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I'm amazed I haven't seen any really cynical cracks along lines of "Okay, they're called entertainers, so when do they actually start entertaining?"According to Meltzer, the term "sports entertainment" is now banned too in favor of just "entertainment."
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With the responses in this thread, you would think this was an important issue.I'm not so sure it isn't one. The constant references to workers as "entertainers" tears at the suspension of disbelief.
It's one thing to know that pro wrestling isn't real. It's another thing altogether to have that fact forcibly shoved down one's throat.
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Where I'm living now is right smack in the middle between Baltimore and Washington, but the THE team here is the Redskins. #2 would be Navy Football, and #3 would be the Ravens. However, the Raven fans tend to disappear if the team loses more than one game in a row while you'll see Redskin and Navy fans all over the place even when the teams win 3 games (or less) in a season. Maryland Basketball would be #4, with Maryland Football being a distant #5. The Orioles still have some fan support, but have been so bad for so long that it's starting to fade. The Nationals (I hate the "Nats" nickname) had a real chance to gain a foothold but screwed it up royally. This was not a surprise.EDIT: Actually, I'd say Navy Football might actually be #1, or at the very least #1A.
In the Washington, D.C. area proper, the Redskins would obviously be #1 and it's not even close.
The battle is for #2 where the Capitals may be jumping ahead of everyone else. I'd probably put the Wizards at #3, Maryland basketball at #4 and the Nationals as #5, that's being generous.
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That's totally bush league for JR to mention Lance's personal problems in such a manner. Even if he was a total wreck on the flight, that's between him and his employer. I don't see how WWE gains by bad-mouthing Cade in a public forum. The company should be above responding to bogus internet rumors.Whether Cade did or didn't do something wrong, JR's blog post is clearly a violation of Cade's medical privacy. JR should have simply left the firing as a private issue and not addressed it further. This kind of innuendo mongering is beneath him.
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Another Cyber Sunday ballot item announced on WWE.com, a choose the tag team pair.
...only the top vote-getting match of the following three potential matches will take place.
- World tag champs Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes defending vs. CM Punk & Kofi Kingston- John Morrison & The Miz vs. Cryme Tyme
- Jamie Noble & Mickie James vs. William Regal & Layla
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NFL Week 7
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Pacman Jones has been suspended indefinitely by the league. How 'bout them Cowboys?I'd be a lot more impressed by Goodell's tough guy act if he'd crack down on non-players too.
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Well, since they will be on the West Cost, maybe he can do a spot on Jay Leno the night before.Leno's guests are usually higher up the celeb food chain, even WWE can't land guests there very often. Maybe TNA would have a better shot at Kimmel or Ferguson.
On the earlier note, the fact that TNA is doing its first non-Orlando based Impact should be a bigger deal in the headlines. I'm more than curious to see if the regular show can draw a paid audience so far away.
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NFL Week 5
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Well, now that at least the distraction is gone, I look forward to the rest of the season. Hopefully the team can rally together and start winning some games.This firing "for cause" business seems like an open invitation for legal action and continued distraction.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle4837644.eceMcCain's campaign is hoping Bristol and Levi get married before the election. Nothing says family values like forcing two teenagers into a loveless marriage for political gain!
It's time for the McCain/Palin campaign to be told to leave Bristol Palin alone too. No teen girl deserves to be hit from all sides like this.
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I can't see how Linehan keeps his job another week either.And he didn't. Linehan fired, Jim Haslett bumped up to interim coach.
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Looks like a show that might not be very fun to watch. They must really want C.W. to pull a shit rating on their way out.In most of the US, Smackdown will also be in partial conflict against the first presidential debate so I'm assuming a subpar rating anyway.
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The fall of Rutgers continues, Navy comes back to take 'em out 23-21.
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Has HHH actually mentioned "Dr. Black?" Unless it's from this week, I don't recall the name ever coming up.HHH's reference to Dr. Black was taken off Smackdown in editing before it ever hit the air.
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WTF is the Dr. Black stuff? I don't really watch SD.Triple H has been cutting promo's on Jeff that mock his past drug issues and has made references to Dr Black, who was Benoit's doctor.
Meltzer doesn't want to post anything that would be legally actionable but he's clearly throwing the hint out for those inside enough to pick up on it.
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Judging by the last two posts, looks like Hardy is F-I-R-E-D.Well, at least he had a nice run. But in the end, he'll probably be like a Scott Hall, always messed up, good mid carder/IC champion, but could NEVER get it straight for the big one.
There's still not enough here to tell much of anything. Nobody with direct knowledge of the situation has publicly alleged yet that drugs have anything to do with it. Barring such a connection, we're left with (maybe) questionable behavior on an airline flight, not really third strike material. Jeff Hardy won't be bounced from WWE based on speculation, there needs to be something real and provable.
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NFL Week 2
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OMG what did football teams do before there were bye weeks?????????????Well, they didn't play other teams that had bye weeks for one thing. There was no built-in competitive disadvantage.
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NFL Week 2
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According to Chris Mortensen/ESPN, Ravens/Texans has been postponed to Sunday, November 9 due to hurricane damage at Reliant Stadium. Bengals/Texans will be moved up from 11/9 to October 26 to make room. Goodell really screwed the pooch for not just moving Ravens/Texans to a neutral site days ago.
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More fuel for the ACC really, really stinks point of view...
Middle Tennessee State has gone up 17-7 on Maryland, midway through the 3rd.
Edit: 24-14 MTSU finale.
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Somehow please explain how the wife of the Democratic presidential nominee can be off-limits to political criticism but the minor daughter of the Republican vice-presidential candidate is fair game.
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Okay this ECU/Va Tech game is officially awesome.Neutral site football rules.
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App St/LSU was originally slotted for main ESPN, the time change forced the move to Classic.
ESPN will now simulcast ESPNU's Delaware/Maryland for the late afternoon instead.
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Mick Foley agrees to terms says the Torch.
Mick Foley has agreed to terms with TNA and will debut as soon as he is contractually free to do so. His WWE contract expires within days.Foley's TNA deal was worked out with help from Spike TV, which may have subsidized the contract. He may end up being involved in other Spike TV projects.
The Torch mentioned possible scenarios as a commentator or on-air commissioner though I'd have to think that he would step into the 6-sided ring at some point.
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Keeping him off TV for a whole year and not taking a hit is going to be tough. If he is indeed out that long, maybe they should give him a brief run on color commentary? He didn't too badly last time (HHH/Hardy I think?), he obviously knows his stuff as far as wrestling goes both from being a wrestler and being a fan as a kid, not like he wouldn't be comfortable talking, potentially solves the Cole/Lawler problem they have.For a significant portion of the WWE fanbase, Cena is a star, someone special beyond themselves. Turning him into a color commentator for an extended period would make him ordinary. WWE should not do that.
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Wasn't this bitch supposed to spark the renaissance of women's wrestling? Wasn't that five years ago?Look around you, she did spark it. Without the effort spearheaded by Gail Kim & Awesome Kong, we wouldn't have a successful TNA Knockouts Division or WWE's Divas Division response.
WWE To Now Exclusively Call Their Talent "Entertainers"
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More like World Entertaining Entertainment to keep the tenses consistent.
I'll just stick to World
WrestlingEntertainment. It's simpler.