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Fab Five of the Week

January 22, 2010 at 10:00 am | Fab 5
By: StevieY19

Hard to follow last week’s news of Mark McGwire and Lane Kiffin, but here it goes.

Athletes help Haiti. By far the most important story out there for the past week-plus is the tragedy in Haiti. It feels right that athletes are doing their part and even inspired Jay Mariotti to write a decent piece. Crazy, right? I know I’m missing a ton, but Samuel Dalembert has been amazing with his contributions, along with other NBA stars current and past like D-Wade and Alonzo Mourning. Hendrick Motor Sports sent planes to help bring people and supplies to the region. Planes! Roger Federer, David Ortiz, John Calipari (!)…the list goes on and on.

Jets Jets Jets. The New York Jets are in the AFC Championship Game. Rex Ryan’s boys beat the Chargers in the only decent game of the weekend and move on to play the Colts this week, a game Ryan would be absolutely “shocked” to lose. Really? You can’t say the guy is shy or lacks value as entertainment. He also sent Marty Shottenheimer the game ball from the win over the Chargers, who fired Marty after a great regular season ended in a playoff disappointment. Ha!

Billups is always right. Chauncey Billups spoke up this week about the ridiculous charade that is NBA all-star voting. When he gave the statement, Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady were both slated to be starters based on fan voting. It looks like Steve Nash will actually pass T-Mac, but it’s still worth listening to the Wise One some more: ‘I would rather it be something like the players vote (for the starters). Everybody knows who should be there or who is playing good enough as far as your peers go. … The fans probably should affect something. But I think that’s a bit too much.’” I e-gree.

Goooooooaaaalllll. Check out this amazing hockey goal!

No more streaking. Two large streaks came to an end in one night this week, and I’m not talking about Stormin’ Norman’s laundry. Hey-o! Wednesday night Memphis needed a win over UTEP to set the NCAA record for consecutive conference wins with 65. Didn’t happen. The…Miners?…UTEPers pulled the upset and ended a streak that was mostly blowouts in devastating fashion. Winning 64 straight in conference is impressive regardless of competition, but the Tigers have to be at least a little embarrassed. On the same night DePaul ended its 24 game losing streak in the Big East by taking down Marquette. Wooooooo! Check out the heroics.