Yup, he’s everywhere Most annoying things about Linsanity It’s the story that’s taken the sports world by storm. It’s inescapable. It’s ubiquitous. It’s omnipresent. It’s forcing us to use Roget’s Thesaurus at an unprecedented rate. It is, obviously, the A’s signing of Cuban sensation Yoenis Cespedes. No. Of course it isn’t. It’s New York Knicks phenom guard Jeremy Lin. And it is, quite possibly, the most overblown sports sensation since Tom Brady’s hair. Say it with me now: Slow. News. Week. Here are the top 5 most irksome things about Linsanity. 1. D-League highlights. On television. Seriously. If it’s the D-League, isn’t it, by definition, NOT a highlight? 2. All these Knicks highlights are crowding out the NHL highlights. Oh wait. 3. Plays on words. Lin-sanity. Super Lin-tendo. All we do is Lin Lin Lin. Right. We get it. Hilarious. Enough already. The pun is the lowest form of humor. 4. Tim Tebow. That’s right, we blame EVERYTHING on Tebow. But look. The NFL season is looooong over. The Broncos got bounced in the second round. Why oh why are we talking about Tim Tebow again? And yet there he is, all over our LCD screens. 5. Honestly? We’re anti-anything-that-means-more-Stephen-A.Smith on SportsCenter. — Bill Kolb
So is he. Hi, Tim!
Lin: Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zuma Press Tebow: Rupert George/MaxDenver.com
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The number of soccer teams with double-digit seeds to earn upset wins in the first round of the North Coast Section soccer playoffs on Feb. 15. Pilar Souder and the 12th-seeded College ParkPleasant Hill girls soccer team were the lowestseeded girls team to win, defeating Berkeley 2-0. The biggest upset of them all was in the Division II boys bracket where No. 16 St. Mary’s-Berkeley shocked No. 1 Acalanes-Lafayette 1-0.
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