I'm sure many monkeys watch Game of Thrones during their little spare time. Sure, our life is not as crazy as the incestuous Targaryens, the dueling of the Houses, or the raping and pillaging of the Dothrakis, but we do have our fears of short-coming and the day-to-day worries. I was especially inspired after last weekend's episode of Game of Thrones (S3E6 for those of you scoring at home), when Lady Melisandre told this to Gendry.

Lady M: You are more than they can ever be. They are just foot soldiers in the great war. You can make kings rise and fall.

So I've been meaning to do a post about this for a while now but I've always found more "fun" things to write about instead. Then I came across this great reply by Alex Chu from MBAapply buried in a Business School Barrage thread ( Harvard versus Stanford for Entertainment industry) that may or may not have been started by a high school kid. Note: the following is NOT my work. I will add some comments to the end of the post from my personal experience working for one of the major studios in the third bucket (Corporate).

When I signed up to be a contributing author I wanted to write primarily about the business of media and entertainment. However, I've found that you monkeys like the tangible side of things better, such as sporting events, Oscars, and any other worthwhile events happening in the broader entertainment space. Soooooo this leads to me thinking about how to better drive discussion among us monkeys that don't want to think about numbers after spending too much time in Excel.

With that, I am embedding below several awesome trailers that have come out in the last couple of days in case you missed it:

Man of Steel

Mod note (andy): what are the odds that Tiger wins?

Ah a wonderful week of sports. Monday it was a great national championship game down to the wire, capped off by a horrible call towards the end of the game when Burke pinned the ball against the backboard on a Siva fastbreak. Horrible way to end a great season for the Wolverines. But alas, grats to the Louisville Cardinals and a heartwarming ending to the team that saw one of its key players break his leg during the tournament. This is also the last full week of the regular NBA season where we will probably see an epic choke job by the Lakers. More on playoffs preview next week, I suppose.

This week, however, all spotlight is on the best annual tournament. Going to the event is certainly on the list of things I'd love to do in the next few years. When people talk about the Masters, you can hear the admiration of the event in their voices. Then you hear the CBS music, Verne and Nantz's voice, the grass, the applause and cheers, and the great moments throughout the years.

A video surfaced earlier this week from ESPN. My first reaction was "holy smokes Bobby Knight is coaching again?" Anyways, take a look at the video first then I'll share my thoughts.

We haven't seen this sort of behavior on the basketball court in a while from a coach. Ever since Bob Knight descended into the darkness of the night there's no one crazy figure to report on. Frank Martin, formerly of Kansas St, was the scary sergeant looking coach that every player was afraid of. When a player made a mistake, you can just feel his icy cold stares going around the room.

Just when NBC thought things couldn't get worse in March after a miserable February, when the network was bounced to FIFTH place in the sweeps ratings for the 18-49 demo by none other than Univision, this month the drama gets even worse. With Matt Lauer on the rumor mill of leaving, the NBC's beloved $25 million per year (you read that right) man is looking like he'll be leaving at least 18 months earlier than the contract. Not only that, the huge drama surrounding Jay Leno (who still watches him anyways) and the succession plan (really doing this again?) has been...silly to say the least. I'm not a huge fan of Fallon and to this day am still really bitter about Conan, but it is about time for Leno to leave. He hasn't been funny in a loooong time.

My absolute favorite week of the year (BY FAR. More than Xmas, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving, Super Bowl, Festivus, whatever. Probably more than all those combined) is upon us. In approximately 12 hours the games will be underway. I've been getting crushed at work but am seriously considering buying a last minute ticket from LA to Vegas on Friday night. Tickets are close to $400 roundtrip on Southwest but it's so worth it to be there on the first weekend. If you have not tried it please do give it a try.

Fox confirmed many's suspicion and announced it will be launching a nationwide sports network in August this year. I don't know about you but I am fairly ecstatic about this move. Moar sports = better!!!!! They already announced collaboration between Regis Philbin and Mike Tyson for content on the network, which is...lukewarm at best right now. I actually am a pretty big fan of both, as I think Regis is great and Tyson is a lot smarter than he actually acts and sounds. But it is unfortunate because I don't think they'd be competing with ESPN anytime soon.