Published on Jan. 17, 2016 | Updated on Jan. 18, 2016
The Panthers and Cardinals haven"t played each other since last season"s wild-cardround. Next for both is a playoff rematch, this time as the NFC"s top teams on championship weekend.
Carolinawill faceCarson Palmer, who was injured weeks before last year"s 27-16 Panthers win and finished fourth in Sporting News" Offensive Player of the Year voting for the 2015 season. His goal will be to out-duel the winner of that award, Cam Newton.
In the AFC, the Patriots will go on the road to face the Broncos. You know what that means: Brady vs. Manning, for the 17th timeand maybe the last chapter in arguably the greatest quarterback rivalry in NFL history.
NFL PLAYOFFS IN PHOTOS: AFC divisional round| NFC divisional round
Here"s all you need to know about NFL championship weekend and the road to Super Bowl 50.
WHEN IS THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME?
Cardinals (2)at Panthers (1)
Sunday, Jan. 24, 6:40 p.m. ET, FOX
Divisional-round results:Arizona beat Green Bay in a dramatic overtime thriller Saturday night. Carolina beat Seattle in convincing fashion Sunday.
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WHEN IS THE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME?
Patriots (2) atBroncos (1)
Sunday, Jan. 24, 3 p.m. ET, CBS
Divisional-round results: New England earned a comfortable win over Kansas City on Saturday. Denver got a scare from banged-up Pittsburgh, but the Broncos escaped the six-seeded Steelers in the fourth quarter.
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WHEN IS SUPER BOWL 50?
Sunday, Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. ET, CBS, Levi"s Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif.
CBS will broadcast Super Bowl 50, the first time they"ve done so since 2013 and following the set three-year cycle of Fox-NBC-CBS. CBS broadcast the first Super Bowl in 1967 the only time a Super Bowl was carried on two networks. NBC also carried the contest.
Macklemore White Privilege II - Social Justice Warrior & Black Lives Matter Propaganda Exposed!
Macklemores 2013 gay rights anthem Same Love didnt hit the heart of the LGBT community. Instead, it stabbed the hearts of a community that has been trying to work for decades to overcome discrimination. The LGBT community was thrown an exploitative, money-making insult by an act who probably never cared about the rights of the LGBT community.
In August of 2013, DeathandTaxes published an article out about why the song was so controversial and it had nothing to do with conservatives being angry.
In the wake of Macklemores win at the Video Music Awards, openly-gay New York City rapper Le1F took to Twitter to unleash a string of rather hefty accusations at the emcee, implying that Macklemore used his song Same Love to try and make money off of the same-s*x controversy.
As Grammy time came around in early 2014, the controversy continued. Gay Twitter lambasted Macklemore for his gay rights effort.
@macklemore is the @vanillaice of today. Any idiot with a producer, a pop song formula, and a hot topic like gay rights can go platinum.
Perspective (@333biz) January 27, 2014
Macklemore is the worst for his gay and black culture appropriation.
Tone Thugs (@toni_latigra) January 27, 2014
Same Love is one of the most condescending songs to ever hit the airwaves. We have a straight white boy telling the gay community how he thought he was gay, because he could draw, and that he couldnt be gay because he is good at little league.
Then, Macklemore did something unforgivable well, at least to older gay men. He used Madonna, a woman who fought for gay rights in the 1980s and 1990s when the LGBT community was treated less than kindly, in his performance of the song at the 2014 Grammy Awards. It is known as one of her worst performances to date and, unfortunately, made people think Madonna was also exploiting the gay community without understanding her history with the gay community.
Madonna survived, but thats hard to say about Macklemore, who has became a joke ever since he won his Grammy Awards that year. Many thought Kendrick Lamar deserved the Grammys instead. Macklemore has been accused of exploiting the Hip Hop community even before the 2014 Grammy Awards, which produced a massive backlash.
The LGBT community has been dealt with so many blows over the years. In 2013, they had to deal with Macklemore. [Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images]Macklemore has a new album coming out on February 26 called This Unruly Mess Ive Made. Perhaps, since his popularity has decreased, he has released a new song called White Privilege II, which hypocritically blames Miley Cyrus and Iggy Azalea for cultural appropriation. Macklemore thinks that bashing other artists will help his cause. He is wrong, especially since Miley Cyrus is a legitimate member of the LGBT community and has done something with her power and privilege.
Spencer Kornhaber of the Atlantic says while Macklemore bashing Miley Cyrus and others in his new song may mean well, but its also insufferable.
The fact that his lyrics are so basic, forgoing metaphor or ambiguity or impressionism, certainly accounts for a big part of his wide appeal. But it also accounts for why many other listeners (ahem) feel pandered to, exhausted by, and/or vaguely embarrassed by his songs.
