PPV only report. (I think I will be doing this as long as TNA is live so I review the full card.)

The rematch from Bound for Glory. This should be a great match. With it being a ladder match and Hardy's first PPV title defense, I don't see it any other way.

Winner and still World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Hardy

The added stipulation is that the one who gets pinned will not get another title shot till BFG 13. It's intriguing  especially if Jeff does retain. So I think AJ Styles will get pinned and

Winner and new #1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship: Bobby Roode

I love Daniels and Kazarian as a tag team, I never wanted them to lose the belts. I didn't want Chavo and Hernandez to win the belts. This has been an awful start to a rivalry because it's been about race. I'm sick of these things.

Winners and new TNA World Tag Team Champions of the World: Daniels & Kazarian

This is a great matchup. No doubt about it. Probably one of the best Samoa Joe matchups since Kurt Angle. It's a toss up but I can't see a title change here, unless it means we are going to have more matches with these two...

Winner and still TNA Television Champion: Samoa Joe

Um. Yeah that's all I can say about this match. At least it's not as random as every other X Division title match for the last few months. Just don't see much here at all.

Winner and still TNA X Division Champion: Rob Van Dam

Really this is the Aces & Eights vs. TNA matchup? Wow. Um. I guess this works because Angle got jumped by A&8s. We'll go with that...

Winner: Kurt Angle

This card is taking a turn for the weird. Yet I'm more interested in this match than Angle/Devon and RVD/Ryan combined. I mean it's Joesph Park. That's always fun!

Winner: Joseph Park

What the fuck! Why is Jesse wrestling? Why is this match happening? Even ODB and Eric Young are above his. It's ridiculous. I'm so sick of this guy already and it's only been a month.

Winners: ODB and Eric Young

Alright that's the complete card, definitely a better show than most of their small PPVs.

Next week in the full edition of the Entertainment Report, I will be reviewing this show and previewing WWE Survivor Series! All that, the return of Glee and much more.

So till then, keep everyone affected by Sandy in your hearts and prayers and thank you for reading.

Entertainment Report Issue #7 (CMA Awards, DWTS, Comic Book Men, Admirals Hockey and more)

"Oh when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof and your shoes get so hot you wish your tired feet were fireproof. Under the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby is where I'll be."-The Drifters

Honestly I couldn't think of a better way to start up this week's issue, welcome to the Entertainment Report.

A couple of things before we get started.

First of all, the feedback bag is again empty, but a huge thank you again to @Travlord for the retweet of Issue #6. If you want to comment on this or any back issue, shoot an email to entertainreport@gmail.com or tweet me @Reilly21106.

#2, after the NHL cancelled the Winter Classic, I went on a Twitter rant that got a couple of retweets. At this point, unless there is an announcement that the lockout us over, I am not covering it anymore.

#3, my sister and niece have put together a charity drop point for Hurricane Sandy relief. If you are interested in helping out, all the info is in the flyer to the right, even if you are outside of New York/New Jersey area.

#4, I was planning on writing a review of the telethon Coming Together. Honestly I would get way too emotional if I tried. So if you want my thoughts on the show and tragedy in general, goto my personal blog, Jersey Strong (even from afar).

Finally, this is not a political blog but I will quickly comment on the election. I am happy about Obama winning. That's all I'm going to say in here.

Now that that's all out of the way, let's get into this issue...

The reason I love country award shows is the music and the show itself. Normally the awards just kinda happen. This year most of the winners surprised me and it made for great moments. Let's see how my picks went...

Entertainment of the Year: Blake Shelton (my pick)
Female Vocalist of the Year: Miranda Lambert (my pick)
Male Vocalist of the Year: Blake Shelton (my pick: Jason Aldean)
Vocal Group of the Year: Little Big Town (my pick: Lady Antebellum)
Vocal Duo of the Year: Thompson Square (my pick)
New Artist of the Year: Hunter Hayes (my pick: Lee Brice)
Album of the Year: Eric Church-Chief (my pick: Lady Antebellum-Own The Night)
Song of the Year: Miranda Lambert-Over You (written by Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert) (my pick)
Single of the Year: Little Big Town-Pontoon (my pick: Eric Church-Springsteen)
Music Video of the Year: Toby Keith-Red Solo Cup (my pick)
Musical Event of the Year: Tim McGraw & Kenny Chesney-Feel Like A Rockstar

It turned into the Blake & Miranda show with special guests Eric Church and Little Big Town hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.

