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WWE News: Luther, RVD, XFL, More RVD being de-pushed? - Kurt Angle has been pushing WWE to give Luther Reigns a bigger push. He used his power to get Luther a win over Rob Van Dam on the second Tokyo show last week. Reigns is one of Angle's associates. [PWInsider.com] - It appears that WWE is planning to continue RVD's de-push. He has worked Velocity two straight weeks and it looks like his role will be reduced. He has signed a new deal so its not a situation where WWE is trying to get him to sign a new contract. [PWInsider.com] - WWE continues to try and cut back on how much "inside" content makes its way out through WWE.com. This could lead to an even more reduced presence for Byte This. [PWInsider.com] - The XFL came in at the #2 biggest flop in sports history on ESPN's recent list of the 25 biggest sports flops in the last 25 years. - Weekend ratings saw Velocity do a 0.5, Experience do a 0.5, and Heat do a 1.2. [PWTorch.com]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5410738/ In radio address, president says ‘our nation has no other choice’The Associated Press Updated: 10:34 a.m. ET July 10, 2004WASHINGTON - President Bush says legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization and that a constitutional amendment is needed to protect it. A few activist judges and local officials have taken it on themselves to change the meaning of marriage, Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. Leading the chorus of support for an amendment, Bush said, “If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract, and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost and the institution is weakened.” Opening of debate His remarks follow the opening of Senate debate Friday on a constitutional amendment effectively banning gay marriage. Reflecting the election-year sensitivity of the issue, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Republicans are using the constitutional amendment as a bulletin board for campaign sloganeering. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, accused Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of holding inconsistent positions. Kerry and running mate Sen. John Edwards oppose gay marriage, but support civil unions. Bush singled out Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court, which called marriage an evolving paradigm. “That sends a message to the next generation that marriage has no enduring meaning, and that ages of moral teaching and human experience have nothing to teach us about this institution,” he said. Bush: ‘Our nation has no other choice’ The president urged the House and Senate to send to the states for ratification an amendment that defines marriage in the United States as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife. Senate Democrats signaled they will not throw barriers in front of the resolution, paving the way for a vote on the amendment as early as next Wednesday. A constitutional amendment should never be undertaken lightly, Bush said, “yet to defend marriage, our nation has no other choice.” The vote puts some Democrats and Republicans in a difficult position. One senator acknowledged the political risk in trying to walk a line supporting both traditional marriage and gay rights. “I intend to be your champion on many issues in the future, if you want me,” Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., said in remarks directed at gay and lesbian voters. Smith is a leader in efforts to make attacks against homosexuals a federal hate crime. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

WWE Cancels Tonight's House Show Also cancels future show.... WWE has canceled tonight's scheduled house show in Johnstown, PA. The August 6th house show in Poughkeepsie, NY has also been canceled. It appears that these shows were canceled due to low ticket sales and projected low ticket sales. Credit: PWInsider.com

Didn't the Hardyz also say something about Michael Hayes that pissed him off. Which is why Hayes is so against Matt Hardy backstage.

Wouldn't shock me if they did.

- RAW did a 3.7 rating this week off two hours of 3.7. The highest rated segment was a 4.1 for the overrun. The RAW Diva Search segment did a 4.0. Credit: PWInsider.com

Former WCW star Kimberly is now appearing in a movie based on a DC Comic series. Check it out http://theforce.net/theater/nonsw/grayson/

My god it seems like Chyna was so fucking wasted it's not even funny but, REALLY sad.

I have friends that want to see this movie. Why? "Because it's Halle Berry man." She's good looking but, not enough to see that movie.

