MrRant

It was all over Foxsports.com . ESPN is just... biased.

I choose indifference.

Wasn't Matt LeBlanc in that? Yeah. He was Al's friend Charlie's son. Remember the episode where Al is seeking out that "Hmm Hmm Hiiiiiim" song? I'm pretty sure that was the actual spinoff ep. Actually it was a different episode where Al comes back and steals Charlies TV. I believe that episode was Top of The Heap.

I was going to make a comment.... but nothing I could say could hurt you about where you live as much as what you just posted.

God that show was horrid. So was the spinoff with the college kids and the radio with what's her name from Felicity.

I believe it was a Dallas newspaper.

I'm sure there is some high school junior or senior that will do your homework for you for a case of beer.... assuming you are old enough to buy beer.

Nothing I didn't know already. But fun facts either way.

New kid in town NWA-TNA holding its own By Scott Williams The Daily News Published October 12, 2003 The deaths of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling in 2001 left World Wrestling Entertainment as the only major wrestling powerhouse in the United States. In summer 2002, a new kid showed up to the national wrestling dance when NWA-TNA debuted its bold plan for marketing mat action to the masses in a new way. Instead of the WWE’s (and WCW’s, during its lifespan) time-proven formula of using hourly free TV shows to sell its pay-per-view matches, TNA would put on weekly pay-per-views at a much lower price than the monthly WWE offerings. When the company started, there were a few questions. Did “TNA” really stand for “Total Nonstop Action,” or was it just a vulgar acronym? Was shlock-wrestling writer Vince Russo’s involvement going to allow TNA to be any kind of real alternative to the often-raunchy WWE? Would the company be able to come up with a formula that would make enough people order a weekly $9.95 pay-per-view to make it a profitable venture? To its credit, TNA has tried to create its own niche by making smaller, more dynamic wrestlers a featured aspect of their shows. The smaller guys, who would never get treated as much more than cannon fodder in WWE, really got a chance to shine in TNA’s “X Division.” TNA has not been without its problems. Russo-driven efforts to shock viewers at the expense of presenting compelling feuds that make sense have hurt, as have the portrayal of WWE castoffs as world-beaters in TNA (a notable exception being Raven, who has been used better in TNA than at any time since his original ECW stint, which ended in 1997). However, the biggest obstacle to TNA prospering has been that its only exposure to fans has been on the very weekly shows it seeks to sell. The company does have a weekly, free, syndicated show airing on some stations, but the market penetration is minimal. Recently, TNA produced a one-cent pay-per-view designed to introduce viewers to the company and its stars, but with no way to advertise the show, I’d doubt that many checked it out who hadn’t already seen at least one show. More recently, TNA has taken steps to combat its problems. Move No. 1 was securing a timeslot for a weekly pre-pay-per-view show. The more viewers get a taste for free, the more they might see something that could entice them to buy. No. 2 was the apparent phasing out of Russo, in favor of booker Dutch Mantel. The booking of Mantel, profiled in this column a few weeks back, is steady, somewhat predictable and has made Puerto Rico’s IWA into one of the most successful wrestling companies in the world. No. 3 might have been the biggie, at least in terms of drawing in an audience that does not already know about TNA. The company signed Hulk Hogan, one of the top pay-per-view wrestling draws ever, to a one-match deal. Hogan, estranged for months now from WWE and boss Vince McMahon, will appear on some TNA shows in the next few weeks to set up a match with Jeff Jarrett. The match is set for a late-November pay-per-view to be held on a Sunday night, as opposed to the group’s regular 7 p.m. (U.S. central time). The keys to TNA’s success could be in whether they deliver a strong enough show that people who ordered to see Hogan would order another show without him, and whether they can use Hogan’s marketable image to let currently unaware people know about the show. I hear from a lot of wrestling fans who bemoan the lack of an alternative to the garish, cartoonish and sometimes-vulgar WWE. Well, your alternative airs every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Speaking of fans I hear from, we’ll have some reader comments next week, so feel free to e-mail any comment or question about wrestling to the e-mail address below. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I will at least toss you a pithy reply. Scott E. Williams is a Daily News reporter and a longtime wrestling fan. His e-mail address is [email protected].

Me? Insufferable? Depends on the day.

Part of me wants the Sox to win just to see what Steinbrenner does.

I can see this working as Martin would be a good replacement for Peter Sellers and it makes sense.

How hard is it to come up with an original sci-fi show? Really? It's not that hard.

