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ST. LOUIS -- The wife of benched St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner sounded off again Monday, saying in a radio interview that a trade would be welcomed after the season if the situation stayed the same. Last season, Brenda Warner called a radio show to complain that she -- and not coach Mike Martz -- had suggested that the two-time MVP have his injured hand X-rayed. The X-ray revealed a broken hand that Warner had been playing with. On Monday, Brenda Warner told "Steve and D.C." on The Mall that her husband wouldn't mind changing teams. "Probably, just from the point that we want to play, he wants to play, plain and simple," Brenda Warner said. "So, if he's not going to play here, then he wants to play somewhere. "You just want to be wanted, like anybody, whether you're a D.J. or whatever you do." Marc Bulger has started ahead of Warner the last two weeks, although Martz said at the time of the change that it wasn't necessarily permanent. Brenda Warner reiterated that a new city would be fine if her husband doesn't get his starting job back. "So you know what?" Brenda Warner said. "We're open for anything. We've always said we trust God in everything that happens for us. This is one of the things that we've got, again, to put our trust in Him and know that He'll take care of us." Kurt Warner told TV station KSDK, for whom he's paid for weekly interviews, that he's beginning to think about life after the Rams. "I'm starting to imagine it a little more every day, I think," Warner said. "It's not something I think about often, it's not something I want to transpire. "But with the way it looks like ... the direction of this team is going, it's a distinct possibility." Last December, Brenda Warner called KFNS to complain her husband had his broken hand X-rayed at her suggestion. "Martz had nothing to do with it," Brenda Warner said then. "All week long I said, 'Kurt, I'm a nurse, you should go get it X-rayed.' The doctors never once said he should get an X-ray. (They) said, 'No, it's only bruised."'

9-4 going into tonight.

Added Shoot The Messenger and HijackTHIS.

Yeah $800 bucks is quite the price. Plus in a year that price with SKYROCKET.

I wonder if they are going to do this to the other series.

I don't think Angle-Slamming or making a fetus tap out is an appropriate form of abortion.

Red Sox vs. Cubs would be great. Just imagine the fan suicides that would happen when one of the teams lost.

I'd buy the original WM shirt. Nostalgia baby.

If I ever get around to finishing my review of Meet The Feebles you will see my once again put all the TSM hacks to shame. Except Dames... he umm... rules and stuff.

White Sox Fire Manuel. Hargrove Fired by Balitmore.

I hope Philly does well. Company pride baby~!

Someone needs to show up at a TV taping with a sign pointing at them that says "Clap Monkey".

Yeah but it is a Best Of Set. I'm wary of those because you wait 6 months and the season sets start coming.

Sherlock Holmes' nemesis is representin'.

I think that is more of a "cappin' someone" song then a beating someone song.

But WHO shot Mr. Burns? WHO DAMMIT?!

Not cheap enough.

The critic was only on for what? 2 seasons?

Tyler's bothers me.

Adolf Jingus is pretty sweet.

And yet no one worries that I may turn them in for cable theft etc.

Everybody still active in the league? I hope for it to be relatively competitive. I haven't done much with my team just because I want to see how the first 5-10 games of the season go. And I still haven't found a way to make the Shizzle someone else's team. If I can't I will play it like a normal team as much as possible and will not be allowed to trade inbetween the Shizzle and the NO MA'AM.

NM

LONDON - The Time Lord and his Tardis are coming back. A new series of the cult sci-fi TV series "Doctor Who" is in the works and will be on the screen within two years, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Friday. Details of who will play Doctor Who, the dashing Time Lord who uses a blue phone box-style device called the Tardis to travel through time, are a secret. "Doctor Who is one of the BBC's most exciting and original characters. He's had a rest and now it's time to bring him back," said Russell T. Davies, writer of the new series who is also responsible for hit TV dramas such as Channel 4's "Queer as Folk." "I grew up watching Doctor Who and hiding behind the sofa like so many others. The new series will be fun, exciting, contemporary and scary. "Although only in the early stages of development I'm aiming to write a full-blooded drama which embraces the Doctor Who heritage at the same time as introducing the character to a modern audience." One of the world's longest running science-fiction series, "Doctor Who" was screened in Britain from 1963 to 1989 with several actors playing the role, including William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee (news) and Tom Baker (news). The series sold around the world.