Kornhaber adds the narrative that Macklemore is trying to convey is more like an op-ed that tells you what exactly to think. Instead, the songs narrative should require more interpretation to help it stick in our minds. In any case, Macklemore has been fried on Twitter and it not only by Miley Cyrus fans.
Macklemore has got to be the worst. This guy does so much pandering to stay relevant. Awful. Just go into politics with your fake activism.
Josh Caudill (@JoshuaCaudill85) January 22, 2016
Macklemore has yet to respond to the backlash against his song and Miley Cyrus has yet to respond to being part of the song. Based on Macklemores past, h**l probably say that people dont like the song because they are racist, not because its actually a terrible song.
The January movie doldrums hit Portland hard this week. Without any late-opening award contenders on the slate, multiplex audiences are left to choose between what look to be a middling young-adult alien invasion saga ("The Fifth Wave"), a warmed-over creepy-doll chiller ("The Boy"), and perhaps the most egregious stain yet on the career of Robert DeNiro ("Dirty Grandpa").
In a perfect world, Portland"s art house theaters would offer scintillating alternatives to this mediocrity, but that"s not quite the case.
The Chinese martial arts master Ip Man was, until a few years ago, best known to Westerners as the guy who taught Bruce Lee his stuff. These days, he"s become immortalized as a mythic hero in his own right, thanks to a series of cinematic portrayals, including Wong Kar-Wai"s elegiac, stunningly photographed 2013 movie "The Grandmaster." That, though, was but one of a rash of Ip Man films to emerge in the wake of 2008"s "Ip Man," which starred Hong Kong action hero Donnie Yen and took substantial liberties with Ip"s life story.
The movie was a box-office success, though, and Yen reprised the role in 2010"s "Ip Man 2" and now in "Ip Man 3." Like its predecessors, it"s a decent, relatively generic martial arts flick, with some added poignancy due to both the 52-year-old Yen"s encroaching retirement from action films and a subplot involving the terminal illness of Ip"s wife. Otherwise, it"s all about the fight scenes, and they"re entertaining enough, especially one against a villain played by none other than Mike Tyson. Genre fans won"t be disappointed, but "Ip Man 3" won"t have much crossover appeal. (Grade: B-, opens at Regal Fox Tower on Friday, Jan. 22)
The arrival of a new animated feature from distributors GKids is usually a good thing. The company has enabled international treasures including "Song of the Sea," "Ernest and Celestine," and "Tales of the Night" to reach American audiences over the last few years. Itslatest release is the Oscar-nominated Brazilian film "Boy and the World."While it"s definitely an example of adventurous, artistic animation, it doesn"t reach the heights of those other titles. Without using any intelligible dialogue, it tells the story of a young boy living in the impoverished countryside whose father moves to the city in search of work. The boy follows after him, and has a series of encounters that expose him to the woes of the modern world: urbanization, economic exploitation, environmental degradation, etc.
Director Al Abreu uses a unique visual style that combines childlike, almost stick-figure people with an increasingly frenzied decoupage to represent the overstimulated world he"s swallowed up in. It"s rather like a very talented grade-schooler"s refrigerator-door drawings come to expressive life. Unfortunately, the simplistic moral message of the movie and its insistence on remaining nonverbal make "Boy and the World" feel like something that would have been more tolerable as a 15-minute short than as an 80-minute feature. (Grade: C+, opens at Regal Fox Tower on Friday, Jan. 22)
In the years and decades following World War II, American veterans rarely spoke about the horrors they saw and endured, and American culture rarely delved into the darker side of the combat experience. A similar hesitance seems to have occurred in Israel following the triumph of the Six Day"s War in 1967, one thatthe documentary "Censored Voices" aims to belatedly overcome. In the wake of Israel"s surprising and unequivocal defeat of Egypt and Jordan, Israeli author and intellectual Amos Oz, whose first novel had been published just the year before, interviewed a number of Israeli soldiers.
Over 70% of those interviews were censored by the government at the time, but now they have been incorporated, along with fascinating archival footage, into this testament. The nationalist triumphalism of the day is barely evident as young men talk about the violence they committed and endured, including some instances of what would certainly be classified as war crimes. "Censored Voices" demonstrates that no matter how existential the threat, or how just the cause, war inevitably leaves scars on the victors as well as the vanquished. (Grade: B, opens at the Living Room Theaters on Friday, Jan. 22)
It"s also worth noting that the Northwest Film Center"s two ongoing series continue this weekend. The Reel Music programs on tap include a live musical accompaniment for the groundbreaking 1929 Soviet silent film "The Man with a Movie Camera" as well as documentaries on the 1980"s hard-rock band Twisted Sister, reggae pioneer Lee "Scratch" Perry, and bass legend Jaco Pastorius. Meanwhile, the Film Center"s Bollywood retrospective hits the 1970s with the genre-mashing, crowd-pleasing, cops-vs-bandits flick "Sholay." Check www.nwfilm.org for a full schedule.