Because you just have to have alcohol. But, like others have said I don't think they should get into any trouble for this. If anything it's the dumbass guards that were on duty they should be going to jail for this shit.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...oliceacademy_dc All I have to say is that they better get Steve Guttenberg or else. Cause he help made the series and once he left them they went to shit.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5469808/?GT1=4244 A brew too far Four Tennessee inmates go on beer run, charged with escape ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - The party’s over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail’s doors were accidentally left unlocked. The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail. The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said. Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the booze ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store. Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all. “I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn’t be charged with escape,” Rimer said, “but they were wrong.” The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits to go around. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_sho...l?article=41038 Another View: Parents, think twice about letting your children play football By CHRIS NOWINSKI Guest Commentary EVERY YEAR, around 1.5 million children and teenagers kick-off their school years as part of youth or high school football team. Another 75,000 young people will participate in college football. Every one of these young, vibrant Americans will be exposing themselves to the risk of suffering multiple concussions. Every concussion and every impact to the head may lead to some degree of long-term brain damage, the severity of which each of these young people may only realize 10, 20, or 50 years later. I have a new perspective on the game of football. At 25, I may now be forced to retire from professional wrestling because of brain damage caused by the cumulative effects of multiple concussions over my life. As part of a research project I’ve undertaken to understand what doctors call post-concussion syndrome, I have learned that my problem started in football, and that the following information needs to be shared with everyone. Most concerned parents are comforted by the belief that a helmet will protect their child’s brain. This is a mistake. The design of football helmets and face masks has evolved to remove the incentive not to use the head as a battering ram. Only now are we learning the consequences. In the last year two major studies, one by the NFL and one at Virginia Tech, have revealed the true severity of football impacts. They found that a struck player’s head may experience forces more than 130 times the force of gravity. The average player may take 50 shots to the head averaging 40 times the force of gravity in every game, and over the course of an entire season, the number of impacts reaches a few thousand. The head can experience a change in velocity of 20 miles per hour in an instant, which leads to forces similar to severe automobile accidents. Many concussion-producing hits have enough force to have cracked the skull had there been no helmet. Because athletes have continued to get bigger, stronger and faster, and because more impacts now involve the “protected” head, there is little reason to believe football players at every level are not suffering more concussions than ever before. A study published in the Journal of Child Neurology in 2001 found that around half of all football players at the high school level suffer at least one concussion a season, with an average of more than three. Two other studies published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine in 2000 and 2002 confirm similar incidence rates at the college and professional levels. The need to understand the consequences of these repetitive head injuries has never been more critical. Medical science is only beginning to understand links between multiple concussions and increased risk for afflictions like Alzheimer’s disease, depression, memory loss, cognitive impairment and dementia. As well, there is evidence from studies on boxers proving that repeated head impacts can, over time, lead to brain damage despite those impacts never having caused a single concussion. Although there have been few attempts to quantify the risk, the initial research is alarming. One large study of former football players by the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes found that 20 percent of those with more than only three lifetime concussions suffered from depression, and 17 percent reported memory problems that for many of them may be an early indication of Alzheimer’s disease. As the concussion problem continues to grow, we need to prepare for a future with hundreds of thousands of young men who have 10 or 20 lifetime concussions from football. Parents should consider that younger players are more prone to getting concussions and more severe brain damage from concussions than older players. The damage caused by concussions in children theoretically impairs the child’s ability to reach their full cognitive potential, inhibiting their ability to learn and classroom performance, and can cause personality changes, behavioral, emotional, and attention deficit disorders, and may accelerate the natural process of brain degeneration when they get older. This fall, thousands of American parents will face a child begging to be allowed to play football. If you truly believe that the game is not for your child, stand firm. Chris Nowinski was a starting defensive tackle at Harvard University and currently is a World Wrestling Entertainment star. Readers may write him at 219 Main Street, No. 2, Everett, Mass. 02149 or e-mail him at [email protected]

Obviously it sucked if you were there live, it might of brought in a few more viewers flipping channels on TV though. Or maybe the reason they watched is they know that a big train wreck was going to happen. Seeing how bad the crowd booed the divas kept me from changing the channel. And Eric going off on them.

I think it's to late for Booker ever since he was beaten by the Grand Wizard HHH. It reallys makes me mad is that they broke up the very fun and successful BookDust so Booker can job in the (almost) race angle. As for RVD I still think can be saved. But, like others have said, he'll have to change his style and wrestle WWE style, which would more or less kill his fan support.

Which means next week on RAW after the 60-minute iron man match the WWE will have a 60-minute iron man Diva Search. Which means 60 minutes of the divas doing whatever.

So did anyone else watch the show?

Ok just finished watching it. And am I the only one that thought that the white mom was a spoiled bitch? First you just know she didn't do anything around the house or work a job. And the way she acted when she first saw Mr. Biggins and said something like "He looks like you people" makes me think the only time she sees black people is when they are cleaning her home. Then she didn't feel like cooking or cleaning and wanted to just go out to eat and she just keeped on using the blowdrying when it keep blowing a circut.

I was thinking they could do it like this. You know how shows like 24 and Nip/Tuck do on the season premires with the show being commercial free and have one sponsor for that show. Like Ford did for 24 and XM radio did for Nip/Tuck. It could be like the ironman match is sponsored by Ford and it is because of them the WWE can bring you fans the ironman match commercial free.

Yeah it is. But, there far better ways to do it that are not so fucking dumb and boring.

God I hate this shit.

This is TO funny the crowd is just BOOING the fuck out of the ladies.

Just saw an ad for tonight's RAW and guess what the main thing it was about. Yep the Diva Search.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...arvel_lawsuit_2 Marvel Sues Disney Over Comic Royalties Fri Jul 16, 7:50 PM ET By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Marvel Enterprises Inc., creators of such comic book superheroes as "Spider-Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" is suing The Walt Disney Co. in a royalty dispute over animation programs aired on Disney's ABC Family channel. Marvel is asking for nearly $55 million in compensatory damages, interest and other fees it says it is owed for royalties generated by made-for-television episodes of "Spider-Man," "X-Men" and "The Incredible Hulk." The agreements at issue in the lawsuit, filed late Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, were made before Disney acquired Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. The lawsuit claims Disney has not kept accurate records of royalties due under those inherited agreements. Disney spokesman John Spelich said the company had not yet seen the lawsuit and could not comment. Episodes of all three shows were made in the late 1990s and Disney inherited the right to air them and sell the shows on home video and into foreign markets, the lawsuit claims. Marvel claims it is owed millions of dollars in royalties, including from the licensing of music associated with the shows. It also claims Disney failed to aggressively market the shows, especially in light of the popularity the three titles have gained from the successful theatrical movies made by other studios. "Indeed, although Disney is the heir to these important rights, it has treated these profitable properties as second rate," the lawsuit states. The lawsuit, which claims $54.8 million in total damages, does acknowledge that Disney did pay some disputed royalties when asked.

That was the period in late '97 when Wright was managed by Debra and helping her battle ex-hubby Steve McMichael. For a brief time she aided Jeff Jarrett, Wright, Eddie Guerrero, and Bill Goldberg, which made for a decent stable of wrestlers, IMO. Yeah wasn't that the plan. That Debra was going to create a stable with Eddie, Wright, Jarrett, and Goldberg but, for whatever reason it never got off the ground. I guess part of the reason was when WCW decided to really push Goldberg and make him undefeated.