Yesterday Repair Labs posted a picture of what it says is the back housing for the iPad 3, supposedly from “industry insiders” in China. Comparing the component to the iPad 2, it reveals some differences, specifically that there will be more room for a larger battery, a different camera and a new LCD screen. The sources also said the new design would not be thicker than the iPad 2. (You can see the image below.)

After that, the blog Cult of Mac posted pictures that are allegedly of other internal components of the iPad 3 “hot off the factory floor.” While the photos show some internal components remain the same, there are some notable new ones, mainly a new camera and a redesigned Wi-Fi radio. The pictures include one of the back housing, which supports the other report that the iPad casing won’t change — although it may have a repositioned headphone jack.

If that wasn’t enough, the Japanese blog iLab Factory posted photos of what it says is probably the iPad 3′s LCD screen. The site says the panel “seems to be” made by Sharp, measuring 9.7 inches diagonally, with a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536 pixels, or four times the resolution of the iPad 2 (double the pixels in both directions).

Finally, All Things D reports that “sources” say Apple will hold an event in March (not in February, as had been previously reported) to launch the iPad 3. It’ll be in San Francisco, probably the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the regular location for Apple launches. The site’s sources said previous rumors are correct — that the next iPad will have a faster processor (the A6), with a higher-resolution display and improved graphics.

Of course, all of this is unconfirmed, though everything is pretty much in line with what has been expected of the next iPad, with the exception of the new headphone jack — something even the source site expresses doubts about.

Instead, the Cupertino technology behemoth held a handful of private meetings and briefings with news organizations (including Mashable), unveiling the goods to a select few, then letting the news roll in the dawn hours.

On the one hand, you have to give Apple credit. The company would probably dominate the day’s tech news if it told no one beforehand and launched its product in the middle of the weekend, just as much as it would with a big, splashy, liveblogged-up-the-wazoo event.

On the other hand, the whole affair does run the risk of making Apple appear more selective and elitist than ever.

Last year, Steve Jobs took the stage for the last time at Apple’s developer’s conference to talk about Lion, unveil iOS 5, and reinvigorate Apple’s cloud-based service with iCloud. It’s hard to think of that event and not remember the frail founder giving it his all.

Mountain Lion, however, got none of this. Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, does not appear anywhere near as comfortable on stage as Jobs (at least not from the evidence of the iPhone 4S launch). Are the days of unveiling every new Apple product with big fanfare and a lavish presentation in front of an audience over?

Some might argue that this is just a point upgrade, so there’s no need for a big show. But in case you haven’t noticed, Apple has been doing some pretty major changes under the guise of smaller point upgrades. With a reported 100 new features in Mountain Lion, there’s nothing small about this update.

Mountain Lion changes the names of fundamental features, pushes services to the cloud, and allies itself to Twitter at the expense of Facebook. And that’s really just scratching the surface.

Yet here we are, with a developer’s version of the new OS already in our hands, a beta version of Message (the replacement for iChat) available to anyone with a Mac running Lion, and no event to pin it on.

To know what Cook and company think and feel about these changes, we have to interpret a very few selective quotes. For instance, here’s what Cook told the Wall Street Journal about Apple’s overall strategic vision for bringing OS X and iOS closer together:

“We see that people are in love with a lot of apps and functionality [on their phones]. Anywhere where that makes sense, we are going to move that over to Mac.”

Cook didn’t say that the two operating systems are merging, but he is already thinking about them “as one with incremental functionality.” And, of course, Cook managed to get a subtle ding in about Apple’s biggest competitor in the desktop OS space. “I don’t really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple,” Cook said; any pressure they feel is “self-induced.”

This puts Apple, and Cook, in the same realm as the Honey Badger: They just don’t care. Apple is now so big, so successful, so powerful, that it really can do everything its own way. This seems to be what the company is saying:

Competing? That’s for dummies. We’re in our own space, competing against ourselves.

Those event-driven product-ganzas you so loved? They were a favor we did for you. But we realized that we put a lot of time and resources into them and are not certain we got all the return we desired. We couldn’t control them to the extent we wanted, so we told only a handful of trusted outlets, to make sure you got our product message loud and clear.

