Celtic Guardian

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The official WWE/USA press release on Business Wire The press release came out. It's a three-year deal. Raw will also air in Spanish on Telemundo. At least two specials per year will air on NBC Saturday late nights, I assume in the SNL slot.

From CBS: At least 18 people shot, at least 6 of those killed including perhaps the shooter by suicide (reports conflict on this point) in Red Lake High School on an Indian reservation in northern Minnesota. My God.

There are so many things that I don't have the time to list them all. We know we are all going to hell -- we're just hoping that Satan puts us all on the same floor or something. I wouldn't be so sure of that... Of course, the IWC was enraged after Craig Kilborn made a joke about the death of Owen Hart and SportsCenter made a joke about the death of Junkyard Dog. We really can't have it both ways, you know.

14 people being shot isn't juicy? You can bet if this was 2 white kids in a rich upper class high school we'd have about 1000 stories on it already. But it's on an Indian Reservation so that means it's not important. God damn the media is racist. It could just be the fact that the shooting occurred in a relatively isolated and now locked down location, well away from where any major news media reporters would have been stationed. Without the pictures, it's very hard for television outlets in particular to deal with the story.

My sympathies go out in advance to the couple who will inevitably divorce. Such is the virtually certain outcome when both spouses are involved in the business.

Well it is on one of those C-SPAN channels, the difference is that it's on a bunch of other channels too. I'm just wondering why the politicians are focusing on just famous baseball people if the concern is supposed to be over public health.

...and lose to Georgetown. At least the Hoyas will give a damn. This season's Maryland team can't be bothered with a full effort except against North Carolina/Duke caliber squads. If the Terrapins get in the NCAA tourney, I can only interpret that as a nod to CBS for higher TV ratings in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore television markets. As for George Washington, people who know basketball already respect the team but I believe it is more a question of getting respect in the local D.C. area media than anything else.

Hypocrisy is not a foreign concept to the pro wrestling business. WWE could simply use the catch-all justification that the romantic entanglement "reflects poorly" on the company. Boeing Co. just used that justification to force out its CEO over such a matter.

It is in her book, no great state secret there.

Didn't she suffer that nasty injury at the hands of Victoria at a house show, and can't wrestle because of it? Trish wrestled on the house shows this past weekend so that's not so much a problem.

The way WWE operates, I wouldn't be surprised if the Iron Sheik himself isn't pushed out to state how proud he is to be "Arab". Bottom line: In the world of sports entertainment, WWE's big lie is the truth and all must swear allegiance to it.

The WWE Victoria's real name is Lisa Marie Varon, so she's not suspended. The suspended Victoria is an indy wrestler.

We're sorry, the correct answer is "job me to Undertaker". Correction: We're sorry, the correct answer is "job me to Danny Basham." Corrected Correction: We're sorry, the correct answer is "job me to Joy Giovanni."

Officially, we don't yet know what will happen to Smackdown beyond the summer of 2006.

Dave Scherer's analysis of this event as "bad luck" for Luger was horrible wording. Luger had the ability to prevent this so-called "bad luck" from occurring by not (allegedly) drinking and driving in the first place. The only real luck here was "good luck" for the innocent people that Luger could have killed had he not been stopped.

Genocide is something that the world says will happen "never again" essentially because the world won't acknowledge it when it happens again.

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I've so missed these IWC wars. I don't know what Keller is doing. The story was that a Smackdown cancellation announcement had already been made. That story has been proven to be false. Anything else is just speculation.

I think Meltzer is right on this one. The Oakland Tribune reporter got her quotes from the Television Critics Association gathering last week where there were a lot of other reporters present. In order to believe her story, one would have to believe that she was the only one out of that whole room of reporters listening when Moonves supposedly announced the Smackdown "cancellation".

The placement of SummerSlam in D.C. has to be a Batista thing considering that's his home area. ... Or that it's just a good market with a 20,000 seat arena. D.C. hasn't been a good market for wrestling in years. TV ratings and house show attendances are below WWE averages for comparable areas. The indies don't run much around D.C. if at all.

The placement of SummerSlam in D.C. has to be a Batista thing considering that's his home area.

I believe some subscribers in the United Kingdom actually receive the Observer earlier in the week the way these printing schedules work, so it could be out for those people at least.

I'm not all that sympathetic for Hassan and Daivari if only because they had a hand (even if perhaps reluctantly) in creating these personas. I feel bad for any Arab-Americans (and those mistaken as such) who may have the unfortunate luck to encounter such riled up fans without the benefit of WWE security.

It was some thing where a wealthy rancher had to decide which one of various scheming friends and relatives would inherit his ranch. The Will probably would have lasted through its one run had it aired on some other night. Saturday nights don't really work for broadcast network reality shows, outside of maybe the Cops/America's Most Wanted pairing. Let's just all be thankful that Amazing Race 6 didn't get stuck on Saturdays as originally scheduled.