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Even ESPN - in their abbreviated evaluation of the team - said that the team isn't a lock to make the playoffs, let alone be a Super Bowl contender. The only reason that they have a legitimate chance of making the post-season is because they play in a weak division (sorry Seahawks fans) ... I mean, two games against the Cards and two games against the Hawks should mean at least 3-4 wins right there. Put the Rams in the AFC West (or AFC East) and they'd be looking at 7-9, or 8-8 at best.

It's funny, the first way that I ever learned about Idi Amin was in a porno that I had seen when I was really young. There was a scene that had a black guy having sex with a white girl in a bathroom, and she kept calling him Idi Amin. It seemed like such a random porno name that I did some research and found out who he really was. I wish I still had that movie ... I'd break it out now in memoriam for him.

With the way that they cut to Linda right away, I thought that she was the "diva" that Storm was going to talk dirty to, as well. (Nice production work, guys.) And prior to them cutting to Linda, I presumed that it was going to be Jazz that Storm would have to get sexy with. Just because that's the humor level that I've grown to expect from those great writers at the wwe.

If it was all going to be a swerve anyways, they should have done a double-turn and not done this angle the way they did it at all. They should have had Test fake his injury but then get attacked by Steiner - while JR and Lawler yell "Test is injured, what the hell is Steiner doing?!?" to help sell the acting job - and then have Stacy protect Test. Steiner throws her out of the way and continues to beat down an 'injured' Test until officials run him off. Steiner can say that he did it because he was protecting Stacy from Test. I think that I worded that whole thing like shit, but the end result is: Steiner is an angry, jealous heel and Test would come back after a few weeks of selling his injury as a 'face' and would be reunited with Stacy. (I use quotes around face because I know that Test wouldn't be cheered much without Stacy by his side). Yes, I recognize that this feud sucks and should just go away, but if you have two wastes of space like Steiner and Test, might as well waste them on each other.

I read an old Details magazine just a few weeks ago (don't ask me which one, it was in a pile at my girlfriends house) and in it there was an article about Giambi from back when he was on the A's. Most of the article was talking about how great it is in Oakland, and how he's able to be the person that he wants to be there, and how happy he is being that way - he even mentions the Yankees as a team that he's looking forward to beating, showing that you can win and still have a "fun" mentality to the game. You see him now looking 100% different, and have to wonder how much he really felt that way then, how happy he is now, or if the whole thing is just about the money. Fuck Giambi. He's a sell-out. It's one thing to just leave for money, it's another to change your look, and your view on the game, for money.

if my memory serves me correctly, it was prefaced with a woman cooing "ooh, Ricky, you're so ravishing" before the song actually started.

Because people are so focused on what his loss will mean to the Falcons, they're forgetting something even MORE important: what this means to the Springfield Isotopes (my fantasy football team). My back-up was Kerry Collins, so now, my STARTER is Kerry Collins. Vick can't get healthy quick enough to make me happy.

Laz, isn't hhh from NH though, and thus not a Masshole? Or was he from here and then moved North? And I'd put both John Cena and Kevin Sullivan as people that I'm proud to be from our great state.

At the risk of setting Jag0 off again, I have to admit that I have a hard time seeing Morley/Venis in a position above mid-carder. He's not great on the stick, and while he's not Steiner/Test level bad, he's nothing fantastic either. While I wouldn't call his matches average, I would call them unmemorable. I'll agree that a lot of that is due to the way he's used, but as I said in the Kanyon thread: people have got to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. If Morley went out there and thrilled people and got a big reaction, he wouldn't get as jerked around. But the honest answer is he comes out to relative apathy and puts on a decent - but not great - match. The most over he's ever been was during the attitude era, and that's because it was new and cutting edge to have a porn star gimmick. Well, it's no longer new, no longer cutting edge, and he's no longer over.

I voted other, with the other in question being Dragnet. Considering how much I hated it when it came out, it actually cracks me up now. P.A.G.A.N. (People Against Goodness and Niceness) = good stuff.

Underrated bands, punk rock division: Circle Jerks Government Issue Dag Nasty Flipper MDC

... which is why I'd rather watch a home run than clips from a Detroit-Tampa Bay game. Unless someone's holding the standings upside-down, a game between those two teams means precisely jack shit. Didn't the A's play the Red Sox? Aren't they in a little bit of a wild-card battle? I'll admit that I didn't watch enough Sportscenter to know when they showed the highlights of this game compared to the Bonds homers (or the Detroit-Tampa game you keep referencing, for that matter) but as the first post said that they used the Bonds homers as the lead story, I'm presuming that they either opened with it, or at least focused a ton of attention on it.

Kinda tough to get over when you are never on SD! don't you think? Even if it's just in dark matches or Velocity matches, or house shows for that matter, anytime that he appears in front of an audience he'd have a chance to get over. It starts off small, with pops from people in attendance, and then grows from there. If you're logic is "put him on Smackdown until he's over" then you're putting the cart before the horse. It should be "when he's over, put him on Smackdown".

