Entertainment Report Special Edition: 2013 World Junior Championship

1/5/13
Gold Medal Game

USA 3-Sweden 1

Lead by Tournament MVP John Gibson Team USA beat the defending champion Team Sweden 3-1! Filip Sandberg scored a power play goal early in the second to give the Swedes a 1-0 lead. But Rocco Grimaldi scored two goals to close out the period to give the Americans a lead they would never lose. Vince Trochek would seal the game and the gold medal up with an empty netter.

Bronze Medal Game

Russia 6-Canada 5 (OT)

For the first time since 1998, Team Canada didn't medal at the World Juniors. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins lead the Canadians with a goal and three assists and Ryan Murphy tallying a goal and two assists, but it wasn't enough. Valeri Nichushkin scored 1:36 into overtime to ensure the home country at least medaled. Nail Yakapov lead the Russians with two goals.

1/3/13
Semifinals

USA 5-Canada 1

This game amount to a NFL team losing to a team in the regular season and then getting their revenge in the playoff game. After losing a heartbreaker in the prelims 2-1 to Team Canada, Team USA came back and dominated 5-1 to advance to the gold medal game! Jake McCabe and John Gaudreau led the way with two goal and an assist each and Jim Vesey scored the other goal and also got a helper. John Gibson though was the star again for his team as he made 33 saves to lead the Americans to victory.

Sweden 3-Russia 2 (SO)

1/2/13
Quarterfinals

USA 7-Czech Republic 0

So much for a slumping Team USA who can't score. Led by a John Gaudreau hat trick and a 31 save shutout performance by John Gibson, Team USA destroyed Team Czech Republic 7-0. Riley Barber scored two goals and Jacob Trouba and Seth Jones tallied four assists each. The domination propelled them to a rematch with Team Canada tomorrow.

Russia 4-Switzerland 3 (SO)

12/31/12

Czech Republic 4-Switzerland 3 (OT)
USA 9-Slovakia 3

After a dominating full out effort Team USA routed Team Slovakia 9-3 to advance to the Quarterfinals. John Gaudreau and Vince Trochek lead the way with two goals and an assist each. Alex Galchenyuk and Jake McCabe also added a goal and an assist and Jim Vesey assisted on three. On Wednesday Team USA will face off against Team Czech Republic.

Sweden 7-Finland 4
Canada 4-Russia 1

It was hyped all week as the matchup of the tournament and it lived up to it! Jonathan Huberdau scored a goal and an assist and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assisted on three, as Team Canada beat Team Russia. Malcolm Subban made 21 saves in the win. Team Canada finished first in Group B and received a bye to the semifinals.

12/30/12

Finland 5-Switzerland 4 (SO)
Canada 2-USA 1

After watching this game, I'm not sure if the Canadians won or the Americans beat themselves. After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ryan Strome gave Team Canada a 2-0 lead it became a defensive game. Malcolm Subban (36 saves) and John Gibson (30 saves) put on amazing effort for their teams throughout. The real story of the game came late in the third. After Jacob Trouba made it a 2-1 game, Team USA got sloppy and started taking stupid penalties. Despite Team Canada not scoring on two 5-3s, and despite an amazing last ditch effort l, Team Canada held on to win. Now 3-0 they are heading into a blockbuster matchup against Russia tomorrow and Team USA will play Slovakia to try to stay alive in the tournament.

Czech Republic 4-Latvia 2
Slovakia 2-Germany 1 (OT)

12/29/12
Sweden 5-Latvia 1
Russia 7-Germany 0

12/28/12

Czech Republic 3-Finland 1
Canada 5-Slovakia 3

Team Canada keeps rolling but not till after a bit of a fight. After two goals by Marko Dano, Team Slovakia took a 3-1 lead halfway through the 2nd period. That led to Team Canada scoring five unanswered to a 6-3 win, to go to 2-0 in the tournament. Ryan Strome led the way with two goals and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins got a goal and an assist. Goalie Malcolm Subban made 25 saves in the victory. Next up is Team USA on Sunday.

Sweden 3-Switzerland 2 (SO)
Russia 2-USA 1

In what turned out to be a fantastic game, Team Russia beat Team USA on a third period goal by Vladimir Tkachyov. The Russians took an early lead on an Albert Yarullin goal in the first but the Americans tied it up in the second with a power play goal by Jacob Trouba. It was a fantastic game as Team Russia improved to 2-0 (1 regulation win, 1 overtime win) and Team USA drop to 1-1. The US must now regroup as they will face the Canadians on Sunday.

12/27/12

Switzerland 7-Latvia 2
USA-8-Germany 0

Team Germany must looked at the beginning of their tournament schedule and prayed for mercy. They didn't get any. After a 9-3 beating by Team Canada yesterday, Team USA shutout them out 8-0. Goalies John Gibson (19 saves) and Jon Gillies (7 saves) shared the shoutout. Eight different players scored goals, lead by Riley Barber and Alex Galchenyuk with one goal and two assists each.

