Hogan Made Wrestling

Did anyone see the review of this one on Ebert and Roeper this weekend? It was remarkable in its blandness. Roeper: It had a ton of special effects and not much of a plot. Thumbs down. Ebert: The special effects were really cool. Thumbs up.

Umm, that was in 1968. Keri Strug winning the gold medal for the Women's Gymnastics team, and Greg Louganias hitting his head, and than winning the gold medal will make the list for olympic moments. Oh, and the Dream Team will make the list has well. Oh sorry, I forgot about the 25 years thing.

Uhh, Canada beat the USA in 1998, and didn't play them in the medal round. The Czech Republic eliminated the USA that year. The Czech Republic's win in those Olympics was probably the most compelling story of any major international hockey tournament in the last decade or so.

ESPN has already previously picked the Miracle on Ice as the #1 sporting moment of the 20th century, a few years ago at the ESPY awards. Speaking of which, Bob Beamon's super-jump has got to make that list somewhere.

This game is starting to heat up.

That's going in my sig immediately

I'm not surprised, and neither are you. It would have been nice for them to let the body grow cold, at least, but really, I expected nothing so generous from those like them. I'm surprised no one has seriously tried something like "Bush must be pissed off that he died now and not right before the election" although I'm sure that one will be coming sooner or later.

Shit I hadn't heard that one before.

Since it's ESPN it will probably all be American stuff and mostly NFL/MLB/NBA along with some US Olympic moments like Miracle on Ice. You might see the Tour de France on there, and one moment that I would say is a darkhorse to get on is Hermann Maier's super-crash from the 1998 Olympic downhill, which is probably the most famous moment of those Olympics and a pretty well-known visual (got the cover of SI, for instance).

Well, just like WW II, the world is oblivious to how bad the problem is. The few who took Hitler seriously early on were ignored, also. -=Mike And just like World War II, the League of Nations / UN sit around with their collective thumbs up their asses until forced into action. You could substitute "US" for "UN" in that statement quite easily with respect to WW2.

2001: A Space Odyssey The African Queen The Usual Suspects Vertigo Raging Bull Once Upon A Time in America Se7en Rocky Dr. Strangelove Duck Soup Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Scarface Amadeus Jaws the Godfather Goodfellas Taxi Driver American Beauty The Quiet Man Heat LA Confidential Lord of The Rings: Return of the King Breakfast At Tiffany's Citizen Kane American History X The Shawshank Redemption Casablanca Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Cool Hand Luke Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Life Is Beautiful The Godfather Part II

The Crazy Mexican: -take a shot of tequila -snort a line of salt -squirt a wedge of lime into your eye

Tenet was clearly going to end up being one of the fall guys for the bi-partisan whitewash known as the 9-11 Commission, whose purprose seems to be to ensure that no one with an R or D next to their name takes the fall.

Can't Padilla just be deported to Afghanistan or whatnot? It's not like he would last long even if set free over there.

It was better than FF7 at any rate. Oh, and Hogan's special attack was totally awesome.

OK fair enough. Frankly, I've wondered why guys like Clarett unsatisfied with the draconian NCAA system don't try out the CFL. The quality is similar to NCAA div. I, maybe a bit worse, and they get paid a salary and don't have to worry about picking up some loose change only to have the NCAA swoop in and claim it was dropped by a booster. Plus if they don't care about going to school they can spend their non-football time in the gym or something.

So the solution to guys getting out early on their sentences is to kill them? Why go for the most extreme option instead of doing the logical thing and simply toughening up the law so that a life sentence includes no possibility of parole.

A-Rod hit .358 at the age of 20, in 1996. Should he have been forced to spend more time in AAA because he was too young? Is A-Rod a regularly skilled player or the exception? 1 A-Rod isn't worth 200 Adrian Beltres. There is no other option in the NFL. It is worth keeping one player or a handful of other players in the minors for a whole extra year, then allowing hundreds into MLB early. The point is there should be an option. Pro sports should pay for their own developmental systems. It shouldn't be the responsibility of universities to lower their academic standards to admit kids who don't really even want to be there and are getting an "education" (taking the absolute easiest courses possible) just so they can play sports to prepare for their real career. People complain about how high school kids going to the NBA "hurts" NCCA basketball, as if that should warrant any consideration. It seems that these leagues want to keep their sweetheart deal that lets them develop players at no expense, and have brainwashed the general public into believing that's the only way possible, and that these players "owe" it to them to play for their favorite college sports teams.

It's totally unnecessary and is simply there to satisfy the most bloodthirty and debase human emotions. It's also become yet another vehicle for both the lawyers to get rich and the politicians to get facetime. Studies have shown that it is cheaper to house an inmate for life than to pay the costs of a capital case, which with appeals may drag out over several years and result in massive lawyer's fees.

Sad that people hate the Lakers so much they will be cheering for them to lose to this horrid anti-basketball.

I wonder if next week could be another record breaker. Could top 3 go something like: 1. Harry Potter 3 90 million 2. Shrek 2 45 million 3. Day After Tomorrow 35 million or are those projections too high? That would be 170 million for the top 3 movies alone.

It's really more of a reject league than a developmental league. The point is mostly to give failed players another kick at the can (Lawrence Phillips types), or sometimes to develop long-term projects.

When I lived in Vancouver-Burnaby I voted for Svend Robinson, I'm not sure who I'll be voting for this time although it probably doesn't matter since up here the conservatives will win handily. It's funny that at one time it looked like Martin could take 200+ seats and now he will be lucky to end up with a majority government. The big question now is if he wins a minority who will he form a coalition with?

And so they picked... Kerry? What am I missing? Nobody said the left made good choices. See Mondale, Walter Dukakis, Michael Carter, Jimmy -=Mike Now to be fair, Jimmy Carter did win an election. You should have added McGovern, George instead.

Maybe one day the NFL and NBA will actually have to *gasp* spend some money on a developmental system like MLB and the NHL.