Monkeys with brain implants were trained to move a robot arm with their thoughts, a key advance by researchers who hope one day to allow paralyzed people to perform similar tasks. A series of electrodes containing tiny wires were implanted about a millimeter deep into the brains of two monkeys. A computer then recorded signals produced by the monkeys' brains as they manipulated a joystick controlling the robotic arm in exchange for a reward — sips of juice. The joystick was later unplugged and the arm, which was in a separate room, was controlled directly by the brain signals coming from the implants. The monkeys eventually stopped using the joystick, as if they knew their brains were controlling the robot arm, Duke University researcher Miguel Nicolelis said. "Three of us were in the room watching the monkey late at night, and all of sudden the monkey just dropped the joystick and started playing the game ... the monkey just got it that she didn't need to move the joystick," Nicolelis said. "We couldn't believe it, it was almost like the monkey was telling us, `Believe me, I can do it.' ... She was very happy; she was very enthused about the fact she could do it." The second monkey also stopped using the joystick. The work was reported Monday in the first edition of the journal PLoS Biology, a free, peer-reviewed scientific journal published online by the Public Library of Science. The Duke researchers had previously wired the brains of monkeys to allow a robotic arm to mimic motions made by the monkeys when using a joystick or reaching for food. Humans have already been implanted with a similar device that allows them to control the movement of a cursor on a computer screen through their thoughts. The implant used in the monkey work, however, is smaller and the task accomplished was more complex. The Duke researchers have now moved onto researching similar implants in humans, and Nicolelis said he is more optimistic about the prospects for use in humans. "It could do a lot of things, wheelchairs, computers, prosthetic arms, perhaps their own arms," Nicolelis said. Appliances, remote objects in other locations in the house and robots all could be controlled, he said. "It really opens the possibilities, and it reduces the amount of time. Previously, I had thought it might be five to 10 years before we could apply this to humans. I'm getting more optimistic now, I think in a couple of years we may be doing the real clinical trials." The implants remained in the Duke monkeys for 2 1/2 years showing they can be used for extended period. Over time, the monkeys' brains adapted to treat the robotic arm as if it was their own limb, Nicolelis said.

*Puts on the Elmer Fudd hat and blows all you wabbits and ducks away*

Most people do it on purpose. I want to kill them. ALL OF THEM.

Cubs, Sox and Yankess are big markets. The possibility of a Cubs vs. Sox WS is interesting to even casual fans. The Marlins represent a good story.

Tyler seems to lead a lame life.

I need St. Louis to lose to improve the Hawks position.

At least this season.

For the second time in three weeks, a network NFL pregame show became the forum for some controversial remarks — and this time Rush Limbaugh had nothing to do with them. Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp, unhappy that the NFL office had warned him against a repeat of his Monday night skip through the Indianapolis Colts' pregame stretching line, blasted the league and Washington Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' "The NFL Today." "He got what he wanted," Sapp said of Arrington, who had threatened retaliation if the Bucs' outspoken nine-year veteran tried to do the same before Sunday's game against the Redskins. "He snitched and slave master come down. That's all that is. ... Stop a man from doing something that he's been doing for nine years? "And so now there's a rule against me. Thanks. I knew (the league) was gonna do what they did because they've been notoriously against Sapp. Like I said before, it's a slave system. Make no mistake about it, slave master say you can't do it, don't do it. They'll make an example out of you." Sapp also had a few choice words for the NFL officiating crews that now are being asked to police teams' pregame drills. "You gonna tell me these moonlighting officials are going to come out 45 minutes before the game and get a feel for the game?" he asked. "In pregame? I just want to know why people are moonlighting on another man's profession? Every other profession has full-time referees. That's all they do is ref games." Limbaugh resigned his commentator's job with ESPN two weeks ago because of the controversy over his remarks that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed. Sapp's comments on that also had racial overtones. "I'm shocked that Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin just sat there and let this roll across their faces and didn't say anything,'' he said. "Do we not have anybody that understands that there's way more scrubs in this game that are Anglos than there are black ones that are being pumped up?" CBS analysts Deion Sanders and Boomer Esiason both took issue with some of Sapp's comments Sunday. "I was right with Warren Sapp all the way except for the slave-master stuff," Sanders said. "Leave it alone. That's not an issue." Added Esiason: "I'm glad to hear that you said some of his comments were totally off-base. This is the NFL. We all play with rules. We all follow the rules. If he thinks he is singled out for whatever reason, I think he is incorrect." Sapp did make contact with an official while skipping onto the field before Sunday's game, but he avoided the Redskins' stretching line and Arrington. "I didn't need to run through their stretch," Sapp said after the Bucs' 35-13 win. "They've got a whole 53-man squad that we were coming after. That's what we were after, the game. It wasn't the pregame." ----------------------------------------------------------- Some people just need to shut up.

You don't know where Puerto Rico IS? That helps your credibility.

So... it's not off the hizzle?

I don't really even know him..... but I despise 1inch.

The NO MAAM 11-5-1 .676 23 2nd place. Yeah bitches. Raza is next.