12/26/12

Finland 5-Latvia 1
Canada 9-Germany 3

Now that's how you start a run in the tournament. Team Canada hit a gold mine in an impressive 9-3 win over Team Germany. Leading Team Canada Mark Schiefele scored two goals and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tallied a goal and four assists. Ryan Strome and Jonathan Huberdeau also tallied a goal and two assists each as well. Leonhard Pfoderi led Team Germany with a goal and an assist. Canadian goalie Malcolm Subban made 25 saves in the win.

Sweden 4-Czech Republic 1
Russia 3-Slovakia 2 (OT)

12/22/12
Pre-Competition Games

Finland 5-USA 1

Team Finland came to play in this game. After holding a 1-0 lead on a goal by Robert Leino, they broke the game wide open in the third with four goals. Markus Granlund was credited with the game winner. Aleksander Barkov tallied a goal and two assists and Artturi Lehkonen & Teuvo Teravainen also got a goal and an assist each. Blake Pietil got the only goal for Team USA.

Canada 2-Sweden 1 (SO)

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins won the game for Team Canada in a shootout. This game got deadlocked after a 1st period goal by Team Sweden's Alexander Wennberg and a 2nd period goal by Team Canada's Jonathan Drauin.

12/20/12
Pre-Competition Games

Finland 3-Canada 2

In the first pre-competition matchup on the tournament, Finland pulled off a victory over Canada. Finland took a lead in the first period with a Markus Granlund goal. Team Canada fired by with two goals by Griffin Reinhart and Mark Schiefele in 34 seconds early in the first but couldn't hold the lead as Ville Jarvelanien tied the game up just about half way through the period. Miro Aaltonen gave Team Finland the lead 7:18 into the third and they hung on for the win.

USA 3-Sweden 2 (OT)

If this is what the preliminary games are going to be like, I can't wait for this tournament to get underway. Early in the first Team Sweden and Team USA traded goals, Emil Molin and Connor Murphy respectively. Ryan Hartman gave Team USA a 2-1 lead less than four minutes into the 2nd but with 36 seconds left in the period Rickard Rakell scored to tie the game up. After a goalie duel in the 3rd, the game went to overtime. Shayne Gostisbehere scored 1:36 into the overtime from the point off a faceoff win by Sean Kuraly to win the game for Team 3-2!

Entertainment Report Issue #14 (NFL Wild Card Weekend, Admirals, Wave and more)

After a busy and crazy year, welcome to the first edition of the Entertainment Report of 2013. Happy New Year!

Hey everyone and thank you for reading and all the support. As you can tell this week, I am starting up a new design for the Report. This will make things easier to follow and read.

Also a quick announcement. In our attempt to get more content on a weekly basis, next week our sponsor Puzzled and Polished's Mandy (@Mama_Mandabear) will be adding a new wrestling related piece so look I hope you look forward to that, I know I am. This will tie in with the charity organization and it's big opening this week.

This is a pretty light, kinda sports heavy, issue. Despite the two weeks between issues, it has been low on news. I hope you do like what you read and spread the word so when things pick back up soon, it will grow. Let's make 2013 a big year!

First of all, thank you to everyone who read the year end special on Monday, it quickly became the most issue since starting the Report. It was amazing to see. Big thanks to the @EastCoastCast and @BrookeTess for retweeting the issue.

Alright let's get into this issue...

After doing picks outside of the Report all season (a 11-5 Week 17 closed out the season), the playoffs will be covered weekly here. I would like to introduce to the staff Joe (@RADickey043) who will be helping with picking through the Super Bowl.

I'll be honest by now I was hoping to be starting 2013 with some actual news. Unfortunately not much has really changed in the two weeks. The only real news is that Bettman has set a hard date. If there is no deal set by 1/14, it's over. I'm really hoping news breaks before them. There are meetings going on as this Report posts. If there's a deal made between now and next week, there will be a special bonus edition of the Report.

12/21/12-Rockford at Milwaukee

After the game quickly became a 1-1 deadlock in finish half and the first period, on goals by Jani Lajunen (Ads) and Brandon Bollig (Icehogs), it became a goal duel. Jeremy Smith (Ads) made 34 saves and Carter Hutton (Hogs) made 36 saves. Milwaukee's Taylor Beck scored the game winner for the Ads less than halfway into the 3rd, to lead his team to a 2-1 win.

12/27/12-Peoria at Milwaukee

What a great game! Adam Crack ell scored late in the first to give the Rivermen a 1-0 lead and in the second Chris Mueller tied up the game. After a goalie duel between Jeremy Smith (32 saves) and Peoria's Jake Allen (20 saves), Ryan Ellis scored with 3:38 to go to give Milwaukee a thrilling 2-1 victory.

12/28/12-Peoria at Milwaukee

Led by two goals by Austin Watson and Michael Latta's three assists, the Ads beat the Rivermen in back to back nights, 4-1. Ryan Ellis added a goal and Kevin Henderson also tallied a goal and an assist.

12/29/12-Milwaukee at Rockford

Led by their captain Martin St. Pierre's goal and assist, the Icehogs beat the Ads 4-1. Chris Mueller got the lone goal for Milwaukee.