In fact, I don’t think Apple will kill product events altogether. This Mountain Lion drop was almost certainly something of a throat-clearing measure before Apple’s next two or three massive product announcements: iPad 3, iPhone 5 and Apple iTV.

The rumor mill says we should expect the first as early as March 7. The iPhone 5 could come in June, and iTV could be September. Compared to them, it’s likely Apple thought Mountain Lion wasn’t big enough to warrant face time with an audience.

I hope that is the case, because if access to Apple announcements and new products remains this narrow, the company could one day find itself struggling to gain the attention it wants. I know it sounds like a crazy pronouncement now, but the one constant in the tech industry is change. If you told someone in 1999 that the global media would one day care more about product launches from Apple and Google than those of Microsoft, they’d call you insane too.

For the moment, however, Apple and Cook can do whatever the heck they want, and we’ll all still eagerly listen and cover. What choice do we have?

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Defending champion Blake Griffin passed on returning, leaving a lackluster field of New York’s Iman Shumpert, Paul George of Indiana, rookie Derrick Williams of Minnesota and Houston’s Chase Budinger.

The league announced Thursday that there no longer will be judges in the event, which also will be reduced to one round. Each contestant will execute three dunks. Fans will determine the champion by voting on NBA.com, Twitter or through text messaging.

The format in recent years was two rounds, with a panel of judges voting on the first round before fan voting in the second.

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Because of our squeamishness with cultural stereotypes, most of the words dedicated to understanding the role being Asian-American played in how and why so many missed on Jeremy Lin have been muted. Scared of offending, we instead act like there are no cultural differences. We ignore the truth in an attempt to be a color-blind society.

This is offensive to me, mainly because it seems so patently wrong.

His being Asian-American is exactly why I am not surprised by Lin’s success in the NBA. And I am predicting more and more kids like Lin, raised to emphasize academics, to dominate athletics as already has happened in mathematics and engineering, law schools and medical schools, and almost every inch of an ever-tightening global job market.

You know why I believe this? Chua.

The author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother wrote a really smart book about why she thinks Chinese parenting is superior and this philosophy, when applied to sports, is why nobody should be surprised that a Taiwanese-American brainiac from Harvard is killing it in the NBA despite zero expectations for him.

We say Jeremy Lin came out of nowhere when really he at least partially came out of this very Asian-American philosophy of demanding excellence in academics that rarely has been applied to sports. And while more about philosophy than ethnicity and capable of being achieved by any culture, it is also a very anti-Western parenting approach.

Can I say this without offending somebody? Probably not.

That is because it is true. And we prefer the politically correct lie over the truth nowadays.

For those who only read the Google highlights of Tiger Mother, the take away is she abhors sports as an acceptable long-term goal for kids. This is not totally untrue. On the first page, she highlights things her kids were not allowed to do, including but not limited to:

Attend a sleepover
Have a play date
Be in a school play
Choose their own extracurricular activities.

And her kids certainly were not bouncing from soccer practice to tennis in an over-scheduled pursuit of keeping up with The Joneses. This is only the surface story. My copy of Tiger Mother has been highlighted and dog-eared with little notes jotted in margins. And what I know for sure after reading this is this emphasis on excellence is exactly why her youngest daughter was good at tennis once allowed to play.

Chua talks at length about things I very much believe. Nothing is fun until you are good at it. Being good at anything requires more work than most want to do. Children especially do not want to work. All of this leads Chua to conclude “it is crucial to override their preferences.”

To back this up, Chua tells a story of The Little White Donkey — a piano piece by French composer Jacques Ibert that her daughter struggled at and wanted to quit. This led to a large battle where Chua called her daughter lazy, cowardly, self-indulgent, pathetic. Eventually her daughter got it right and was beaming, having learned a lesson well beyond that piece.

I re-read that chapter when my will wanes and I fear my 3-year-old daughter will one day hate me for insisting she has to get her flash cards completely right before we can play Candy Land and then insist we play using only Spanish words. At times like this, this paragraph gives me strength.

“Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they are capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.”

I do not know exactly how Lin was raised but his quantifiable stats suggest his parents believed in the latter. He had a 4.2 at a very competitive Palo Alto High and went to Harvard where he graduated with a degree in economics. He was cut by NBA teams, relegated to the D-league and only given a chance because injuries provided no other choice.

He is not starring in Linsanity simply because of God-given talent, or because his AAU coach told him how special he was, or because he called home and his dad told him he was getting run over by racist coaches in college or the NBA. Linsanity is a product of him learning the skills, work habits, and inner confidence that fueled him.

I recently read where Lin’s dad, a Taiwanese immigrant, encouraged his sons to play basketball because he was not allowed. The key and largely overlooked parts of the story, at least to me, were that he drilled them and they practiced basics only after homework was done. And his mom insisted basketball not impact his studies or he’d be barred from playing. She also refused to come to games unless he promised to try. This is very Tiger Mom.

This willingness to practice is why Asian kids dominate the top music conservatories, according to Chua, and why they will one day dominate sports, according to me. Chua has a brilliant takedown of this idea of the soccer mom as the equivalent of the Chinese mother. I am highlighting those that pertain to sports:

“(5) If your child ever disagrees with your teacher or coach, you must always take the side of the teacher or coach.

(6) The only activities your children should be permitted to do are those in which they can eventually win a medal

(7) That medal must be gold.”

The lesson of Jeremy Lin is not that Tiger parenting is wrong, let kids follow their dreams and view sports as a ticket. The lesson is whatever your dream, it is more likely to be achieved with a foundation of work and sacrifice and not giving up.

And have a degree and a backup plan because you never know.

Are we teaching that in the West? No way.

Ask college, AAU and high school coaches how many parents side with them when their kid blames coaching for their lack of excellence. We live in a culture where we worship our kids, where we worship the destination and downplay the work required, where athletes give Hall of Fame speeches about working hard so their parents would not have to work, where money is the goal, where somebody else always is to blame.

We think we are helping our kids. What we are doing is giving them permission to give up, and teaching them how to fail.

The Chinese are kicking ass in the world economy not because they are smarter or better but simply because they work harder. This is not a stereotype. This, as Chua noted in her book, is backed up by “studies showing marked and quantifiable differences” between parenting philosophies.

A quick word on stereotypes: Chua wrote a 239-page book on why Asian parenting is better, and no apologies were demanded as far as I can tell. The truth about stereotypes is we only hate the ones that make us look bad.

The truth is Chinese parenting is less about ethnicity than philosophy. There are black fathers who are Tiger Moms. There single moms who are Tiger Moms. There are Chinese moms who are not. It is about what we teach, not what we look like.

What I know for sure, two days after watching Lin bury a 3-pointer at the buzzer to fuel another New York Knicks victory, is what makes him different also is what is fueling Linsanity.

Whitney Houston

Her death came as the music industry descended on Los Angeles for the annual celebration of the Grammy Awards, and Ms. Houston was — for all her difficulties over the years — one of its queens. She was staying at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Saturday to attend a pre-Grammy party being hosted by Clive Davis, the founder of Arista Records, who had been her pop mentor.

Ms. Houston was found in her room at 3:55 p.m., and paramedics spent close to 20 minutes trying to revive her, the authorities said. There was no immediate word on the cause of her death, but the authorities said there were no signs of foul play.

From the start of her career more than two decades ago, Ms. Houston had the talent, looks and pedigree of a pop superstar. She was the daughter of Cissy Houston, a gospel and pop singer who had backed up Aretha Franklin, and the cousin of Dionne Warwick. (Ms. Franklin is Ms. Houston’s godmother.)

Ms. Houston’s range spanned three octaves, and her voice was plush, vibrant and often spectacular. She could pour on the exuberant flourishes of gospel or peal a simple pop chorus; she could sing sweetly or unleash a sultry rasp.

Dressed in everything from formal gowns to T-shirts, she cultivated the image of a fun-loving but ardent good girl, the voice behind songs as perky as “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” and as torchy as what became her signature song, a version of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.”

