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TORONTO -- Linsane! Jeremy Lin made a tiebreaking 3-pointer with less than a second to play to cap his finishing flurry of six straight points, and the New York Knicks rallied to beat the Toronto Raptors 90-87 Tuesday night, extending their winning streak to six games. The NBA's first American-Taiwanese player, Lin had 27 points and a career-high 11 assists in his first game since being named Eastern Conference player of the week. The season-high crowd of 20,092 roared as Lin drained a pull-up jumper from the top with half a second to play, giving the Knicks their first lead...

Not every athlete is caught up in the Linsanity. Unbeaten boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has posted a swipe at the New York Knicks' point guard sensation on Twitter. Mayweather posted on Monday: "Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he's Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise." Lin has led the Knicks to five straight victories, including a 38-point game against the Lakers. Later, Mayweather took to Twitter to defend his comment. "Its OK for ESPN to give their opinion but I say something and everyone questions...

A 50-year-old woman accused of dousing her dad with iced tea on Super Bowl Sunday was arrested, even though she said the chilled beverage soaking was an act of "self defense," a recently released report states. The apparent tossed tea tumult began brewing Feb. 5 as a 79-year-old man told Port St. Lucie police he argued with his daughter, Jacqueline Collins, the Port St. Lucie police report states. He said the disagreement at his Southeast Victory Avenue home in Port St. Lucie was over food. After quarreling briefly, the man sat on the couch to watch the Super Bowl, a...

Hey guys, Are there any sites (Virus-free) that I can stream tonight's Knicks v. Raptors game? Time Warner Cable isn't showing any NBA games in my area... - Blackshark

Alex Wade had always wanted to surf off Hawaii's north shore. But then he saw the size of the breaks at the Banzai Pipeline.Dave Rastovich, 33, is a professional surfer for the Billabong team. As happens every December, "Rasta" is at Billabong's house on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He's there to bag some serious water time at the many breaks along what is known as "the seven-mile miracle", a series of world-class waves stretching from the hippie town of Haleiwa on the south-west of the north shore to Sunset Beach towards the north-eastern point. Rasta...

If chivalry, as the common saying goes, is dead, someone forgot to tell Shane Adams—the host of History's new original reality series, Full Metal Jousting, which aims to resurrect the medieval and renaissance competition as a legitimate sport over 500 years after its heyday. Which isn't to say that things don't get gritty—"Do not stick out your tongue. You will bite it off," Adams advises the series' would-be knights in last night's premiere episode. Full Metal Jousting, which premiered last night, takes 16 amateur competitors and trains them in competitive full-contact jousting, with a $100,000 prize to be awarded to...

Jeremy Lin may have come out of Friday night's game against the Lakers a star with a career-high 38 points, seven assists and four rebounds. But he's not letting the "Linsanity" overcome the country without giving proper credit to God. "I just give all the praise to God," Lin said after the game. Point guard for the New York Knicks, Lin has become a household name overnight. He's being recognized for not only saving the season, but for being the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or of Taiwanese descent and for his outspoken Christianity.

I think the announcers for this years Pebble Beach Pro-Am are angling to be Tigers next love interest.

Here's video of all 13 field goals by New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin on his way to a career-high 38 points against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night at Madison Square Garden. Lin scored in every conceivable manner, knocking down 3-pointers, hitting pull-up jumpers, taking defenders off the dribble, hitting leaners and hitting a nifty spinning lay-up, among other feats of offensive genius. The Knicks defeated the Lakers, 92-85, and Lin's 38 points were a game-high, topping Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. Lin finished 13-for-23 from the field and added 7 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals in 39...