For the next week, the Admirals get to stay home to start up 2013. Tomorrow night the Chicago Wolves came in. Then on Saturday night the Oklahoma City Barons are on deck, followed by a Sunday afternoon game is the Grand Rapids Griffins.

The day after Christmas, the Milwaukee Wave began a long 2-game road trip to the east coast. I say long because of the snow storm that the midwest and east coast both saw last week. First visiting the Syracuse Silver Knights. A team that has tried to adapt to Milwaukee's patient style of play and are becoming more familiar with as each training session and game passes. A tight affair saw the Wave's Marcio Leite find the net with 1:56 remaining to send the wave to Rochester with a 12-11 victory.

The next night in Rochester, another tight match ensued. Wave rookie and team leader in goals and points Luan Oliviera, finished the night off with his first hat-trick of the season while Doug Miller finished with one of his own for Rochester. Rochester needed just one goal to tie but it would not be as the Wave squeak out of Rochester with a 14-12 victory.

The annual new years eve day game has been a tradition in Milwaukee for the past 20 years. Having lost the past two years, the team knew it was not an option. This was a must win game, and they came to to play. The visiting team the Wichita Wings was coming off 3 straight wins at home and were also looking for a win. Tenzin Rampa started the scoring off for Milwaukee followed by a Luan Oliviera finish just before halftime. The Wings tied it up 6-6 until Jonathan Greenfield hit a shot from almost midfield that just beat the keeper Sanaldo. Israel Seesay finished the game off when Wichita pulled Sanaldo in favor of the 6th Attacker. Final score read Wave 12 Wings 6.

Next game is Saturday January 5th vs The Syracuse Silver Knights 6pm kickoff

• John Cena, Randy Orton and Sheamus are the first people to enter this year's Royal Rumble.
• Sin Cara had knee surgery and will be out a undefined amount of time.

• Gangham Style became the first YouTube video to break the 1 billion views plateau late last week. It's truly the song that will never go away.
• The day after the NFL season ended, seven coaches and three general managers were fired. This included Chicago releasing Lovie Smith and Philadelphia relieving Andy Reid of his duties.

Alright that's it for the week. Don't forget to jump over and read full results of the 2013 World Juniors in Ufa, Russia. It includes full recaps of all Team USA and Team Canada games.

Next week we will continue to cover the NFL playoffs and countdown to the possible doom of the NHL season.

As always, if you want to contact us, drop an email to entertainreport@gmail.com, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, Blake @Reilly21106, Scotty @ScottFellows23 and Joe @RADickey043.

Thank you again for reading and have a great week!

Entertainment Report-Year End Special Edition (12/31/12)

Welcome to a very special year end edition of the Entertainment Report. First I'd like to thank everyone for reading since the beginning at the end of September. It has been a fun ride and I can't wait till 2013. Today I want to take you on a ride through various highlights and low-lights of the year that was 2012 and also look ahead to 2013. Let's get started...

For the month of December, I have been holding year end polls on our Facebook page. Thanks to Twitter, the voting went better than expected.

Throughout the month various celebrities (@NatbyNature, @BrookeTess), podcasts (@ftwpodcast, @gleefulpodcast, @eastcoastcast) and fans of various bands and artists have retweeted, liked and shared our page and voting numbers on some categories were higher than I even thought.

While the polls are closed, I will leave the ballots up to show the legitimacy of the results.

So let's go into the final results...

What a crazy, emotional year. Honestly it's rough to really look past all the negative in 2012. Outside of the President Obama reelection, the year was filled with sadness, murder and destruction.

This year, no one was safe from crazy gunmen.  Whether it was going to the movies, going to church or even sending your kids to school, everything was ruined for all if us. With all the major shootings, it was hard to really list them individually. Honestly it's hard to say much else that hasn't already been said. From Sandy Hook to Aurora, Colorado to the local Sikh Temple and every soul lost in between, my thoughts and prayers are out there and these tragedies should never be forgotten.

But to me, the visual of the Seaside Boardwalk destroyed won't ever leave my mind as the moment of the year. Hurricane Sandy changed everything up and down the Eastern seaboard. Death, destruction, waves, floods, power outages and the horrific outcome. The biggest storm in over 100 years destroyed buildings, attractions, washed away homes but the memories will never leave our hearts.

As a wrestling fan this has been an up and down year. Some new stars were made, there was a year long historic title reign and there were also some just bad stuff. So that being said, let's go through the awards...

Continuing the trend of looking back at 2012, with help from my wife @mama_mandabear, I present with the entertainment awards....

Looking ahead to 2013, the Report will continue to cover the Milwaukee Admirals and Milwaukee Wave through the playoffs. This will also include full coverage of the AHL All Star Classic and the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs.

If there is indeed a NHL season, look for coverage of the New Jersey Devils and the full 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. If there is no season, well there will be coverage of that too. At last check there had to be a deal by 1/14 or the season will be lost.

Finally, starting in the next issue, there will be full coverage and picks for the NFL Playoffs, all the way to the Super Bowl.

Outside of sports, in addition to Glee and Comic Book Men, there will be reviews of Celebrity Apprentice.

