Hines is "Dancing with the Stars"

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When reading about the other contestants, I'm not sure which surprised me more:

The fact that Ralph Macchio is 49 years old...

Or the fact that Kirstie Alley is 60 years old.

You gotta stop watching the Karate Kid and Cheers reruns so often.

Personally I'm hoping for a Daniel Laruso dance to "You're the Best", but I know it's more likely he'll be waltzing to Peter Cetera's Glory of Love with clips of Mr Myagi in the background the way Jennifer Grey played up Patrick Swayze's death.

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Kirstie will probably do a fox trot to "Everybody Knows Your Name" with a montage to Coach from Cheers. Although she probably wasn't even on the show with him at the same time. But they'll make it sad somehow.

BTW, Sugar Ray has both of those 2 beat in my book. He looks 20-30 but he's really 55. I kinda expect him to come out of retirement to box again after he gets back in shape from DWTS.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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I'm just depressed that Daniel-san is now a "Karate Old Fart" and certainly can't be referred to as a "Ute" by Joe Pesci anymore (Chris Kemoeatu and Stevenson Sylvester are our two Utes ).

Didn't Rebecca Howe always go crazy when they played Righteous Brothers music on Cheers?

[NC Steeler Fan]

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I am hoping that Hines does the Paso Doble to the
MNF theme!

I think it was Jason Taylor who danced to the MNF theme
when he was on there.

Either way, you know they'll work football props or uniforms
into one of Hines' dance numbers somehow. If it's not one
of the standard ballroom or latin dances, maybe they'll do
it for the Freestyle episode.

When Cheryl Burke and Nick Lachey (sp?) did their Freestyle
to "Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy" that went down as a classic
and I believe was voted #1 viewer choice of favorite dance of
all time on that show.

Either way, we all need to vote, vote and vote again for Hines.

If Cloris Leachman could last MUCH longer than anyone ever
should on that show, I know Steeler Nation can keep Hines on
longer than his dance talents may allow otherwise. I think he's
going to be a crowd favorite even in the non-football audience.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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I've yet to see a single episode of "Dancing with the Stars" but I know that Cloris Leachman killed at the Roast of Bob Saget.

"I'm not here to roast Bob Saget. I'm here to #&@% John Stamos!"

[hawaiiansteel]

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shouldn't Hines be having the surgery now in order to give the thumb as much time as possible to heal?


MEDICAL WATCH

WR Hines Ward has put off surgery to repair a dislocated thumb until after his competition on Dancing With the Stars.

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So he delayed surgery on a thumb, after already deciding to dance less than a month later on a surgically repaired knee?

Good to see #86 having his priorities straight.

[hawaiiansteel]

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Kym Johnson’s ‘DWTS’ Diary: Practicing for the Big Premiere With Hines!

March 14th, 2011 4:49 pm / Author: OK! Staff



Hi, everyone, and welcome to my OK! blog! Every week, I’ll be sharing with you all the behind the scenes stories as I train NFL wide receiver Hines Ward for this season’s Dancing With the Stars, trying to make the Pittsburgh Steelers pro look as cool in the ballroom as he does on football field for season 12!

This season, I’m dancing with Hines Ward (check us out at the Lakers game!). I didn’t really know how good he was! He’s incredible, I really like having an athlete for a partner. He’s an incredible athlete. He’s really intelligent, quick at picking up all the steps and choreography. Footwork is amazing, I’m sure that comes from football, he never has danced before but he gets up early for practicing, and is just perfect partner to have.

One weakness of his is that if we do the dance too many times, he starts over-analyzing things, but that’s the athlete in him. It’s great that he’s so concerned about what he’s doing. He’s very visual, and is good at correcting his mistakes. corrects mistakes.

Even though Hines is not a small guy, he’s so graceful, and a natural rhythm — and he has this amazing smile! As long as he smiles while he’s out there, he’ll be fine. He’s got the happy football player thing going on. He’s easy to teach, and he looks natural, when he’s out there he can enjoy it. Since the show starts next week, it’s a lot of practice. We have one day off a week. Five hours a day. He didn’t expect it to be so hard — he said it didn’t look as difficult from what he saw on TV! He’s already got a good grasp on faster dances like Foxtrot and the quickstep, and a natural rhythm for the jive and ChaCha.

It’s too early to tell right now who our biggest competition will be, we haven’t seen or heard of how anyone else is doing, but we’re happy with how he’s doing, you never know. I’m sure Chris Jericho could be good because he’s a wrestler and kind of independent in what he does.

I’m having fun going out with Hines in Atlanta, people have been showing us around and taking us to great restaurants, it’s not what you’d expect and it’s been a really fun time. We’ve had fun going to big Atlanta shopping malls and having a little bit of down time.

It was Hines’ birthday as well, so I made him rehearse on his birthday! But I felt kinda mean about it so I made him some cupcakes — for after we danced, of course! I didn’t know what to get him cause he’s got everything! So I ended up buying him gold cuff links to remind him of what the goal is. They could be like a good luck charm.

I think he’ll be wearing them during the first dance!

Until next week — and tune in on Monday, March 21 for the premiere!

Kym

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[flippy]

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Is Hines dating her now?