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Kobe Bryant, 2016 NBA All-Star Game Voting - Should He Be In?
Get it done, Mitt! - Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Breaking down the division history of the game, and pointing out some uncomfortable truths.
I seem to harp on having a star player on the team a lot. And I recognize that can get pretty tiresome to some fans. Thank you for bearing with me as I publicly express my fears and feelings for our franchise. I also think the team needs a reliable go-to scorer, but the communism approach seems to be working well at times. One thing I haven"t been talking much about has been the upcoming All-Star game in Toronto. I"m excited for this even if we Utah Jazz fans aren"t likely to have a lot of representation that weekend. Yes, it"s not going to be like that one year where Deron Williams was in the Skills competition, Carlos Boozer was in the All-Star Game, Ronnie Brewer and Paul Millsap were in the Rookie/Soph game, and Morris Almond and Kyrylo Fesenko were in the NBADL All-Star Game. (N.B. Kyle Korver was asked to be in the three point contest that year, but instead elected to use the weekend to go back to Philly to do laundry and pay bills .) This season the team may have no one representing the franchise at the mid-season celebration for the league. Again. But I"m still excited. Why?
Truly, we all should be excited because at the very least it"s another ASG closer to returning the game to Utah. (Freebie Marketing pitch "Bringing the Stars back to Utah.") Having looked at where every game has been played (or in the case of the 1999 game, where it was scheduled to be played had there not been a lockout), and which franchises were the hosts it"s clear to me that the next city to be honored to play host SHOULD be a North West division team.
Atlantic
Central
South East
Arena Location
Year
Arena Location
Year
Arena Location
Year
1
Boston
MA
1951
1
Fort Wayne (DET)
IN
1953
1
St. Louis (ATL)
MO
1958
2
Boston
MA
1952
2
Detroit
MI
1959
2
St. Louis (ATL)
MO
1962
3
New York City
NY
1954
3
Chicago
IL
1973
3
St. Louis (ATL)
MO
1965
4
New York City
NY
1955
4
Milwaukee
WI
1977
4
Baltimore (WAS)
MD
1969
5
Boston
MA
1957
5
Pontiac (DET)
MI
1979
5
Atlanta
GA
1978
6
Philadelphia
PA
1960
6
Richfield (CLE)
OH
1981
6
Landover (WAS)
MD
1980
7
Syracuse (PHI)
NY
1961
7
Indianapolis
IN
1985
7
Miami
FL
1990
8
Boston
MA
1964
8
Chicago
IL
1988
8
Charlotte
NC
1991
9
New York City
NY
1968
9
Cleveland
OH
1997
9
Orlando
FL
1992
10
Philadelphia
PA
1970
10
10
Washington
DC
2001
11
Philadelphia
PA
1976
11
11
Atlanta
GA
2003
12
East Rutherford (BKN)
NJ
1982
12
12
Orlando
FL
2012
13
New York City
NY
1998
13
13
Charlotte
NC
2017
14
Philadelphia *
PA
1999
14
14
15
Philadelphia
PA
2002
15
15
16
New York City
NY
2015
16
16
17
Toronto
ON
2016
17
17
18
18
18
19
19
19
20
20
20
.