Weekly FR Boating Thread ~ Vol. 3 ~ Feb. 10, 2012 ~ Boat Transportation Launching ~ Weekly FR Boating Thread ~ Vol. 1 ~ Jan. 27, 2012 Weekly FR Boating Thread ~ Vol. 2 ~ Feb 3, 2012 ~ “Off Season”Last week’s thread had 26 posts, including the source for this week’s thread – boat transportation. I have helped clients ship vessels of all sizes and types all over North America and overseas. Except for two small scratches, every shipping project was successful, albeit harrowing on occasion. To help ensure your boat shipping efforts are successful, I will provide boat...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- As grand marshals, Jane Lynch and Kate Upton, co-stars from the new The Three Stooges movie, will deliver the four most famous words in motorsports: "Drivers, start your engines." Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sasso -- starring as Larry, Moe and Curly -- will start the action by delivering the green flag at the Daytona 500 on Feb. 26. "We look forward to Jane and Kate's participation in the pre-race ceremonies, adding to the star power of NASCAR's biggest and richest race of the year," Daytona International Speedway president Joie Chitwood III said. "Also, the...

Everybody loves an underdog. And thanks to leading the New York Knicks to back-to-back wins for the first time in a month, Jeremy Lin has given his previously hopeless franchise a reinvigorated fanbase.WATCH VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF JEREMY LINBut there is more to Jeremy Lin than just being an undrafted Asian-American point guard out of Harvard. He is also a devout Christian that has previously declared that he plays for the glory of God and someday hopes to be a pastor.And based on his post-game interview last night, like Tim Tebow, Lin is not afraid to bring his faith to...

"The Carolina defense made so many plays in the middle portion of the game, but the Heels' inability to generate consistent offense down the stretch opened the door for the late-game silliness and, in the end, converted Zeller from the game's most valuable player to the game's goat. The ability to stomp on the throat (or, since we're talking boxing, land the knockout blow) is a key trait in basketball, and UNC did not possess it last night. Rivers and Duke deserve credit for their incredible late-game heroics, but it was North Carolina's fault for letting them off the ropes...

The Italian coach's resignation came after he met with FA chairman David Bernstein to discuss the ruling body's decision to remove the England captaincy from defender John Terry until he stands trial in July for racially abusing an opponent. "In a meeting for over an hour, Fabio's resignation was accepted and he will leave the post of England Manager with immediate effect," the FA said. Capello disagreed with the FA's decision to strip Terry of the captaincy and spoke out in an interview on Italian television on Sunday.

One of New York's Super Bowl winners has got some advice for Gisele Bundchen about how to be magnanimous in the face of defeat - as animosity in Boston following the Patriots' Super Bowl loss grew. New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs thinks the supermodel's retaliation to chants about her husband Tom Brady following the Boston Patriots defeat on Sunday was ill-advised. 'She just needs to continue to be cute and shut up,' Jacobs said as he celebrated his win at the MetLife Stadium rally for the Super Bowl champion Giants in New York today. Meanwhile many people in...

Knowshon Moreno was all but forgotten in Denver this year. He was first ineffective, then benched in favor of Willis McGahee, then, like everything else, eclipsed by the miracle of Tebow. His season ended in Week 10 with a knee injury. He knows how to get noticed on the highway, though. His strategy there is to drive 70 mph through a construction zone in a Bentley convertible with a license plate that reads "SAUCED." Works every time.

The Puppy Bowl, Animal Planet's furry fit of Super Bowl counterprogramming, returns for its eighth year of tail-wagging and terrier touchdowns on Sunday afternoon. It began as a joke in a network ideas meeting, like some stoner intern's dream: Dude, what if we, like, just put a camera on a bunch of puppies playing in a field?Genius!The Puppy Bowl has become a cuddly Yule Log for Animal Planet—and a highly rated one at that. Last year's edition, Puppy Bowl VII, drew more than 9.2 million viewers, with 1.7 million tuning in for the mid-afternoon premiere and drawing a 1.2 rating,...

Die-hard Patriots fan Maria Menounos was forced to host an entire broadcast of her show “Extra” in a bikini after losing a bet that her beloved team would beat the Giants in the Super Bowl this year.

Tom Brady's model wife Gisele was NOT happy with the Patriots wide receivers last night, and she wasn't afraid to show it. When she was walking out of her private box toward an elevator, Gisele let it all out. She said: “You [have] to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball. My husband cannot f------ throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.” Watch (via The Insider): CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO

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