[RuthlessBurgher]

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Is Hines dating her now?

They are doing the vertical mambo, not the horizontal mambo.

[NC Steeler Fan]

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Is Hines dating her now?

Most of the "stars" and their instructors go out and attend
a lot of promotional activities for the show and just get out
in public together to do fun things that you'll see clips of later
during the season.

And, after enduring weeks of training in the 'dance' world of their instructors,
and feeling wholly inadequate at times, many of the stars can't wait to
take their instructors to their "world" to show them what their professional
life is like too.

I remember Emmitt Smith took Cheryl Burke to a Dallas game and
down on the field to get accustomed to what the 'office' was like for
a professional football player.

On the flip side, sometimes the instructors will take their star out to
something like a latin dance club so they can get more in tune with
that style of dance when it comes up in the show for them.

And, often they'll just show clips of the instructors and their partners
out in public hamming it up for votes. It's all just a way to get to know
some of these people outside of their public persona too.

There have been a few off camera flings though...so who knows?

[flippy]

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That article made it sound like she's his gf.

I think it was the shopping thing that made me think it. Men don't shop. There's an ulterior motive at play.

[hawaiiansteel]

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Hines Ward: Racism towards Asians isn't new

Tue, Mar 15
by Lynn Hoppes

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, who was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and an African-American father, isn't surprised that racism toward the Asian community still exists.



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Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers and his mother, Kim Young-Hee, at a function in Seoul, South Korea.

"I've been dealing with this my whole life. I still remember being called the Jackie Chan of football," Ward said from his home in Atlanta. "I can't believe people today still want to say negative things about another race. People need to be more sensitive."

The list of people taking negative shots toward the victims of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami is unfortunately growing.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck rationalized that the national disaster was God's work, saying, "I'll tell you this … there's a message being sent." Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA's New York Liberty agreed, tweeting and later apologizing for saying, "What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes." And comedian Gilbert Gottfried was fired Monday as the voice of the Aflac duck after tweeting, "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."

Ward just shakes his head thinking about the devasation and how the tragedy has affected so many lives.

"Imagine if those people had said the same thing about Haitians or African-Americans? All hell would break loose," Ward said. "But when it comes to the Asian community, it's easy to crack jokes because no one is coming out of the woodwork to defend those people."

Ward, who was appointed by President Obama to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, said people should think before speaking.

"I'm not going to be the next Martin Luther King and say what's right and what's wrong. Am I OK with it? No. There are just some things I can't control," Ward said. "I was just taught that you should treat someone like you want to be treated. I wish they would think about it if the shoe were on the other foot."

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Hines should be proud of the Asians. They have dealt with this situation with more dignity and resolve than I have ever seen from a group of people.

In New Orleans, we saw looting and danger in the streets post tragedy. American tragedies have more knuckleheads than anywhere else on the planet.

But in Japan, the people wait patiently. And they show amazing poise and respect for one another.

This is truly a model society that we should all strive to be more like.

The great thing about Hines' comments, is he's put a big chip on his shoulder prior to even a dancing competition. Sugar Ray and Danielsan better watch out. I now have a feeling Hines will do a crane kick in one of his routines to upstage Ralph Machichachio.

[RuthlessBurgher]

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I now have a feeling Hines will do a crane kick in one of his routines to upstage Ralph Machichachio.

Flippy needs to be more sensitive to the plight of childhood stars from the 80's.

[feltdizz]

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Hines Ward: Racism towards Asians isn't new

Tue, Mar 15
by Lynn Hoppes

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, who was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and an African-American father, isn't surprised that racism toward the Asian community still exists.



Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers and his mother, Kim Young-Hee, at a function in Seoul, South Korea.

"I've been dealing with this my whole life. I still remember being called the Jackie Chan of football," Ward said from his home in Atlanta. "I can't believe people today still want to say negative things about another race. People need to be more sensitive."

The list of people taking negative shots toward the victims of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami is unfortunately growing.

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck rationalized that the national disaster was God's work, saying, "I'll tell you this … there's a message being sent." Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA's New York Liberty agreed, tweeting and later apologizing for saying, "What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes." And comedian Gilbert Gottfried was fired Monday as the voice of the Aflac duck after tweeting, "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."

Ward just shakes his head thinking about the devasation and how the tragedy has affected so many lives.

"Imagine if those people had said the same thing about Haitians or African-Americans? All hell would break loose," Ward said. "But when it comes to the Asian community, it's easy to crack jokes because no one is coming out of the woodwork to defend those people."

Ward, who was appointed by President Obama to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, said people should think before speaking.

"I'm not going to be the next Martin Luther King and say what's right and what's wrong. Am I OK with it? No. There are just some things I can't control," Ward said. "I was just taught that you should treat someone like you want to be treated. I wish they would think about it if the shoe were on the other foot."

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I heard a talk radio guy saying it was too soon to joke about the Japan tsunami but said in time the jokes will be OK because we need humor to move on. Then he says 9/11 is still sensitive and he feels it should never be joked. He was honest in saying it was hypocritical but still...




I think people are so desperate for attention they will say anything. One thing I really hate is when people try to tell you what God's intentions are.