Finally there will be coverage all WWE, TNA and ROH PPVs throughout the year. Also there will be full coverage of a very busy Wresltemania weekend in the New York area.

At this point I'd like to thank some people for the help with the run if the Report.

First of all, thanks to my wife Mandy for putting up with me throughout the last four months.

Thanks to Travis Bryant, @travlord, and the @EastCoastCast for all the re-tweets and love for the Report since the beginning.

Thank you to all the people who have currently liked the Facebook page, please continue to spread the word.

Finally thank you to all the weekly readers. Without you there would be no Report and this wouldn't be as much fun.

That's it. Thank you for taking this ride down 2012 with me. This coming Wednesday will be the first weekly issue of 2013 so I hope to see you all there then. Till then, Happy New Year, and I hope you continue to spread the world.

NFL Picks Week 17

Week 16 Results:8-8

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

Entertainment Report Issue #13 (Glee, WWE TLC, ROH Final Battle and more!)

With Christmas right around the corner, we are feeling the spirit here on this week's edition of the Entertainment Report.

The Entertainment Report would like to welcome our first sponsor, Puzzled and Polished. Puzzled and Polished is a charitable organization that sells homemade jewelry for Autism Speaks. It will start up officially in 2013, but jump over like the page and stay tuned for more information.

Before I get started, I can't ignore the tragedy of last Friday. As a human being my heart sank when the news broke on the shooting in Newton, CT. But as a parent of a four year old, I was left in a state of shock and anger. My prayers and thoughts have been with those families, the teachers, the police officers and everyone affected by this horrific incident.

Alright, now let's get into the announcements and feedback.

First off, this will be the final weekly issue of 2012. There will be no issue on Christmas week, and the way the holidays line up the next issue won't be up till 2013.

That being said the blog itself will not be dark. Starting tomorrow afternoon, I will be covering the entire World Juniors Championship tournament, starting with the prelim games. So between tomorrow and January 5th there will be a page bring constantly updated with a scoreboard and write ups of every Team USA and Team Canada games.

Now as has been talked about in the past few weeks, there will be a special year end edition being posted on the 31st. This will include articles, predictions  countdowns and the results of the year end awards. Come over and vote on our Facebook page. New categories went up this week and the polls will close on 12/29 at midnight.

Finally, while the email bag (entertainreport@gmail.com) and Twitter (@Reilly21106) have been quiet this week, we did get a huge plug and shout out this week. @TravLord mentioned the blog on this past week's @EastCoastCast. It definitely surprised me and was much appreciated.

That's it for announcements and plugs, so let's get into this week's issue...

This week's Glee was their third annual Christmas special I have to say, while I've never seen Love Actually, I really enjoyed the format of the show. It had four separate stories that got tied in together at the end.

First we started with Artie wishing he was never in the wheelchair and went into a fantasy. This turned into It's A Wonderful Life, with Rory as Artie's angel. It revealed that since Artie can walk, he never joined the Glee club, since he didn't join the club, it doesn't exist. The highlight for me was that Will and Terri were still together and the fact that Terri has convinced Will that a toy baby was real. The Quinn twist was shocking but also made sense since Artie did encourage her to keep going after her accident. I also really enjoyed Artie's performance of Feliz Navidad, it was so much fun.

We then jumped to New York to find that Burt came and surprised Kurt with a tree and wanting to spend Christmas together as a family. He also surprised Kurt with Blaine which led to a romantic on ice rendition of White Christmas. I really hope this leads to a Klaine reunion. One note, Glee why must Burt always have to have a health problem? First a heart attack and now cancer, seriously he's TV's perfect dad, don't kill him off!!

Now we get to the Puckerman family reunion. While I didn't quite understand how you can get from Lima to Los Angeles and back on a bike with a side car at the blink of an eye, I really enjoyed Noah & Jake performing Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah, just because it was so random. I did really like bringing their moms together over the hatred of their dad. I am also excited that Puck is coming back to Ohio for the rest of the year.

Moving onto the Sam/Brittany storyline. First a rant, I am so sick of the Mayan Apocalypse crap in general. While I'm glad they pretty much made fun of it here, I'm still so done. Just get over it, the works isn't going to end on the 21st. I do like Sam & Brittany in a cute way, and I thought Jingle Bell Rock was goofy and fun.

Finally we get to Marley, her mom and Sue. I really love Marley's voice and her rendition of The First Noel was so beautiful. Now as much as I've complained about the eating disorder story, I like how they pretty much wrapped it up here. Plus I love how Christmas always brings the best out of Sue. I didn't expect her and Becky to do so much but it was so sweet.

Last but not least we get the big group finale, a fantastic rendition of Have Yourself A Merry Christmas. A great way to go out.

This capped off an awesome first half of season four. Next new episode isn't until the middle of January but I can't wait!