But by the mid-1990s, even as she was moving into acting with films like “The Bodyguard” and “The Preacher’s Wife,” she became what she described, in a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, as a “heavy” user of marijuana and cocaine. By the 2000s she was struggling; her voice grew smaller, scratchier and less secure, and her performances grew erratic.

All of Ms. Houston’s studio albums were million-sellers, and two have sold more than 10 million copies in the United States alone: her 1985 debut album and the 1992 soundtrack to “The Bodyguard,” which includes “I Will Always Love You.”

But her marriage to the singer Bobby Brown — which was, at one point, documented in a Bravo reality television series, “Being Bobby Brown” — grew miserable, and in the 2000s, her singles slipped from the top 10. Ms. Houston became a tabloid subject: the National Enquirer ran a photo of her bathroom showing drug paraphernalia. And each new album — “Just Whitney” in 2002 and “I Look to You” in 2009 — became a comeback.

At Central Park in 2009, singing for “Good Morning America,” her voice was frayed, and on the world tour that followed the release of the album “I Look to You” that year, she was often shaky.

Whitney Houston was born on Aug. 9, 1963, in Newark. She sang in church, and as a teenager in the 1970s and early 1980s, she worked as a backup studio singer and featured vocalist with acts including Chaka Khan, the Neville Brothers and Bill Laswell’s Material.

Mr. Davis signed her after hearing her perform in a New York City nightclub, and spent two years supervising production of the album “Whitney Houston,” which was released in 1985. It placed her remarkable voice in polished, catchy songs that straddled pop and R & B, and it included three No. 1 singles: “Saving All My Love for You,” “How Will I Know” and “The Greatest Love of All.”

Because Ms. Houston had been credited on previous recordings, including a 1984 duet with Teddy Pendergrass, she was ruled ineligible for the best new artist category of the Grammy Awards; the eligibility criteria have since been changed. But with “Saving All My Love for You,” she won her first Grammy award, for best female pop vocal performance, an award she would win twice more.

Her popularity soared for the next decade. Her second album, “Whitney,” in 1987, became the first album by a woman to enter the Billboard charts at No. 1, and it included four No. 1 singles. She shifted her pop slightly toward R & B on her third album, “I’m Your Baby Tonight,” in 1990, which had two more No. 1 singles.

For much of the 1990s, she turned to acting, bolstered by her music. She played a pop diva in “The Bodyguard,” and its soundtrack album — including the hits “I Will Always Love You,” “I’m Every Woman,” “I Have Nothing” and “Run to You” — went on to sell 17 million copies in the United States. It won the Grammy for album of the year, and “I Will Always Love You” won record of the year (for a single). After making the films “Waiting To Exhale” in 1995 and “The Preacher’s Wife” in 1996 — which gave her the occasion to make a gospel album — Ms. Houston resumed her pop career with “My Love Is Your Love” in 1998.

Ms. Houston married Mr. Brown in 1992, and in 1993 they had a daughter, Bobbi Kristina, who survives her. Ms. Houston’s 2009 interview with Ms. Winfrey portrayed it as a passionate and then turbulent marriage, marred by drug use and by his professional jealousy, psychological abuse and physical confrontations. They divorced in 2007.

Her albums in the 2000s advanced a new persona for Ms. Houston. “Just Whitney,” in 2002, was defensive and scrappy, lashing out at the media and insisting on her loyalty to her man. Her most recent studio album, “I Look to You,” appeared in 2009, and it, too, reached No. 1. The album included a hard-headed breakup song, “Salute,” and a hymnlike anthem, “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.” Ms. Houston sang, “I crashed down and I tumbled, but I did not crumble/I got through all the pain,” in a voice that showed scars.

Neil R. Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Grammys, called her “one of the world’s greatest pop singers of all time, who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack.”

“A light has been dimmed in our music community today,” he said.

Lt. Mark Rosen, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department, said that emergency workers responded to a 911 call from security at the Beverly Hilton hotel on Wilshire Boulevard at 3:43 p.m., saying that Ms. Houston was unconscious in her fourth-floor suite. He said that some Fire Department personnel were already on the scene to help prepare for a pre-Grammy party.

