Just as The Back Page wrote last week, Jeremy Lin ’10 is quickly jumping up the list of Harvard’s most notable alumni. But, just as every media outlet reminds its audience, the path hasn’t always been easy for Lin. Therefore, we at TBP had the idea to make Lin’s journey from Crimson bench player to the next NBA human-highlight reel as accessible as possible. So here it is, a Lineage of the point guard’s road from number four to number 17, resident of Harvard Yard to owner of a Trump Tower apartment.

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With many teams starting theirs seasons and other hitting the championship grind, The Back Page decided to check in on how the teams are comparing with each other in this busy weekend in Harvard Athletics.

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Is there a place for Carmelo Anthony in New York? Unfortunately for Knicks fans, the first signs are not auspicious.

On Monday night, the Knicks (16-17) lost for only the second time since Jeremy Lin ’10 entered the starting lineup, falling to the New Jersey Nets (10-24), 100- 92. The Nets avenged their loss from Feb. 4, the night that Jeremy Lin introduced himself to the NBA.  Anthony returned to the lineup for the first time since suffering a pulled groin during the Knicks’ 99-88 victory over the Utah Jazz on Feb. 6.

All of New York—well, all of the eyes that weren’t fixed courtside on Jay –Z and Beyoncé—was watching to see how Anthony fit in with the “New York Lins.” In recent days, Anthony has answered questions as to whether he can coexist with the Knicks’ new point guard. Monday’s game did not yield a conclusive answer. Anthony finished with 11 points, six assists, and five rebounds and appeared rusty on the court, tallying a game-high six turnovers.

Meanwhile, Lin continued to fill up the stat sheet for the Knicks.  The Harvard grad and Spike Lee favorite recorded 21 points, nine assists, seven rebounds, and four steals in 36 minutes of play.  Perhaps more importantly, Lin addressed the growing concern about his high turnover numbers, only coughing the ball up three times, well below his average of 6.6.   The overnight sensation achieved yet another career first when he fouled out with 44.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter.

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Chelsea Janes, of the Yale Daily News, recently published a column in which she argued that the Bulldogs may be in the midst of their greatest athletic season ever. Janes cites, among other things, the—albeit unlikely—potential for Yale to win the most Ivy League titles in the history of its athletic program. In 1958-59, the Bulldogs took home eight Ivy League titles; that was before Title IX and the emergence of women’s athletics, which added 16 women’s teams to the mix. Janes makes this point exhaustively, but somehow forgets to realize that this means the 2011-12 edition would have to win far more than eight titles in order to surpass ’58-59’s dominance.

We’ll forgive her illogical use of numbers—after all, when choosing her school she clearly thought #3 was better than #1—and instead hit her back with some numbers of our own:

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It’s a miracle that Twitter has not exploded sometime over the past two weeks because of the Knicks' new point guard Jeremy Lin ‘10. LIN-sanity has taken over Twitter, the Internet, the NBA, and most of planet Earth. The Harvard grad and NBA sensation has become the hottest athlete on the web, garnering over one million Twitter followers in China along the way.

As you read this, Twitter is bursting with new words and puns about Jeremy “Stroking it Like a Mando” Lin.  Just check Spike Lee’s Twitter.   The world is using Twitter to spread the LIN-sanity. Here are our top 5 Jeremy Lin tweets of the week.

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