Results

• Pre Show Match: Naomi won the Santa's Helper Battle Royal which included Tamina, Alicia Fox, Aksana, Cameron, Natalya, Kaitlyn and Layla to become #1 Contender of the WWE Divas Championship
• Team Rhodes Scolars (Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow) defeated Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara in a tables match when Rhodes pushed Sin Cara through two tables
• Antonio Cesaro pinned R-Truth to retain the WWE United States Championship
• Kofi Kingston pinned Wade Barrett to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship
• The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane) and Ryback in a TLC match after Reigns pinned Bryan
• Eve pinned Naomi to retain the WWE Divas Championship
• Big Show pinned Sheamus to retain the World Heavyweight Championship in a chairs match
• Alberto Del Rio, The Miz and The Brooklyn Brawler defeated 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal) after Brawler summited Mahal
• Dolph Ziggler defeated John Cena in a ladder match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank briefcase after AJ shoves Cena off the ladder

Thoughts:

First of all, I really want to see the TLC match, it looks like it was a war. I'm happy The Shield won because the WWE should really be concentrating on the future in 2013.

That couldn't be more evident when Ziggler beat Cena in the ladder match after AJ helped him. This is huge. Ziggler deserves to be champion so I'm glad they didn't take the case off him.

Big Show retained after using a massive chair to lead to the pin. This works especially if the rumors of Show/Ryback are true.

As for the rest of the show, Cesaro retained to no surprise and Kingston retained and I'm glad I was wrong. I am looking forward to Hell No vs. Rhodes Scholars II coming soon.

Did Del Rio actually turn face against 3MB to tag with Miz and the Brooklyn Brawler? Yes that actually happened. Plus Naomi surprisingly won the battle royal and ended up losing to Eve. Totally random.

Now that this show is over, and the new year is upon us, we are approaching Wrestlemania season. Woot!!

Results

• Roderick Strong pinned Michael Elgin
• Jay Lethal pinned Rhino
• R.D. Evans pinned Prince Nana
• Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Hass) defeated Rhett Titus and BJ Whitmer in a New York City Street Fight after Hass pinned Whitmer
• Mike Bennett pinned Jerry Lynn
• The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish after the ref stopped the match
• Matt Hardy pinned Adam Cole
• The Briscoes defeated Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman & S.C.U.M. (Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs) to win the ROH Tag Team Championship after Mark Briscoe pinned Corino
• Kevin Steen defeated El Generico in a Ladder War to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Championship

Tomorrow I will be watching the replay (courtesy of a code I won from ProWrestling.Net) so I will be writing a Wrestling Afteraction, so I will address my thoughts in there.

Superstar of the Year: John Cena
Diva of the Year: AJ
Match of the Year: Wrestlemania XXVIII: Undertaker vs. Triple H
Newcomer of the Year: Ryback
Tell Me I Did Not Just See That (Most Shocking): Kofi Kingston walked on his hands to avoid Royal Rumble elimination
LOL Moment of the Year: The Rock's promo in John Cena in Boston
Kiss of the Year: John Cena & AJ
Hashtag of the Year: #FeedMeMore

12/14/12-Rockford at Milwaukee

The Ads blew yet another lead but this time at least won the game. After quickly being down 1-0, Gabriel Bourque scored two goals and Michael Latta added on and it was 3-1 in the 2nd. They couldn't hold the lead, and the Icehogs' Martin St. Pierre tied the game early in the third. Kevin Henderson, though, scored 1:45 into the overtime period and the Admirals won.

12/15/12-Milwaukee at Peoria

After a goalie duel between Magnus Hellberg and Mike McKenna through the first two periods of the game, Michael Latta scored 4:04 into the 3rd. The Ads though couldn't score again or hold onto the lead. The Rivermen scored three goals in 3:36 and they won the game 3-1.

12/16/12-Hamilton at Milwaukee

In a wild game between the Bulldogs and the Ads, Mark Van Guilder and Taylor Beck both tallied a goal and two assists to lead Milwaukee to a 4-3 victory.

12/19/12-Rockford at Milwaukee

Magnus Hellberg did not have a good night. After letting up three goals in the first period, including a Jeremy Morin shot from center ice. The Ads couldn't come back and lost the game 3-1 to the Icehogs.

Tomorrow night the Rockford Icehogs stay in town for the Ads last game before Christmas. Next Thursday and Friday night, the Peoria Rivermen come to town to play back to back games at the BMO Bradley Center and then the Ads finish off 2012 in Rockford the following night.

Quick Hits

• As a ratings guy, I'm intrigued by the announcement that Nielsen will include Twitter TV numbers. It might actually improve the actual legitimacy of the ratings.

Well that's it for the final official Entertainment Report if 2012.

Like always, check out my NFL Week 16 picks, especially after my rough Week 15 picks. Tomorrow look for the start of the World Juniors coverage and a new Wrestling Afteraction covering Final Battle. Also don't forget to check out the Year End Special on the morning of December 31st.

In two weeks the Report will return to the normal weekly format covering the NFL Wild Card Weekend, how the Admirals & Wave finished 2012 and much more.

Now as always you shoot an email over to entertainreport@gmail.com, like us on facebook, follow me @Reilly21106 and Scott (who took the week off for Finals) @ScottFellows23 on Twitter. Please continue to vote in the year end polls. Thank you for reading and everyone have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year!

