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ROCKETMAN: The Future of Jeremy Lin

NYC! Come join GQ’s Devin Gordon, Grantland’s Hua Hsu, New York Magazine’s Will Leitch and documentary filmmaker Ursula Liang as they discuss GQ’s November 2012 Cover Star Jeremy Lin at the Museum of Chinese in America this Friday. Launching the museum’s new sports-related public program series, MOCASPORTS, they’ll be discussing Lin’s compelling story and what the next chapter might hold for Linsanity. Details below.

ROCKETMAN: The Future of Jeremy Lin
Friday, November 9, at 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Admission: $10 non-members/ $5 MOCA members
RSVP required: programs@mocanyc.org

Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
Telephone: 212 619 4875

For more information and upcoming events, please visit www.mocanyc.org.

Beer! Wine! Air traffic controllers! 

Join us for GQ Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson’s conversation with Jeanne Marie Laskas about her new book, Hidden America. 

Brooklyn, here’s your invite.

On the Cover: Tim Tebow

“No. No, I have not.” A fragile Jets fan and fierce denialist tries to make his peace with the arrival of Tebowmania in New York.

Sanchez walks into the locker room, and all of the molecules zip in his direction. As the scrum gathers, one of the Jets defensive stars, Antonio Cromartie, mock-serenades the reporters from across the room: “Hey, Mark, is it a competition between you and Tebow? Come on, Mark!”

The Jets PR staff handles today’s Sanchez-Tebow locker-room theatrics with perfect synchronicity. The two QBs do not overlap. Moments after Sanchez heads out, Tebow waltzes in. The charitable interpretation here is that the Jets are simply being helpful, sparing reporters from having to make a Sophie’s Choice about which guy to get quotes from. Less kind, but probably no less true, is that they do it to protect Sanchez from the humiliation of having to watch a far bigger crowd gather around his backup. (And there is no question that’s what would’ve happened.)

This is all deeply unfair to Sanchez, and even though it’s not Tebow’s fault, it represents a major obstacle in my quest to like him. In just three seasons as a pro, Sanchez has twice led the Jets to the AFC title game, and unlike Tebow, he has never been blown out in the postseason. Yet all the intangibles that Tebow is said to possess in spades—confidence, the capacity to lead and motivate—Sanchez is said to lack. This part, at least, isn’t unreasonable. At times, Sanchez can seem riven by self-doubt. Whereas Tebow inspires belief, something about Sanchez inspires skepticism, even though (and this is the key thing, or at least you’d think it would be) the actual results are almost always better with Sanchez.

And yet here is Sanchez exiting stage right so that Tebow can have the floor. This is probably more unfairness. Maybe Tebow was made to wait so that Sanchez could go first. But you’d be a fool to believe no one on the Jets put any thought into it.

No matter: It’s almost Tebow Time.

What Carmelo Really Meant When He Called Jeremy Lin’s Contract “Ridiculous”

GQ’s Devin Gordon addresses how Dolan, Melo, and (here we go) race contributed to the end of Linsanity in New York: 

Anybody wanna try to convince me [this] has zero to do with Lin being Asian-American? Because, and let’s cut to the quick, Carmelo Anthony never ever would’ve made that remark about a black NBA player’s contract, and I doubt that he ever would’ve said it about a white player’s, either. If Melo thought that Lin was being wildly overpaid but still, fundamentally, belonged in the club, he would’ve kept his mouth shut. He didn’t because he doesn’t.

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