South West
North West
Pacific
Arena Location
Year
Arena Location
Year
Arena Location
Year
1
Dallas
TX
1986
1
Seattle (OKC)
WA
1974
1
Rochester (SAC)
NY
1956
2
Houston
TX
1989
2
Denver
CO
1984
2
Los Angeles
CA
1963
3
San Antonio
TX
1996
3
Seattle (OKC)
WA
1987
3
Cincinnati (SAC)
OH
1966
4
Houston
TX
2006
4
Salt Lake City
UT
1993
4
Daly City (GSW)
CA
1967
5
New Orleans
LA
2008
5
Minneapolis
MN
1994
5
San Diego (LAC)
CA
1971
6
Arlington (DAL)
TX
2010
6
Denver
CO
2005
6
Inglewood (LAL)
CA
1972
7
Houston
TX
2013
7
7
Phoenix
AZ
1975
8
New Orleans
LA
2014
8
8
Inglewood (LAL)
CA
1983
9
9
9
Phoenix
AZ
1995
10
10
10
Oakland
CA
2000
11
11
11
Los Angeles
CA
2004
12
12
12
Las Vegas (No Team)
NV
2007
13
13
13
Phoenix
AZ
2009
14
14
14
Los Angeles
CA
2011
15
15
15
16
16
16
17
17
17
18
18
18
19
19
19
20
20
20
While a Central division team hasn"t been host in a while (1997) and it would be "nice" for LeBron James to play host in 2018, I don"t know if the NBA is going to go East four whopping years in a row: New York (2015), Toronto (2016), Charlotte (2017), then Cleveland (2018). The North West division has hosted the game the fewest number of times; though I think the NBA people may feel like the Las Vegas game (they have no team) counts as a "North West game". Worse still, they may elect to either give it to OKC, who has two stars (and a crappy town), or Minny, who have very young guys and by 2018 it"s clear that Andrew Wiggins will be an All-Star. Also, the Twin Cities actually add up to a larger market team (and the largest market in the division) than most of the NBA outside of the Atlantic Division.
Yet I do dream of a Utah All-Star game. Heck, if Utah can host the Olympics, how the heck does Phoenix get two All-Star games since the 90s and New Orleans two in recent memory (2008, 2014)? Okay, we know the New Orleans thing -- Chris Paul is one and post-Katrina local economy surge is the other. There was no Phoenix Arizona Olympics. Get this done, NBA.
Of course, the North West division makes the least amount of money for the NBA, and as a result may not be rewarded with an All-Star game anytime soon. You could argue that Golden State will get one first because they are making a new arena, and the NBA wants to positively reinforce that type of behaviour.
One can make a case for each division. The Atlantic teams have the largest population bases and make the most potential money during the weekend. The Central teams are good, and haven"t held a game since the 90s. The South East teams have nicer weather than the Atlantic and Central teams. The South West has great weather too, and lots of infrastructure in Texas. (No one mention Memphis.) The Pacific is flashy, a great destination, have great weather, and make a lot of money for the NBA, unless it"s Phoenix. The Northwest, well, they are just plain due.
As for Utah over Minny or OKC, well, it"s more Western in location -- which better reflects the conference. Second, it"s a much easier city to deal with in terms of hotels, infrastructure, public transportation downtown, and so forth. Not a lot of "bangin" discotheques" but we all can"t be Las Vegas. There"s no guarantee that Kevin Durant will be a Thunder player by then. And while Minny is a bigger market with a budding star player, Utah is a more establish basketball market and a more solid franchise. The Jazz will be a playoff team in 2018. Minny? Not so much. IF the NBA does give the game to a North West division team in the next five years and they give it to Portland I will fly over there and spill some hipster"s microbrew beer. If it goes to Denver I will . . . actually . . . I can see that happening too. c**p.
January 4, 2016; Oakland, CA, USA; Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lin (7, right) dribbles the basketball against Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30, left) during the third quarter at Oracle Arena. The Warriors defeated the Hornets 111-101. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
Jeremy Lin is one place from making the NBA All-Star 2016 roster as he is ranked eighth among the guards in the Eastern Conference teams. If the first Chinese-American NBA player makes the roster, it will be the first time for him to be voted as an NBA All-Star and to play in an NBA All-Star game.
In the third returns of NBA All-Star 2016 voting, Lin has 155,475 votes while Dwayne Wade and Kyrie Irving rank first and second, respectively. Lin is ranked just behind Derrick Rose from Chicago Bulls.
While Lin is thriving as a Sixth Man of the Year candidate for the Charlotte Hornets, meaning he"s doing extremely well as a benched player, he is the only Hornets player on the list for all-star game voting returns.
His votes are ahead of other players such as Tony Parker, Damian Lillard, Isaiah Thomas, Reggie Johnson, DeAndre Jordan, and Dirk Nowitzki.
As for his stats, Lin is averaging 12.3 points per game, 3.2 rebounds per game, and 3.1 assists per game this season for the Hornets. He is shooting 42.6% from the field and 31.9% from the three-point field goal. What"s impressive is that he is doing this in only 26.5 minutes per game.
In October"s charity concert in Beijing, Lin was invited to be a guest speaker, during which he shared how his faith helped him overcomethe curve b***s that life throws at him. At this time last season, his career was drowning as he played with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers" squad.
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"I think this past season, the one thing I took away was I really felt G*d"s love for me," Lin said as the audience erupted in cheers. "G*d has always shown his love for me throughout my whole life. I think if you look at my life, every bad situation, G*d always turns to a good situation.