Lieutenant Rosen said that detectives had arrived to conduct what he said was a full-scale investigation into the death. He said that Ms. Houston’s body was still in the hotel room as of 8 p.m. and would not be removed until the investigation was completed.

“There were no obvious signs of foul play,” he said. “It’s still fresh an investigation to know whether — the reality is she was too far too young to die and any time you have the death of someone this age it is the subject of an investigation.”

Ms. Houston arrived at the hotel with what Lieutenant Rosen described as an entourage of friends and family, some of whom were in the hotel suite at the time. He said that police had notified Ms. Houston’s mother and daughter of the death; it was unclear whether or not they were there.

At Mr. Davis’s party, where Ms. Houston was a regular guest and performer, tourists shot cellphone pictures of a police crime laboratory van parked outside. But inside, the glamour of the event seemed undiminished, even if Ms Houston’s name was on everyone’s lips

The streets in front of the Beverly Hilton, already crowded because of the Grammy Awards party taking place there, swarmed with reporters and fans, drawn by the news of this latest high-profile pop star dying in Los Angeles.

Even after the news of Ms. Houston’s death had been released, celebrities and other partygoers continued to arrive for the Davis event, which went on as planned, while fans stood behind a rope trying to take pictures. Dressed in evening gowns and tuxedos, people stepped out of limousines at curbside and streamed into the hotel.

A number of fans came to mourn Ms. Houston and to show their support. “I was in utter, total disbelief,” Lavetris Singleton said. “Who was not a fan of Whitney Houston at some point?”

“I want to show support because she inspired a lot of people and nobody’s perfect,” she said. “But if we’re not out here then she’ll be forgotten. We are her legacy.”

Performers at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the Grammys are to be held, heard about Ms. Houston’s death just as Rihanna and Coldplay were about to rehearse their number for the awards.

The show’s producer, Ken Ehrlich, debated about how to acknowledge Ms. Houston’s death. (The show is already scheduled to include a tribute by Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt to Etta James, the blues singer who died last month, as well as a video segment about music figures who died in 2011.)

After the initial shock, Mr. Ehrlich said he called Jennifer Hudson and asked her to come and sing one of Ms. Houston’s songs during the televised show on Sunday as a simple memorial. “We are going to do something very simple, not elaborate,” he said. “We just want to keep it respectful.”

“My feeling was it’s too early to do an extended tribute,” Mr. Ehrlich added, “but we really wanted to remember her because she was so closely tied to the Grammys.”

Besides her daughter, now 18, Ms. Houston is survived by her mother. A woman who answered the telephone at the Edgewater, N.J., home of Ms. Houston’s mother on Saturday night said she would not speak to reporters.

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The Giants are a better team than the Patriots, and that is why at 9:52 Sunday night they took a shower in confetti in the middle of Lucas Oil Stadium.

“We Are The Champions” thumped through the speakers, and for this Giants team, that “we” applies to 53 players, an entire coaching staff and an ownership group that has constructed one of the NFL’s model franchises.

They are Super Bowl champions — all of them.

From Eli Manning, the most deserved MVP of this 21-17 victory, to Chase Blackburn, the substitute teacher-turned-linebacker who came up with a big interception, to Mario Manningham, the third wide receiver who made a catch that will be remembered forever.

The Patriots always prided themselves on being the ultimate team-first organization, no individual greater than the Paul Revere lookalike who used to adorn their helmets. But in this Super Bowl, they were not a great team. They were a great quarterback surrounded by players that made too many mistakes.

The Giants have a great quarterback, too, but he was embedded with great teammates — be it Lawrence Tynes booting two field goals, Steve Weatherford pinning the Patriots deep in their own zone, or Henry Hynoski and Chris Snee recovering fumbles.

They all should take a bow, but none of them would unless they could do it together.

And it starts with Manning.

He was asked once again about being an “elite” quarterback, and if there is any justice in football, he never will be asked again. Manning is the only Giants quarterback to win two Super Bowls, which also happens to be one more than his brother.

