On the Nature of Things | Forum

“It’s a miracle,” I said to my wife, only half-joking.

“J Lin” is Jeremy Lin, the undrafted point guard from Harvard who has emerged from seemingly nowhere to become the toast of New York and Asian-Americans everywhere with his surprising star turn for the Knicks.

On Monday, I rushed home from work to find a live stream of the Knicks-Jazz game. (Time Warner, my cable provider, removed the MSG channels because of a dispute over subscriber fees.) Lin turned in another jaw-dropping performance, and did it again Wednesday in Washington. The Lakers game on Friday proved nearly too much for me to handle.

Yes, Linsanity.

But it also represented much more than that, at least to me.

Like Lin, I’m a Harvard graduate, albeit more than a decade ahead of him, and a second-generation Chinese-American. I’m also a fellow believer, one of those every-Sunday-worshiping, try-to-read-the-Bible-and-pray types, who agreed with Lin when he said to reporters after the Jazz game, “God works in mysterious and miraculous ways.”

Why nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.

Antipatros wrote:Do you suppose the match lived up to this buildup, or was it pure anticlimax?

Maori Haka versus Aboriginal War Cry

noddy wrote:

Antipatros wrote:Do you suppose the match lived up to this buildup, or was it pure anticlimax?

Maori Haka versus Aboriginal War Cry

not a huge fan of the rugby but surprisingly to me, the aborigines won.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous ... by_league)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealan ... eague_team

i suppose not all polynesians can be jonah lomu and make 110kg+ professionals look like scared little boys.

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