No more home-alone screenings of Oscar contenders? Screening tapes--and more recently DVDs--for award-eligible films have been a given for Academy voters for several years. It's been a combo perk/privilege to be able to sit home in bed and decide whether Tom did a better job than Jack, or Gwyneth was more effective than Meryl. But this year, those who skip out on the showings at their neighborhood multiplex in favor of their home theaters may be SOL. That's because the Motion Picture Association of America is trying to get the major studios to stop mailing out DVD and video screeners, claiming the practice leads to piracy. Tinseltown has been in a tizzy ever since late Tuesday, when, according to Daily Variety, the MPAA sent studio honchos a draft of a proposal recommended a ban on screeners. Now, the suits are reportedly discussing whether such a move would be advisable, or even possible. Although purists would like the mailings ended, believing it a disservice to any filmmaker to have his or her big-screen project viewed on the boob tube, turning the clock back is considered unlikely--at least for this season. One studio source suggests to E! Online that stopping screeners is "a perfectly rational" concept, which might be possible to implement next year, but not in the few weeks remaining before campaigning begins in earnest for the upcoming February 29 Oscar ceremony. It stands to reason that the studios' major releases, which are afforded splashy premieres and wide release--wouldn't be as harmed by a screener ban as the companies' art-house divisions, whose films are only given limited releases, or those truly independent studios, who have used to mass-mailing of screeners to help level the playing field. The MPAA proposal is directed not just at major distributors, such as Fox or Disney, but also those giant's subdivisions, i.e., Fox Searchlight and Miramax. Even DreamWorks, a MPAA nonsignatory, is involved. But, according Variety report, it is not yet know whether the watchdog group has also approached real independents like Lions Gate, Newmarket, Magnolia and ThinkFilm, none of which is an MPAA signatories. Some conspiracy theorists see the maneuver as a way to guarantee Oscar goes to major studios at the expense of the little guy, who really needs the exposure brought by home screenings bring. Other show-biz types question the parameters of the award season. We know when it ends--Oscar nomination ballots have to be turned by 5 p.m. on January 17, and the final ballots returned by 5 p.m. February 24--but when does it officially begin? Finally, there is the battle for eyeballs between the freebie screeners--which are forbidden from having anything other than the movie--and the consumer DVDs, which can have oodles of viewer-friendly extras. For example, likely Oscar player Seabiscuit will be out on video in time for the holidays. While voters would have to pony up some cash for the horse opera, its availability could give it an edge over other films that won't be out until months later. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (news - web sites), which moved up the Oscar ceremony to attempt to regain some of the luster stolen by the numerous other award shows, has declined to comment. The Academy does not supply its membership list to the studios sending out screeners, has always proselytized for films to be seen on the big screen, either in theaters or at arranged studio screenings, and has, in its never-ending effort to halt excessive campaigning, managed to curtail the elaborate packaging and accompanying gift books that at one time accompanied the screeners. The practice of sending screeners has also ballooned beyond just Oscar voters. The Directors, Writers and Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) all get screeners, as does the Golden Globe-selecting Hollywood Foreign Press Association and various critics' groups, among others. At the same time, theaters owners have taken a stance against the long-held practice of providing free admittance to members of these guilds and associations. The MPAA, which is desperately trying to keep the movie biz from following the path of the piracy-ravaged recording industry, has already floated several other proposals to curtail copying. But the studios haven't backed such measures as disposable DVDs or discs with on-screen imprinting, designed to make the source of any illegally dubbed or distributed copies more easy to trace. Calls to the MPAA were not returned, and studios contacted had no official comment.