I don't think it deserves it's own thread or anything, but I wanted to point out that last night I saw the band that 17 people voted as most overrated (Radiohead). Speaking as someone that's now seen 6 of the bands that are listed on the poll (Radiohead, U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Metallica, and Pink Floyd) I can comfortably say that Radiohead put on far and away the best show of the 6 and I actually have more respect for them as artists and musicians after seeing them live. (puts on flame-retardant suit and prepares for the onslaught)

Since baseball and Sportscenter like round numbers, I have one for them: 0 ... which is my interest in Bonds' homerun totals until he passes Mays, then Ruth, then Aaron, then Josh Gibson. And by then, Sportscenter will have me so sick of it all, there's a good chance that my interest will remain that nice, round number. Give me a break, games that have playoff implications outweigh a relatively meaningless home run.

CuJo makes more sense as a starter than Legace, especially for a Cup contender like the Wings. (Yeah, he lost in the first round but that was due to Giguere standing on his head than anything that CuJo did wrong.) If it's a team like Buffalo or Pittsburgh that isn't going to win it all anyways, then you go with the kid to give him more playing time. And I actually would keep CuJo over Hasek; who knows how much that year off will hurt is skills? In terms of who the B's would have to give up, the only name I can think of is Lapointe. He's due to make a ton of cash again this year, and I can't see that piece of shit Jacobs have 3 players making more than $5-million/year on the team. If not Lapointe, then maybe Samsonov, but if they traded a young Samsonov for a rent-a-goalie like CuJo, consider me PISSED.

DETROIT -- The Boston Bruins are interested in obtaining Red Wings goaltender Curtis Joseph, according to Boston's general manager. Mike O'Connell confirmed the team has approached Detroit about Joseph, who became expendable when Dominik Hasek last month decided to come out of retirement to rejoin the Red Wings. "I talked to Detroit on Friday. They said we'll make sure we stay in touch," O'Connell said during a conference call. Calling Joseph a potential "big piece" to the Bruins' goaltending situation, O'Connell said he didn't expect to hear back from Detroit "for another couple of weeks." Detroit signed Joseph, 36, last summer to a three-year, $24 million deal as Hasek's replacement. That contract includes a no-trade clause. Detroit General Manager Ken Holland has said he hopes to have a deal to trade Joseph done before training camp starts in September. Phone messages left with the Red Wings and Don Meehan, Joseph's agent, were not immediately returned. I can't see the B's paying ANYONE $8-million per year, but if they could pick up a goalie like CuJo, it'd certainly help their chances of making the playoffs, which I doubted would happen with Shields/Raycroft in net.

How the FUCK am I Jeff Hardy?!? (makes a note to redo the quiz later when I'm not so fucking tired)

Actually, golf and racing get a fair amount of coverage on ESPN. Soccer doesn't get much love in the States because Americans have made their statement about that sport ("we don't care"). But I sadly have to agree about hockey. Gets next to no coverage, gets next to no attention, is the forgotten major sport. And as a hockey fan, it's the reason why I no longer watch SportsCenter.

As a Pats fan, the loss of Tebucky Jones outweighs all three of the "Major Losses" that you mentioned. Hell, I barely noticed that Hayes, Buckley or Cleeland were gone. Hayes was a bust and wouldn't even be one of the top 3 or 4 receivers for the Pats, Buckley was a nickel back that was replaced by younger, faster players, and Cleeland was average at best. None of those three will be missed. But Tebucky might be (especially if either Milloy or Harrison gets injured)

The smart-ass in me wants to say "60 wrestlers, one ring but the ring is GIANT and twice the size as a normal ring!!!" but I'd be afraid that someone would take me seriously and tell me how stupid I am. Leave the Rumble as it is. But have each brand do their own, on their own PPV. Winner gets a title shot still, but not an Wrestlemania (I've always hated that angle)

It actually even has a safety net in place if the gimmick change doesn't work. Let's say Helms does give up his superhero gimmick to his little S.H.I.T. and becomes 'normal' again. If either the Helms push bombs or the Rosie as a superhero push bombs, then you just turn Rosie heel again, as a supervillian. Which would lead to Helms returning as the Hurricane to vanquish the evildoer. It's a shitty feud for someone like Helms (who I really dig as a wrestler) but it's better than the nothing he's doing now.

I thought it was Snow as well ... but they never really showed his face to give a definitive answer.

With hhh & Orton already in their alliance together, and Michaels & Nash being all buddy-buddy again last night, where does that leave Goldberg & Jericho? Answer: Outnumbered heading into the Elimination Chamber. So, I think that Jericho should approach Goldberg about joining forces and watching each others back. It would add a little intrigue going into the PPV, with people wondering if Goldberg can trust Jericho or not. Then, at the PPV, Jericho turns on Goldberg and further cements himself as a heel. Hey, I know it's a shitty idea and it's probably too late to build properly, but I think it would be a good way to actually give time, attention and added drama to ALL participants in the Elimination Chamber.

Kanyon hasn't impressed me since the Positively Kanyon gimmick. The "who betta than Kanyon" gimmick (and I use the term "gimmick" in a real loose definition of the term there) never impressed me. It didn't seem like heel heat, it seemed like borderline "who cares, get off my screen" heat. While I will grant you that the wwe majorly fucked up his return from his injury, if Kanyon was as charismatic as people here are claiming, he would have still gotten over. As an example: Hurricane - he turned chicken shit into chicken soup. So should Kanyon. I hope Mortis gets over, because I have no dislike for Kanyon as a human being and I'd like to see him suceed in a profession that he obviously really loves. But moreso I'd like to see Mortis suceed because I don't like the Kanyon character at all.