To be honest I was very surprised by the Little Big Town awards, and Eric Church won me over when he broke into Born To Run in the middle of Springsteen.

Also, no offense to other hosts, but can Brad and Carrie host every country awards show from here on out? From doing Gangnam Style is the opening monologue to doing a tribute to Andy Griffin to just being on point with one liners all night, they kept the show flowing at the right pace.

It was a great night overall.

With this being election week there was no results show this week. (Side note: I'm now convinced that if there wasn't an election, they might have skipped the elimination last week because of Sandy related effects. You can't just go two weeks without an elimination when there is a schedule to keep.)

The show itself kinda confused me to be honest. I really have no idea what dance fusions were so it makes it hard for me to rate the dances. So since there won't be an elimination, I'll project where I think everyone will land after this week, including the Swing Marathon, which I always enjoy.

#7 Kristie & Maks
#6 Emmitt & Cheryl
#5 Kelly & Val
#4 Gilles & Peta
#3 Melissa & Tony
#2 Apolo & Karina
#1 Shawn & Derek

Episode: Ming in Charge

After everything that gone on with Sandy this episode was interesting. Walt and Mike called in to see if Ming could run the store in case of emergency. (Ming is currently running the Stash while Mike and Walt deal with massive damage to their homes.) The fun part was the fact that he convinced Brian O'Halloran (Dante in Clerks and Clerks 2) to help him, since Bryan really does nothing. It actually made for some great behind the counter moments.

Ming did make some interesting purchases, the first issues of Iron Man and Daredevil and some classic Transformers action figures. When Walt did return, after Ming yelled at him, he made a deal to have a special one of a kind Presidential Monster exclusive to the Stash.

It was definitely a really good show and alot of fun to watch, especially with what is going on right now.

11/2/12-Lake Erie at Milwaukee

Apparently the Ads can't win two games in a row. Despite getting 43 shots on goal, and Michael Latta being an assist away from a Gordie Howe hat trick, they lost 2-1 to the Monsters. Luke Walker got the game winner shorthanded in the middle of the second period, and Calvin Pickard stood on his head and made 42 saves.

11/3/12-Milwaukee at Peoria

After several games of bad defensive efforts, the Ads played their best game of the season, a 3-0 win. Jeremy Smith snapped his personal five game losing streak with a 34 shutout. Mike Moore, Mark Van Guild and Chris Mueller scored the goals.

11/7/12-Milwaukee at Grand Rapids

After a back and forth morning affair in Grand Rapids, the Ads fell to the Griffins 4-2. Joakim Anderson scored the game winner on the power play halfway through the third. The Admirals can't seem to win two in a row this season.

This is a short week for the Admirals. Friday night they are home playing Chicago and I will be attending, so look for pictures in next week's report. Saturday night they head to Rockford to start a seven game road swing.

Wrestling Newsbytes

WWE Network to be pay station

During their conference call last week, WWE announced that, at some further date, WWE Network will be a 24 hour pay channel. I guess that's intriguing expect what's on the Network? Are they moving some PPVs over? Is NXT going there? These are questions they have yet to answer.

Nigel McGuinness named ROH new on air authority figure.

I like this idea. Hopefully he'll make ROH stand our like Cornette never could.

ROH sets the Final Battle main event.

Well since this really isn't a spoiler, Kevin Steen will be defending the title against El Genarico in a Ladder War. That sounds like it's going to be a legit war.

Quick Hits

• Rumor has it the Disney channel might do a sequel series to Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World, starring Ben Savage, where the star is Cory and Topanga's daughter. Why? I don't get it. BMW was a great show, it was a rare concept at the height of TGIF and came at the right time for our generation. Honestly I don't think lightning will strike twice. It feels like Disney is grasping at shows to replace Hannah Montana and Wizards.
•  Harrison Ford actually likes the idea of coming back for Star Wars Episode 7. Pardon me while I geek out a little.
• Continuing the trend of putting fresh shows in the post Super Bowl spot, CBS put Elementary after the game. I don't watch the show but good for the show.

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Like always check out my NFL Picks for Week 10. Had an alright week last week, hoping to improve this time around.

Next week's issue will be packed. Glee returns with a Grease themed episode that I'm looking forward to, DWTS has another double elimination and there will be predictions and thoughts on TNA's Turning Point. All that and much more.

So till then, keep everyone affected by Sandy in your hearts and prayers and see you next week.