NFL Picks Week 16

Week 15 Results:7-8

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

Entertainment Report Issue #12 (Glee, WWE, TNA, ROH, ACAs, Scotty McCreery and more...)

As the month of December slowly ticks away and tonight the country will salute the hurricane victims, welcome to this week's Entertainment Report. Before we get into a very jam packed issue, there's been alot of love going to us, especially on Twitter.

First off the Top 10 Podcasts of 2012 became the first entry to surpass 200 views since starting the Report. Thank you so much to everyone who read it. On Twitter this week I have to thank @MJCupach, @bigbrothrgossip, @ashes2ashes13, @travlord, @eastcoastcast, @BBGossip and @apartofhim for a the retweets and responds this week. While our Facebook page hasn't taken off yet, we are alive on Twitter and it's exciting to see.

That being said let's get into this week's issue...

I'm going to be honest, this issue went up early for one reason, I wanted to make sure it was up before the concert started so I could sit back and enjoy it. I hope everyone reading this does the same. It's going to be on amazing night.

This was an interesting show that really felt like two separate shows in one. It also felt like one show was based in reality while the other in fantasy world.

We start at McKinley, where we picked up right where we left off with Marley passing out. This lead to New Directions being disqualified and The Warblers winning Sectionals. This lead to what was one of the most real moments in the show, the reminder that they are indeed a high school club and their season was over. Sue in turn took over the choir room and the auditorium leaving ND without a homebase. The group quickly fell apart and scattered into different sports and groups. Brittany and Sam though found each other, singing Something Stupid, and the get together. Honestly I really liked everything about this. It's a reminder that you're not always going to win and yes in high school there are actual seasons and New Directions has been lucky to be able to stay running as long as they did because they kept winning.

Meanwhile in New York, Rachel got an invite to the Winter Showcase, something very rare for a freshman. Fine, I'll go with that. Besides that led to the awesome dance off between Cassandra and Rachel to All That Jazz. During all this Kurt trying to get a second audition with Carmen Tibideaux to get into NYADA but was shot down, which left him distressed. Then we get to the Winter Showcase and Rachel announced she was going to just sing for them and performed Being Good Isn't Good Enough and O Holy Night. Did she sound amazing? Yes of course she did. Did she deserve to win? Based on the story they were telling, especially in this episode, no she didn't. But this is the Glee fantasy world where Rachel can do no wrong, so of course she won. I'm sorry I can't go with that. It's not realistic and makes zero sense. She is a freshman in a tough performing arts school and she wins in her first competition? It actually makes me angry. Despite that, I am able to accept that Kurt got into NYADA after Carmen pulled him on stage by surprise and he performed Being Alive. It makes story sense and was his second chance! Plus I really enjoyed the performance, it's rare Kurt just sings his heart out.

This led to, for some reason, Rachel calling Finn to encourage him that the Glee Club wasn't dead. That whole phone call didn't make much sense, and almost looked like she was bragging, but it did inspire Finn to send out an email to reunite at a location that Marley found. This brought everyone back together for a snowglobey performance of Don't Dream It's Over.

Seriously they should have done the spinoff with Rachel and Kurt because their storyline doesn't belong on this show. I just doesn't fit the show. This would have been a perfect episode if they just stuck to the McKinley storyline. It's almost like they want to prove they could do better than Smash.

Next week is the final Glee of 2012, the annual Christmas episode. I look forward to that one every year.

Results:

James Storm defeated Kaz
Rob Van Dam defeated Kenny King to retain the TNA X Division Championship
Chavo Guerrero & Hernamdez defeated Joey Ryan & Matt Morgan by DQ when Morgan yanked the ref out of the ring
Austin Aries defeated Bully Ray after Brooke and Hulk Hogan distracted Bully outside the ring
Tara defeated Mickie James to retain the TNA Knockouts Championship
Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Wes Brisco & Garrett Bischoff defeated Aces & Eights when Angle pinned masked man #2
Christopher Daniels defeated AJ Styles with the Styles Clash
Jeff Hardy defeated Bobby Roode to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Aces & Eights attacked both of them after the match

Quick Thoughts:

So really not much happened. No title changes, no real surprises, no turns, nothing. Going into the new year, I'm not even sure what to look forward to, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

It was a nice surprise to see Daniels beat AJ, that's about it for me. I really hope that leads to him getting a legit title shot against Jeff Hardy down the road.

Hoping things are better on Impact this week than on this show.

This PPV has always been an up and down show. This year the main event got changed because of CM Punk's injury, so this card feels very thrown together. Despite that it's a very good show.

Chairs Match

Alright here ya go. This is how I see this ending. Sheamus is going to beat the hell out of Show with chairs and after White Noise pin him.

Winner and New World Heavyweight Champion: Sheamus

Then as Sheamus is celebrating, Big Show will get up and hit the knockout punch and then Dolph Ziggler's music will hit and he will cash in MITB, hit the Zig Zag and...

Winner and New World Heavyweight Champion: Dolph Ziggler

This will lead to Dolph backstage bragging that he won the title and that means he doesn't have to fight Cena. Vince then tells him that the ladder is still in but for the World Heavyweight Championship.

