Hello and welcome to the FIRST EVER Tyler's Week In Review. I know you're all excited but I can't hear you clapping through the computer. So lets get this review under way! And what a week it was, we had tragic deaths, craziness in Iran (but when is there not craziness in Iran?), A governor who is terrible at lying, Guitar Hero getting trashed by a rock legend, and much more, so lets get this train rolling!!!

Entertainment -

-I'm sure you have all heard this by now but Jon and Kate are getting divorced! But they are still going to do episodes of Jon and Kate plus 8, which thank god they are because I don't think I could live without watching two dysfunctional parents who are divorced trying to raise 8 kids!! Am I right or am I right?!?!

-Jimmy Page and Jack White threw some harsh words at Guitar Hero this week. In an interview, Jack White said "It's depressing to have a label come and tell you that Guitar Hero is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music, If you have to be in a video game to get in front of them, that's a little sad."
Jimmy Page also chimed in by saying he "doesn't believe players of games like Guitar Hero are really learning anything about music"
Now while I agree that it is sad that people are learning about music in front of a video game, I still think Guitar Hero and Rockband are great games. These games are teaching kids about real rock n roll and music. Not that stuff they hear on the radio now-a-days.

-America's Got Talent started this week! Yay, another talent show on TV. But I will admit that I watch it. I personally like the people who have no talent at all but think they do. That's what should be made a show! "America's Got Talent : Reject Edition", now THAT whould be a show! But they have some pretty cool talents on the show. But there is only one american judge on the show. They say America's Got Talent, but appearantly not enough to judge it so they have to pull in two British people and then have David Hasselhoff as the american judge. But here are some videos from the first two episodes-

Day 1-

This guy has a hasselcrush (the part where the guy is singing doesn't actually start until 2:53)
This guy needs to see a doctor
Is this guy Obama or James Brown?
This dog really is rockin'

Day 2-

These kids can dance
Another kid dancer who can, well, dance
A pretty cool magaician act
Transformers got talent
A Dancing Magician

Sports -

-Lucas Glover won the US Open this past week in golf. You're probably saying who? Well so am I. Mainly because I don't watch golf. I only know Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and I'm probably not the only one.

-The United States beat Spain in soccer. Again I don't know much because I don't watch soccer but any sport the US wins in is good. This was a big deal though because the US had to beat Spain to get in to the finals of their bracket and no one though they could do it because Spain was ranked 1 in the country, had a 35 game unbeaten streak and a 15 game winning streak. And the US was on the verge of being eliminated after losing their first two games and being only 1-7-1 against no.1 ranked teams. They ended up losing in the final game though

-The College World Series took place this week too, No. 3 LSU beat No. 1 Texas in 3 games to win it all. It is LSU's 6th national title.

-Blake Griffin from OU was the first overrall pick in the NBA draft last week. That makes the 4th straight draft that a player from the Big 12 has been selected in the top 2. That is pretty remarkable considering most people thing the Big 12 is a football conference. Another big story in the draft that Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Cleveland Caviliers! So lets see, Shaq has played for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Pheonix Suns and now the Cleveland Caviliers. While I like Shaq, I think he just needs to retire. He's pushing 40 and isn't as good as he used to be. But hey, thats just my opinion.


Politics-

-Yay, everyones favorite subject, politics! Lets start off with Iran. Man it is crazy up there isn't it? There have been all sorts of protests against the election results. Why you ask? Well I'll tell you. It was a very close race between the canidates to be the president of Iran (because everyone wants that job) and then all of sudden, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election by more than 100 percent! Crazy right?! I'm just kidding, he actually won with more than 65% of the vote. There have been tons of protests in Iran about not getting their sheep and bread for voting for him. No but really they aren't happy and it is really quite sad. People are dieing up there because of the protests. Despite all of the protests, Iran has decided not to have another election and will keep Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.

-Everyone knows the slimeball Bernie Madoff right? He did that 50 billion dollar scandal that affected more than 13,500 people. Well his lawyers want his sentence reduced to 12 years. What? You can't handle 150 years in prison? You'll only be 221 when you get out for crying out loud! What a wimp.

- Did you hear about the South Carolina governor Mark Sanford? He went missing for four days! But it was all ok, he just went hiking on the Apalachian trail. Well, at least that was his first excuse. He was actually having an affair with a woman in Argentina. Which I say to that, play him off keyboard cat! (For those who don't know, people play the Keyboard Cat when someone does something stupid or dumb)

Random Story Of The Week-

-A Teen by the name of Chase Abrams graduated college a few weeks after graduating High School. How you ask? Well tell you I will. He was involved in the Accelerated College Enrollment and Pre-Accellerated College Enrollment program at Cal Sate. Its basically for people who want to test the college waters and take some classes. Well he did that...and more! His typical day went like this

5 a.m. with a workout at the gym.
6:30 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Take sister to Calabasas.
7:30 a.m. - 8 a.m.: Drive to Chatsworth
8 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Attend high school classes
3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.: Football practice

then he'd finish his college classes at 10 p.m. Then he'd spend 1 weekend day studying and the other weekend day hanging out with friends. But his busy schedule didn't stop him from being a regular teen, he went to prom, had friends and had a girl friend for 2 1/2 years.

Obituaries-

Michael Jackson - 50
Billy Mays - 50
Farrah Fawcett - 62
Ed McMahon - 86