He never will have Tom Brady’s numbers, but in the biggest of games he has outmatched this generation’s most accomplished quarterback twice. They went throw for throw Sunday until Brady flinched first, throwing a pick. Manning was near-flawless.

Does that put him in the same stratosphere of greatness as Brady and Peyton?

Does it even matter?

Not to Manning, who just shook his head at the question told the cameras, “Ya’ll can debate that all you want. I just know we’re world champions, and that’s what I’m most proud of.”

Manning’s coach, Tom Coughlin, would be no more inclined to reflect on his having twice outmaneuvered Bill Belichick. Nor would he wave a finger at those who just six weeks ago would have seen him fired.

Coughlin talked about none of those things Saturday night when he gave a speech that still had players’ veins coursing with adrenaline 24 hours later.

First, the Giants watched a highlight video of their winning streak, set to “In the air tonight.” Then, Coughlin did something he couldn’t recall doing with another team: He told them he loved them. All of them.

“I might have felt that way about one or two other teams along the way,” Coughlin said, “but this is a very special team to me.”

It is a special team, indeed, when a 7-7 squad starts winning and doesn’t stop until the season ends with champagne and confetti. But it is an even more special team when every spot on the roster contributes something, often in a way that tugs at the heart strings.

It seems impossible to believe Blackburn was a substitute teacher in Ohio just two months before he chased Rob Gronkowski 40 yards down the field, boxed him out and intercepted a pass.

Or that Weatherford was a Jets castoff before he plopped three punts inside the 20. Or that Manningham was lost in the emergence of Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz before he made a 38-yard catch that set up the winning score.

This Super Bowl will go down as one of the greatest of all time, every bit as good as four years ago. Manningham’s catch will be replayed like David Tyree’s. Ahmad Bradshaw will laugh about scoring a touchdown when he didn’t mean to. Giants fans’ pulse rates will quicken every time they see a replay of the Hail Mary pass.

Those are all wonderful memories, but when we reflect on Super Bowl XLVI, let this also not be forgotten: The best team won.

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“Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don’t get the same praise,” Mayweather wrote.

Iguodala agreed Lin’s race — he is the first Asian-American to start an NBA game — has factored in the attention he is receiving, but did not want to detract from what the former Harvard star was achieving on the court.

“When you see the majority doing it you say, ‘Ah, he’s been doing it since he was a kid. It’s in his blood, whatever,’” Iguodala told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“You see [Lin] doing it and you say, ‘You’re serious?’ It’s kind of like seeing a black hockey player doing well.

“Race does play a role in it but at the same time you have to respect it, that’s how I feel. You have to respect it whether you like it or not. It’s a feel-good story.”

Lin hit a game-winning three with less than a second on the clock against the Raptors Tuesday to guide the Knicks to a sixth straight win — and send Linsanity into overdrive.

His No. 17 jersey has become the league’s top seller, while Madison Square Garden Co.’s share price has soared to an all-time high.

Iguodala said the interesting thing will be seeing if Lin can maintain his success long-term.

“He’s only six games in the league. Game 30, game 40, that’s where you can kind of see where a guy’s at,” he said.

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The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, apparently has so much faith in his hometown team, the New York Giants, that he is willing to wager $1,000,000 on the Giants in the Super Bowl, according to his Twitter account.

But another tweet uncovered a bet that would cause the Queens native to flash his family jewels for millions to see.

In a tweet sent from @mybestassets on Jan. 22, 50 Cent was challenged to bare all if the Giants lose their 2008 Super Bowl rematch vs. the New England Patriots.

“Lets bet. If the Giants lose the Superbowl, u must post ur d–k on the twitter. If they win, I’ll post my boobs & face. Bet?” she wrote.

50 Cent’s Twitter reply?

“OK.”

After winning $500,000 off the Giants’ 20-17 overtime win vs. the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, 50 Cent appears to be letting it all hang out, taking bets to the extreme while Big Blue continues their magical run.

Let’s all just hope the magical run has a happy ending for the Giants and 50 Cent’s 5.6 million Twitter followers.

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