Mike wanna be

It's been turning into a tabloid ever since Vic Venom showed up in the 90's, as far as I'm concerned.

We weren't supposed to figure it out until they officially bashed us over the head with it. Just like Hunter being the father of Aurora.

What the hell did you do? I was on my second ship-back and I got the same console I sent them, complete with power drill disc drive and I only got the apology and a month of XBL. I want a game and a new warranty, damn it.

So...what the fuck is the Hustle and why does it seem to only involve black people who think they're rappers?

Major spoilers 45 minutes in? What a rip.

Shit, I bet you're right. Piper's Canadian and it would be a bitch to figure out if it was him through reverse distortion because 99% of everything he's said is in the faux-Scottish accent.

And he's bitter, if the Dish Network ads have any truth to them.

Agreed, although everything's scripted these days anyway; why wouldn't Austin's promo be?

Record alert, Brennan needs 3 TD passes to wipe Ty Detmer out of the record books. And Ohio State hasn't really played anybody "dangerous"; they've got Wisconsin and...that's about it, everybody else has been rather mediocre. I see them going no lower than #7, but that all depends on who wins beneath them and by how much.

Badass draft news. I don't have to get up early to watch the draft any more.

http://www.wwe.com/superstars/divas/dailydivaarchive/ still works, but the profiles & most recent Diva search aren't there. It's the weirdest fucking thing, because if you go backwards to just the Diva page it can't find it.

Why were they high-fiving anyway?

Blargh on Superstar mode. Why the fuck do you have to play against the Bears defense in the first set of exercises that decide your stats? I'm tired of trying to create a QB and ending up with 30 throwing power & accuracy because the receivers can't get open, or a "speed" RB with 81 speed and 12 carrying because I couldn't get the ball past the LOS in the RB challenge.

It isn't like Joanie was really getting her anywhere. Jim, though...Jim was a solid, respectable name.

No one forced him to do anything. He was the one that decided to take drugs and he's the only one to blame for his release. If you work at a fast food place and you get normal hours when you eat your break meals there, and get virtually no hours if you go out elsewhere to eat, is that not being "forced" to eat your meals there? They never explicitly said anywhere "You have to ____ or we're going to fire you", I agree 100% on the very base of the "They never forced anything" argument; but when you do something and get pushed/promoted, stop doing it and get demoted & ridiculed, go back to doing it and are re-pushed...I mean, it isn't like his body turned into Yokozuna when he got off the stuff, he was still pretty jacked and they just buried him.

Thanks for that Mecca. Whatever happened to the Observer notes, anyway? They always made a good read. My mom will be devastated, she loves Al Snow.

Fuck, my monitor is filthy. I saw those two pictures and thought Ray had a tongue stud in one of them. And Baltimore should be throwing the offense under the bus. Maybe their defense would play better if they had some sort of offensive attack to throw out there. I remember back in the Chargers horrific days that they had an above average defense, but they'd be on the field for 45 minutes a game because the offense would just 3-and-out.

They don't have to be consistently excellent, though; they just have to be above-average for about half the game and then just start Madden-ing everybody with the hail mary into triple coverage on fourth and inches from their own twelve.

That's Sam, of the Than & Sam show. He's an intern for O&A but he's got his own show as well.

Panthers aren't winning if Carr starts; I swear we dodged a bullet having Houston come into the league and take the #1 pick so we could take Peppers #2. Carr seems to have no idea how to run an offense and cannot sense pressure coming, which explains why he gets sacked all the time and Steve Smith gets less than 20 yards receiving a game when he starts.

Alternate attire is a lot better than legends... At least if there's no alternative for 'new superstars'. You misunderstand THQ's definition of "alternate". You're thinking like, Classic Undertaker, 1992 Shawn Michaels, etc. What they're going to give us is HHH in a suit and Rey Mysterio with the exact same design but with a color palette swap and anything else that takes under 30 seconds to throw together and upload to XBLM servers.

TEAM CAPTAINS TRRRRRIPPPLLLLLLEE AAAAIIICCCHHHHHH AND YOUMAHHHGGAHHHHHHHH will join their fellow team members MATT HARDY, MVPEEEEEE, JEFF HARDY, KENNEDDDDAAAYYYYYY, REY MYSTERIO, FINLAYYYYY, as well as KAAAAANNNEEEE and BIG DADDY VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! It's the KING OF KING'S COURT AGAINST THE NOT ALL SAMOAN SWAT TEAM!!! Sorry, every year I need to make my gawdy Vince post. It'd be better with William Regal mispronouncing everyone's name. Triple Haitch and Youmanga join their team members Matt Hair-dee, Emvepah, Jeef Hair-dee, Kuh-needy, Ree My Stereo, Fine Lay, as well as Cah-nay and...the fifth Big Daddy!

Clearly he's sticking it to Steve-O for bailing on the Summerslam angle by running over and cutting into Doctor Steve-O.

Except it won't be different, it'll just be the same old "heel *reason for rolling out of the ring and not being eliminated that's so good, the referees do not officially disqualify him from the competition*, only to sneak back in at the last second, toss out the face winner and celebrate while Jim Ross foams at the mouth" schtick they've done in the past handful of battle royals. (royales?) What I'd like to see is Lashley shoving Edge with all his strength, and have Edge & Lashley teetering on the top rope, only to have Edge use leverage to flip Lashley out while falling back into the ring himself. Use smarts that aren't overly repetitive, dammit.

Oregon deserves it more; LSU's been skating by team after team (Auburn, Bama tonight, Florida) while Oregon has been dismantling people. They took out Michigan before their tear, they took down USC, they took down ASU tonight. If Oregon & LSU win out I have to go with Oregon 2, LSU 3.