Ladder Match

This match will be a war. The finish will come with Cena climbing the ladder and AJ coming out. AJ will get in the ring and Cena will be distracted, Dolph in turn will push the ladder and Cena will fall on the outside. Dolph will then climb the ladder and retain the title.

Winner and still World Heavyweight Champion: Dolph Ziggler

After the match AJ goes to check on Cena, helps him up but then slaps him. Then she turns around climbs into the ring and makes out with Dolph.

TLC Match

This match can only end by pinfall or submission. Honestly I don't expect Ryback to be pinned and hopefully they let Rollins & Ambrose do their thing. Shield has to win here, so Rollins will pin Bryan.

Winner: The Shield

Well this could go one of two ways. This could be Kofi's coming out party and he will beat Barrett or this could be Barrett's time to shine. That being said...

Winner and new Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett

Who asked for this rematch? What is the point?

Winner and still United States Champion: Antonio Cesaro

Tables Match

This might be one of the most random tables match ever. To be honest Rey/Sin Cara will never get a shot while Team Hell No are champs so...

Winners and New #1 Contenders for the World Tag Team Championship: Team Rhodes Scholars

Santa's Helper Battle Royal

There's only three people in this match that make sense to win and it's too early for AJ...

Winner and new #1 Contender for the WWE Divas Championship: Kaitlyn

I'll be honest, if I didn't have to work on Sunday afternoon for the first half of this show, I would totally consider ordering the IPPV. This has to be one the most stacked cards ROH has put together in a long time. It's a very solid lineup, with most matches have been setup for close to a year, and the main event is actually close to three years in the making. All things being said, let's get into the card...

ROH World Heavyweight Championship
Ladder War
Kevin Steen (c) vs. El Generico

I don't remember the last time there was a major match with a great rivalry setup and one of the guys doesn't even show up on TV. That's how this has been. Despite that, this is going to be unreal. These two have insane chemistry and are willing to tear each other apart. I think this is the time for a huge change...

Winner and New ROH World Heavyweight Champion: El Generico

ROH World Tag Team Championship
S.C.U.M. (Jimmy Jacobs and Steve Corino) (c) vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander
Stipulation: To win the titles, the tag champions must be pinned

Alright, personally I love the rules of the match. I think it's about time S.C.U.M. finally dropped the titles. The only thing is which team beats them. I'd love to say Coleman/Alexander will finally break through and win the belts, but I just can't...

Winner and New ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes

American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) vs. Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish

This is just exciting. The Wolves are back! Davey & Kyle have been feuding all year, especially since Best in the World, but have yet to actually have a match. I'm convinced Fish was added just to make this a tag match. Is there any doubt?

Winners: American Wolves

Michael Elgin vs. Roderick Strong

This is finally the explosion of the House of Truth. I'm not sure how Truth Martini is going to interfere but honestly I don't think it will matter...

Winner: Michael Elgin

Charlie Hass & Shelton Benjamin vs. Rhett Titus & BJ Whitmer
NYC Street Fight

I feel bad for Rhett Titus. Ever since Kenny King left he's been stuck I this feud, when he deserved to get a push, at least to the TV title. As for this match, it should be good.

Winners: Rhett Titus & BJ Whitmer

Adam Cole vs. Matt Hardy

I still don't fully get what the point if this match is, but on paper it should be fun. I don't see any way the result isn't...

Winner: Adam Cole

Jay Lethal vs. Rhino

This is simple, Lethal feels this match is below him and wants a title shot. That being said, I can see him losing his cool.

Winner: Rhino by DQ

Prince Nana vs. R.D. Evans

I'm not sure why this match needs to happen but at least it could be quick and painless...

Winner: Prince Nana

Jerry Lynn vs. Mike Bennett

This is Lynn's last match in ROH before his retirement in March. At least they have him a good opponent. It's a shame Jerry is retiring but this will give him a chance to leave ROH with class.

Winner: Jerry Lynn

I actually forgot about this show till the weekend so I never got to make predications. That being said, I never expected the show to go the way it did.

The man of the night was by far Luke Bryan who took home nine awards, including Artist, Album, Single & Music Video of the year. Carrie Underwood (Female Artist & Single by a Vocal Collaboration with Brad Paisley), Lady Antebellum (Duo/Group Artist and Single), Miranda Lambert (Single and Music Video by a Female) and Hunter Hayes (Single and Music Video by a New Artist) won two awards each. Rounding out the award were Jake Owen (Breakthrough Artist), Lauren Alania (New Artist), Brantley Gilbert (Single by a Breakthrough Artist), Little Big Town (Music Video by a Duo/Group), Eric Church (Song of the Year) and Jason Aldean (Touring Artist).

On Monday WWE will have the annual Slammy Awards. Since there are no official nominations yet, I'm going to guess the winners based on how I think it will go.

