January 2025 Year In Review

 2026 will be here before you know it so what better time for a year in review. This is something I do every year and it's fun looking back at what has transpired the past 12 months. I used to do the full year in one extremely long report but I have found that people like a summary rather than a thesis. I will tell you what went down and I will do it one month at a time throughout the rest of this month. These events are not in chronological order but they did occur in the month I'm writing about in this case...

January

Jayden Daniels has a historic rookie season as QB of the Washington Commanders, he could've went legend had the Commanders defeated the Eagles and went to the Superbowl but he made Washington relevant again.

Khloe Kardashian launches a podcast with her brother in law Scott Disick. We don't need anymore podcast but if she wanted instant ratings she should've invited her ex-husband Lamar Odom as a guest? I'd pay to hear that...

Ohio State wins the first 12 team college football playoff. The Buckeyes dominated Notre Dame for most of the Championship game. Ohio having four 1000 yard performers on the team may have helped a little.

Jimmy Butler was trying to complain and pout his way out of Miami. "I want to see me getting my joy back playing basketball" will go down in infamy. Dude, you get your joy every Tuesday when they hand you a game check.

Speaking of infamous...a woman was scammed for $800,000 when someone used AI to create images of Brad Pitt in the hospital. She apparently sent "Brad" money to help with medical expenses. 

Cooper Flagg was nearing the end of his incredible collegiate career with Duke averaging 25.4 point per game.

Last Christmas during the Beyonce Bowl, yes that was a real event, she announced that she would have a huge announcement on Jan 14...it never happened due to the wildfire situation that would break out.

Speaking of pop singers, Katy Perry decided to donate a portion of the sales of her new album '143' to the victims of the wildfires. Unfortunately, the album didn't sell all that well or have much interest as it is considered a flop.

Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia are voted into the Hall of Fame, they would go on to be inducted later in the year. CC got 86% of the votes needed but Ichiro nearly went unanimous...one dork errr one voter didn't pick him as a first ballot hall of famer and that voter knows where they can go. 

Finally, NY Giants GM Joe Schoen creates a monster when he decides to pay Daniel Jones and trade Saquon Barkley to the Eagles. All Saquon did was rush for over 2000 yards averaging 180 rushing yards per game...he also lead the Eagles to the Superbowl against the Chiefs...more on that in the month of February.