When Gonzo was funny....

come on bitch, make me laugh.

hi, how are you?

It's a contest to see who can get under Dent's skin enough to have him toss them in the Cell.

Personally I don't think he has the balls to do it.
pussy.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Screenwriter Ivan Moffat, who shared an Oscar nomination for adapting the novel "Giant" into the classic 1956 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean, has died in Los Angeles at age 84.


Moffat, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the John Frankenheimer-directed thriller "Black Sunday," died on July 4 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Other screenplay credits included the 1958 western "They Came to Cordura," starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, a 1957 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel "The Wayward Bus" and the 1957 sunken treasure film "Boy on a Dolphin," based on a David Divine novel, starring Alan Ladd and Sophia Loren.

Moffat's biggest career achievement was the 1956 Oscar nomination he shared with Fred Guiol for their big-screen adaptation of Edna Ferber's sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Talk about poor management. In an attempt to deflect attention from his own inadequacies as commissioner, Bud Selig annouced that some chump owner is not going to be able to make payroll this month and may be forced to close up shop. The dick then proceeds to fuck with everyone and not reveal which team it is and throws out this bone "its not who you would expect".

Well folks, who do you think the team is and how fucked up do you think it is that a team could be forced to shut down because they couldnt pay their bills.

Unfuckingbelievable.

The business of baseball these days is almost as bizarre as the games (or exhibitions) they play.

- According to Dave Meltzer, Chris Jericho has re-signed with World Wrestling Entertainment. His contract was close to expiring, or had already expired.

- Bill Goldberg, during a phone interview with KTRH-AM 740 (Houston) last night, confirmed that he would return to the ring this year with the response “I will be back in the ring with 2002.” However, it isn’t known where he will wrestle, which doesn’t necessarily mean he will sign with WWE.

- Vince Russo who recently quit the WWE, was backstage at the NWA-TNA pay-per-view last night. Taking part in a production meeting, he also produced some of the backstage segments that aired on the show. Sources close to the situation say that Russo and Ed Ferrera talked out their differences recently. It was said to be the very first time the two have spoken to each other in nearly two years.

Any hopes of Steve Austin possibly returning to the WWE have been dashed with the latest issue of WWE RAW magazine. The next edition of the magazine is dedicated to Austin's departure from the WWE, and the WWE certainly don't hold back on their comments. On the cover, there is a picture of Austin wearing his trademark "What?" T-Shirt. However, the "What?" has been replaced with "Why?" One of the features of this issue is several of the wrestlers state their feelings on the situation.

- Reportedly, on a radio station in Pennsylvania Stephanie McMahon was advertised as appearing at the July 16th SmackDown taping in Wilkes Barre, PA. You may recall Stephanie was kicked out of WWE after Triple H won a match where the stipulation was if he won, she would have to leave.

- Many WWE officials are under the impression that Shawn Michaels wants to make a return to the ring. He has brought up the idea several times, but has concerns about damaging his reputation.

- Ric Flair will not be wrestling full-time but will usually appear on most house shows in a non-wrestling, yet physical segment where he will confront a heel. When RAW is in a major market, that is when Flair will be asked to wrestle.

- Triple H was planning on working two house shows in one night on 6/29 in Providence and New York. The cities are only 170 miles apart and he was going to work early on one show and then fly over to the other to work the main event. However, plans were obviously scrapped when Dr. Andrews told Triple H that he needed surgery.

- There was some talk in WWE last year about bringing in Sting either over the summer or for a Wrestlemania angle but discussions never got anywhere after Sting showed no interest in the WWE schedule.

There seems to be a huge influx of posting starting at around 9 AM and then around 5 PM it drops off significantly. Can someone explain this to me?

<font size="5">Interested recruits signal big change for Rutgers</font>
July 11, 2002
By Dan Wetzel
SportsLine.com Senior Writer


HACKENSACK, N.J. -- In many ways, the fact that all five came to campus on the same day (or at least tried to) was a coup unto itself because just one year ago, when Gary Waters was still an unknown coach from the Midwest, half of New Jersey had already written him off at Rutgers.

Waters is a deliberate, determined guy, and upon arriving from Kent State to a place he knew almost no one, especially influential high school and traveling team coaches, and bringing a staff of Midwesterners, he sat himself down at the state university and over the first few months called just about none of them to make an introduction.


Gary Waters built the Kent State team that went to the Elite Eight.(Allsport)
This was against every conventional wisdom known to college basketball and a lot of coaches were a bit put off that the new coach at Rutgers didn't seem interested enough in recruiting to even pick up the phone.