"Last season was no different. There were so many games where I"d be so upset after, and I just remember- there were so many nights on the plane or in the car or at home where I"d just start praying. Every single time, G*d gave me this tremendous peace.
"I think that"s when I realized - I might not know where I"m headed next in life, but I can trust who I"m following. G*d"s love is bigger than anything life can throw at me. My response to G*d"s love to me is it made me start to love other people," Lin said.
Lin has since then started a Bible Study for his teammates and began spending time with homeless individuals. Moreover, he has recently asked for prayers that G*d would soften the hearts of his non-believing teammates.
NBA fans have until Jan. 18 to cast their votes for their favorite players to be on the 2016 NBA All-Stars roster at vote.nba.com, NBA App, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google. Those who voted will be entered into a sweepstake for tickets to the 2016 All-Star Weekend in Toronto.
The 65th NBA All-Star game will take place on Sunday, Feb. 14 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Fans can watch the NBA All-Star game live on TNT at 8 p.m. ET.
Here is more info from NBA.com on how to vote. Fans are able to vote up to 10 times per day on each platform listed below.
How to vote:
NBA.com voting pageatNBA.com/vote:Fill out one full ballot per day on NBA.com/vote from a desktop or mobile browser.
NBA App:Access the ballot and vote through the app, which is available on Android and iOS. Fans can fill out one full ballot per day.
Twitter: Tweet, retweet or reply with the player"s first and last name or handle, along with the hashtag #NBAVOTE. Each tweet may include only one player"s name. Fans can vote for 10 unique players each day throughout the All-Star voting period.
Facebook:Use the player"s first and last name along with the hashtag #NBAVOTE in a post on your personal Facebook account, or comment on another"s Facebook post. Fans can post votes for 10 unique players per day, and each vote may contain only one player"s name.
Instagram: Post an original photo with the hashtag #NBAVOTE and the player"s first and last name in the photo caption. Fans can vote for 10 unique players per day, and each vote may contain only one player"s name.
SMS: Text the player"slast nameto 6-9-6-2-2 ("MYNBA") on any wireless device. Fans can vote for 10 different players per day per phone number via SMS voting by sending 10 separate SMS messages, each one with a different player"s last name. Message and data rates may apply.
Google Search:Search "NBA Vote All-Star" or "NBA VoteTeam Name" (ex: NBA Vote Celtics) and use respective team cards to select players. Voters can submit one vote per player per day, with up to 10 total votes per day.
Sina WeiboandTencent Microblogin China.
The voting program started on December 11 and will continue through January 19. The starting lineup will be revealed on Jan. 21. Coaches will pick bench players, and full rosters will be announced on January 28.
Conor McGregor Compares Himself to Captured Mexican Drug Lord "El Chapo" (UFC 197)
LOS ANGELES -- Conor McGregor won the UFC featherweight championship, will fight for the lightweight championship in March, and has already started talking about challenging for the welterweight title.
But if he keeps yapping about Kings MMA, he might find himself in the crosshairs of a heavyweight.
UFC heavyweight champion Fabricio Werdum was among those watching Wednesday"s UFC 197 press conference in Las Vegas, which promoted the March 6 fight between McGregor and lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos.
McGregor repeatedly insulted the soft-spoken dos Anjos, Werdum"s teammate at Kings MMA in Orange County, Calif. And the heavyweight champ, who was in Los Angeles on Thursday promoting his UFC 196 title rematch with Cain Velasquez, didn"t take too kindly to his words.
"When have a fight with my friend, you have a fight with me, too," Werdum said. "We"re a family. If you say something bad, you pay for this for sure."
Werdum took particular exception to McGregor"s habit of talking over dos Anjos when the lightweight champ was asked questions by reporters during the press conference, and by his demeanor in the staredown photo-op.
The heavyweight champ insinuated he would throw his water in McGregor"s face and slap him if McGregor ever attempted to try something like that with him.
"When [reporters] had a question for Raphael and he talked over him, this is no good," Werudm said. "If it was my opponent, I would do this [Werdum makes a gesture like throwing water in his face, then makes a slapping sound], I"d say be quiet." But that"s not Rafael"s personality. He"s a smart guy, okay, he controls himself, he just thinks about the fight."
If anyone has earned the right to talk trash, it"s Werdum, a multi-time world jiu-jitsu championship gold medalist who also ended Fedor Emelianenko"s win streak and made a run all the way to the UFC heavyweight title. But he"s not about to go that route.
"It"s very important to respect," Werdum said. "You have your space, I have my space. We have a fight, why do you touch me before. I thought Conor McGregor wasn"t showing respect. It"s not good. If he does it to me, he has a big problem. It think it"s very important he respects my space and I respect his space."