Superstar of the Year: CM Punk
Breakout Star of the Year: Ryback
Trending Now Award: #Raw
Comeback of the Year: Jerry "The King" Lawler
Kiss of the Year: John Cena & AJ
Tell Me I Did NOT Just See That: Kane and Daniel Bryan Hug It Out
LOL Moment of the Year: Kane and Daniel Bryan goto anger management
Match of the Year: Triple H vs Undertaker Wrestlemania XXVIII

12/7/12-Milwaukee at Rockford

You would think that if you have a two goal lead after two periods of play, you'd win. Not if you are the Admirals in 2012.

After being down 1-0 after 1, Michael Latta, Gabriel Bourque and Victor Bartley scored in the second period and the Ads went up 3-1. But in the 3rd they couldn't hold on to the lead. Nick Leddy, Ben Smith, Brandon Pirri and Martin St. Pierre all scored in the 3rd and the Icehogs took the game 4-2.

12/9/12-Milwaukee at Charlotte

In the first if two games vs. the Checkers in three days, the Ads won 5-2. Gabriel Bourque scored two goals and Michael Latta assisted on three. Magnus Hellberg continued his personal undefeated streak with 26 saves.

12/11/12-Milwaukee at Charlotte

The Ads just can't seem to get on a roll this season. Chris Mueller scored a rare power play goal early in the first then they just couldn't get any more offense going all night. Tim Wallace broke a 1-1 tie in the second and the Checkers held on to win 3-1.

This week is a busy one for the Ads. It starts with a three pack over the weekend, Friday night home against Rockford, Saturday night at Peoria and back home on Sunday afternoon against Hamilton. Then on Wednesday night, Rockford comes back to town.

For the second consecutive week one team started off the game on a 5-0 run. This time it was the Wave as they were able to solve the Rochester Lancers keeper with a three point strike from defender Josh Rife. Shortly there after a 2 pointer from veteran Marcello Fontana. Rochester were able to put themselves on the board when the teams leading goal scorer and the oldest player in the league at 43 Doug Miller finished one off on the powerplay as the wave had been sent to the box for too many men on the field. With minutes remaining Nick Perera hit a three point goal to put the wave up 8-2. Just 48 seconds later, Joe Hammes also finished from three point land. That brought the score to wave 11 Lancers 2. Goals from again Doug Miller and Brayton Knapp brought the lancers closer before Marcello Fontana, finished off his second goal of the evening to make the final score Wave 13 Lancers 6. Midway through the third, Rochesters Rey Martinez was issued a red card when he would not sit down for his time out in the penalty box. He also shared some unfriendly for kids language with the referee and official Rich Grady sent him for an early shower. Wave go to 3-2 and will face Chicago again Friday in Chicago.

Wrestling Newsbytes

Tribute to The Troops

WWE Tribute to The Troops airs on Wednesday night on USA in a two hour special and next Saturday on NBC in a one hour format. It's one of my personal favorite shows if the year.

Randy Orton Injured

It is being reported on various sites that Randy Orton injured his wrist during the Tribute to The Troops taping over the weekend.

Quick Hits

• This past week on Jay & Silent Bob Get Old, Kevin Smith announced that Hit Somebody, the hockey film that was meant to be his last before retirement, will now be a TV mini-series. I've been looking forward to this movie for over a year now so hopefully a station like AMC picks it up so I could see it first run.
• After the Hit Somebody news broke, Kevin took to Twitter and announced that Clerks III will be his final film, hoping to come out in 2014 around the 20th anniversary of Clerks. He then took to the podcast Hollywood Babble-On Supersized Annual #1 to explain the details. I'm still trying to process all this so I'm not sure how to feel about it yet.
• The NHL officially cancelled all 2012 games. Yeah that's all I got on that, I'm just so sick of this lockout at this point.
• In a surprising turn of events, Dave Hester of Storage Wars is suing A&E and Original Productions for wrongful termination. Yes Hester got fires by A&E! He accused them of committing fraud by staging storage lockers with interesting items to make for good TV. He is seeking $750,000 in damages, and now the show will be a little less fun without him.

Talk about a voice for Christmas music. It is almost impossible to not get lost in Scotty's voice. Someone his age should not be allowed to be this good. I mean he took classics like Jingle Bells and Holly Jolly Christmas and spun them to fit his voice. Normally I skip over slow songs, but when I hears Christmas in Heaven I was totally entranced. Simply fantastic.

Grade: A+
Favorite Song: Jingle Bells

This is the final album of their trilogy that came out the end of this year. As a continuation it's pretty good. It actually reminds me of a combo of Warning & American Idiot. If anything this album actually rolls smoother than the other two. To be honest it's harder to pick this album apart because it simply feels like a conclusion. Overall a good finish.

Grade: B
Favorite Song: Missing You

That's it for this issue. If you would like to read more insight, it has been a busy week in this blog. Check out my NFL Week 15 picks, my rant on the NHL Lockout, Falling Into The Podium Trap and the latest year end special, The Top Sports Moments of 2012.

Next week, there will a review of the Glee Christmas special, WWE TLC, ROH Final Battle and whatever other stories break this week. Also Scott will be attending the Wave/Soul game in Chicago on Friday night and I will be going to Sunday's Admirals/Bulldogs game with my son, so we will be getting pictures together from those games.

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