"You are on my list," Waters said when introduced to a lot of New Jersey guys a year ago at the Adidas ABCD Camp, the prime-recruiting event of the summer, as it played out here in North Jersey.

He was back at the same camp Wednesday but his list is different now, after the feel good 18-13 season where the greatest accomplishment was changing the attitude and karma of the downtrodden program. Now his list includes most of the top players in the Northeast who, maybe surprisingly, suddenly all have lists that include Rutgers for the first time in a long time.

That includes the five studs that tried to come to campus one day this spring -- Paterson's Marquis Webb and Darryl Watkins, Jersey City's Terrence Roberts, Bloomfield's Jamar Nutter and Will Sheridan from Delaware. All but Sheridan (whose car broke down on the drive up) arrived with their parents and immediately began talking about all attending Rutgers together.

It was supposed to be another Fab Five type deal. Or at least a Rutgers Five. The media played it up big.

"We started thinking about it when we were all there," said Webb, a terrific guard prospect out of high school powerhouse Paterson Catholic.

In reality, the Rutgers Five probably won't happen. The kids are now backing down from the original quotes in area newspapers about being a program-changing group.

"We shouldn't have talked about it," Webb said. "It became a big thing, 'These guys are all going to go to Rutgers.' We should have kept it to ourselves. We are not planning on it now. If it happens, it happens."

The reality is at least one of the five will head somewhere else in the Big East. Rutgers may wind up with only one or two of the talented group. And that would be a coup unto itself.

The truth is, few programs have better changed their perception in a 12-month span the way Rutgers has. Waters has gone from being grumbled about because of his methods to embraced by the locals with rare speed.

"Last year me and a couple AAU guys were talking," said Tommie Paterson, the coach of Paterson Catholic where Webb and Watkins play, "and they didn't think Rutgers would be that good. But they came out there and were good, they were great at home and you could see he did a really good job. He won some kids over. And coaches. Guys are now saying, 'Hey, when Rutgers gets some guys they are going to be good.'"

That was the plan all along for Waters, a straight-talking Detroiter who had never recruited the Northeast before taking the job. He did, however, turn Kent State into what would become a Final Eight team and he did that by getting players to believe in themselves and each other.

But Rutgers was a mess after the final ugly days of the Kevin Bannon era. When Waters arrived he decided to put off recruiting and spend most of his time building up the confidence of the players. It was a slow process but it showed his priorities and it paid off on the court.

"A lot of people wondered why we hadn't been out, been with the coaches and really set the ground work for our recruiting," he said Wednesday. "But I really felt we had to clean up the house first so people felt comfortable coming into that house."

Now he is inviting everyone for a visit.

"This spring we spent a lot of time bringing coaches up, seeing the place. You know what's funny is here in New Jersey many of the people we brought in had never seen the total campus of Rutgers. It was amazing. We spent a lot of time with coaches. Then we had a camp that we brought in teams, the top teams in New Jersey in and now they are beginning to understand what we are all about.

"That is going to pay dividends someday. I don't know how soon, but someday."

Rutgers has always been one of the most puzzling jobs in the nation. As the state school of a talent rich state, centrally located along the Northeast corridor, with a fine campus, diverse student body, top-notch facilities and membership in the Big East, there is absolutely no reason it can't be a top program.

But it never seems to quite get there.

But maybe now it will. Waters is a guy kids gravitate too. His Christian beliefs make him someone parents love looking over their children. He obviously can coach the game and his up-and-down, pressing style of play is what the modern player covets.

So maybe it was inevitable that a Rutgers Five would at least be discussed. But no one thought it was going to be this soon, especially after the unusual start a year ago.

"But if we had done everything quickly we'd be running around here struggling," Waters said. "In order to have success you have to set a foundation."

That foundation is in place, the building has begun. Maybe with this group, maybe not, but that all five came is a statement about the health of Rutgers. That the entire state now seems at least interested is another.

"It's changing in New Jersey," Paterson said. "If not with these kids, then with the younger kids. I actually think it's a great place to go."



Edited By Keyser Soze on July 11 2002 at 7:36

I learned from music...



"You gotta know when to hold em
know when to fold em
Know when to walk away
know when to run.

You never count your money
when you're sitting at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
when the dealin's done"
---Kenny Rogers


"You live til you die"
---QOTSA



Edited By Spitfire on July 11 2002 at 5:00