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    NBA warns teams about shrinking cap

    By Adrian Wojnarowski and Johnny Ludden, Yahoo! Sports

     

    The NBA sent out an ominous memo to its teams on the eve of the league’s trade deadline to outline dramatic projected drops in salary-cap and luxury-tax levels for the next two summers, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

     

    Because of rapidly declining revenues, the league office delivered a sobering warning to teams trying to free cap space for the historic free-agent class of 2010: Owners and executives will likely have to strip more payroll than initially planned.

     

    At a time when most of the league’s teams are trying to shed salary, these stark projections did nothing to encourage the absorbing of top talent and pricey contracts in the final hours leading up to Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET trade deadline.

     

    “They’re scaring the crap out of the people,” one Western Conference executive said Wednesday night. “There were already not enough buyers in this market, and after seeing that [memo], there are even less now.”

     

    One West GM predicted the market could become even more flooded after the season.

     

    “You’re not going to believe the number of players that will be out there [on the trade market],” he said. “But I don’t know how many teams will be willing to take them on.”

     

     

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    From what I hear no. Amata pretty much treats you the same in start if you killed him or not. The game pretty much gives you a pass if you did kill him because he gets replaced by another overseer. You just cant kill the second one.

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    Taken from caws.ws

     

    Legends of Wrestlemania Official Strategy Guide comes with a complete move lists for all 38 WWE Legends and 51 importable SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 Superstars. All tiers of opponents in Legend Killer Mode revealed, with tactics for conquering each one. Everything you need to recreate, rewrite, and redefine every classic match in WrestleMania Tour Mode

     

     

    Here's the link:

    http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDet...roduct_id=73451

     

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    Roster 4 is up now on ign.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd6VZrruXQo

     

    Greggie is the biggest douche ever.

     

    Undertaker doesn't have his coat.

     

    Paul Bearer has the urn and it is shown to give the Undertaker some kind of power special during the match.

     

    The Big Bossman doesn't have his Hard Time theme.

     

    Koko does come out with Frankie.

     

    Finkel hints at the Brainbusters in the WWE.

     

    Ric Flair has his robe.

     

    IGN did not show Snuka in any of the 4 roster videos. This leads to further speculation that there are hidden wrestlers in the game.

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    I was going to make a seperate post about the future of the PPV model, and how much longer it will be a successful entity.

     

    Programs like SopCast and TVUPlayer, among many others, have become pretty damn reliable for offering free streaming links for PPV programming, and the quality is pretty acceptable as well.

     

    We are still a couple of steps away from the mainstream being tech savvy enough to be able to transfer online content onto their television, but a lot of people already can do it(most people reading this probably).

     

    Once it becomes more of the norm less and less people are going to actually be purchasing PPV. I mean seriously is anyone else actually buying movies or porn on PPV? So right now that leaves live/special events, but like I said those can also be found on the internet for free.

     

    Then you have the other group who is perfectly willing to not buy the live event because it will be uploaded on the internet, minutes after it airs anyway.

     

    What is the future of the PPV model and how will it effect companies like WWE, UFC?

     

    I made a point in my thread that the WWE is going to have to do something to stop people from going to a justin tv and god knows what other sites are out there. I think WWE should charge 5-10 dollars to watch the event off of their website. They can add in ads in between the matches, on screen etc to offset the cost.

     

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    I am just curious as to what everybody thinks the future of TV and going to the Movies is going to be between the next 5 to 10 years.

     

    The age of having high speed internet and a HDTV has personally killed my live television watching and going to the movies every weekend. I am able to record tv shows with Windows Media Center and through various websites I am able to watch almost any tv show whenever I want to. I also have a monthly membership of Netflix which offers pretty much any DVD possible and thousands of hours of TV/Movies on their website for 10 dollars a month. Is the age of Cable TV going to be killed off within the next 5 years?

     

    What is going to happen to cable companies and the main 4 networks in the upcoming years? Are they going to have to put everything online and offer programming via their own website for each channel? It is at the point that every tv show that has been put out on dvd or has come out on tv is available online for anybody to watch whenever they want. The problem though is that it is on third party websites and Fox/NBC/HBO etc are missing out on the online viewing, advertising etc. A good majority of Americans are able to do it now and that number is only going to rise with Computers and HDTV's getting cheaper.

     

    What about Movies that are released in the Box Office? Every movie that is released is online within a day for someone to watch it without having to download it. Sometimes the quality is near dvd while other times the quality is bootleg but passable. Are movie companies going to have to start releasing movies on their website to gain lost viewers and advertising? Should it be in the form of ppv where the customer pays a 1 time fee and is able to watch the movie for the period of 3-5 hours? The drawbacks being that recording wouldn't be allowed.

     

    I believe that major Studies are going to have to open up their library and make it available online. This is due to the lost viewers that they are missing out on and the advertising money that the third party websites are bringing in. I remember reading that the production company who does the tv show The Mentalist had CBS take off full episodes of the show on CBS.com. This was due to the fact that they didn't want it hurting DVD sales down the road. I laughed because all one has to do is google The Mentalist and they will find 10-20 websites all with full episodes online.

     

    One last thing. What should the WWE do regarding their live ppv's? Should they offer the ppv online after it has ended for a small fee? I cant picture anybody paying full price for it online when it is available on numerous websites live for free. My thinking is if they have it online after the show for a 5-10 dollar fee it would attract more purchases and cut down on the thousands of people on justin tv and numerous other sites. The drawback being that it would cut back on the people who watch the event live for the full price. The main thing though is if the person is willing to buy a replay for a cheaper price they are subjecting themselves to spoilers and a later timeslot.

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    How can you knock Tru Calling? I loved that show and the whole Eliza vrs Jason Priestly aspect on the show.

     

     

    Tru calling only got interesting after Jason Priestly showed up. But the first half of that season was dreadful. It's a shame because they cancelled it just as it was getting good and going into the reasons Tru had her powers and what it meant for the universe and all that. If it hard started out like that, it might have done a lot better.

     

     

    The rumor is that her bf on the show (the 30 year old who plays a teenager in every movie) was going to turn into a serial killer and become aware of how Tru saved him when he was meant for death. That was supposed to play for the rest of season 2 before the show got the ax. They were going to play into the whole morality of if it was the right thing to do for Tru to save people and the impact that these people would have on the world by being kept alive.

     

    My favorite episode is the one with the girl who has cancer and decides to jump off the tower.

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    I currently do mycokerewards.com for the hell of it. My only problem though is that the prizes and the sweepstakes flat out suck. I was just looking at the main page and a coke folding beach chair is like 6000 points. You get 3 points for each coke cap you redeem for either a 20 oz or 2 liter bottle. That comes out to you buying over $2000 dollars worth of Coca Cola. Do they honestly think that someone is going to waste their points on flat out crap? I am just going to save mine for when they do sweepstakes for 360's or Best Buy giftcards.

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