This is long overdue. I know people that worked there as correctional officers and a lot of the violence over the years never made it to the press. What should they do with it? I think they should modernize it and move the inmates back. We still need a place to put the scum.
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March 20, 2007
Jessup's Doors Slam Shut for Good
March 19, 2007
More Fallout from Florida Steroid Raid
Wrestlers allegedly tied to drug ring
Documents: 'Edge,' 'Hurricane' allegedly ordered HGH
By: Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim
....In total, there were 11 professional wrestlers listed in the documents that we saw. Some of these wrestlers are working as independents; some are out of the business entirely; others are first-tier stars. Consider Randy Orton, who allegedly received eight prescriptions for six different drugs -- stanozolol, nandrolone, anastrozole, Clomiphene citrate, oxandrolone and testosterone -- between March 2004 and August 2004. (Through the WWE, Orton declined comment.) Interestingly, according to the documents, Orton's prescriptions came from the same two doctors whose names appeared on the prescriptions in major league outfielder Gary Matthews Jr.'s file.
SI.com: Most of the athletes named in your previous stories were allegedly receiving human growth hormone. It sounds as though the professional wrestlers were allegedly mostly receiving steroids.
Llosa/Wertheim: Right. At some level this stands to reason: The skill-set required for pro wrestling is obviously different from that of most other competitive sports. According to the documents two prominent wrestlers, Adam Copeland, a.k.a. Edge, and Shane Helms, a.k.a. The Hurricane, received HGH. (Through the WWE, Copeland and Helms didn't respond to a request for comment.) But virtually all the others allegedly received a wide variety of anabolic steroids. In each case these were supplied by Applied, the Mobile, Ala., compounding pharmacy that was raided last fall....
source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com
March 17, 2007
WWE to MIT
MIT University has added a course focusing on professional wrestling. Several WWE personalities including Jim Ross are scheduled to lecture. Below is an official press release:
Good Old JR heads to MIT!
WWE® RAW® Announcer Jim Ross™ Kicks Off Pro Wrestling Lecture Series At MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 15, 2007 –"The Voice of Monday Night RAW" Jim Ross will kick off a series of class presentations and lectures involving WWE personalities to be held at MIT this semester as part of a Comparative Media Studies course focused on pro wrestling in America.
"Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross will be speaking to students on Wednesday, March 21, and Thursday, March 22, to share his thoughts on the growth of pro wrestling into a global phenomenon through his experience as one of the greatest wrestling announcers ever in the business, as well as his role in handling talent relations and business development for World Wrestling Entertainment® (WWE). Ross will share experiences from his many years in the television industry, as the wrestling industry has moved from TV syndication to cable to pay-per-view to prime time broadcast television, and now to digital media, including DVD, video on demand, the web and mobile phones.
His appearance will culminate in a lecture to students and the public in Room 4-370 at 5 p.m. on March 22 entitled, "This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker: A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross," moderated by Sam Ford, the class instructor......More? Click here.
source: www.wrestlingnewsworld.com
March 15, 2007
Sneaking up on Vince: Is UFC the next big thing in Pay-Per-View?
Thomas Keister
March 13, 2007
It isn't very often you see mention of World Wrestling Entertainment or the Ultimate Fighting Championship in the business section of a newspaper. More often than not, when either company is named, there is a spot that usually proves the mainstreams media's overall ignorance of an established and successful entertainment product. A case in point was a recent British feature on the WWE making matches and other content downloadable for cell phones. The only star on the WWE roster mentioned by name, other than a generic reference to the Divas, was "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan. No offense to the Hacksaw, but since when did you ever have mainstream heat? Certainly not in 1991, certainly not today. Maybe the British reporters could flip the channel and check out Monday Night Raw once in a while. I mean, how hard can it be? They only have like six-and-a-half channels or something.
While Spike TV has yet to grow a set and give TNA Impact a two-hour prime time slot, the UFC has been creeping up slowly on professional wrestling, not only in popularity, but profitability as well. Just the recent doses of mainstream exposure UFC has been getting has amped up its profile, with Tito Ortiz dating Jenna Jameson and Chuck Liddell appearing in the recently-released Frank Miller film, 300. Under president Dana White's leadership, the UFC has grown well beyond its reputation as a money-losing organized brawl.
The numbers aren't lying, and they are eye-opening as well. For 2006, not only did Ultimate Fighting Championship tie World Wrestling Entertainment with $200 million of pay-per-view revenue, they beat HBO Boxing, which brought in around $170 million with their PPV productions. Don King and the rest of boxing's ilk must be pissed....More? Click here.
March 14, 2007
March 13, 2007
Triple H on Bodybuilding.com Radio
Triple H was on Bodybuilding.com Radio yesterday. You can still listen to the interview. It will be available through March 19th....
The remarkable success of pro wrestling has long been a hot topic among bodybuilding fans. "Pro Bodybuilding Weekly" explores the relationship between bodybuilding and wrestling as bodybuilding talk radio welcomes WWE Superstar Triple H. A former competitive bodybuilder and host of two Mr. Olympia contests, Triple H remains one of the most popular and successful wrestling champions of all-time.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/player.htm
March 11, 2007
Hilary Clinton in Triple H's Hometown
Clinton packs ’em in
By Albert McKeon, Telegraph Staff
NASHUA – Democrats had their political appetites satisfied Saturday: chocolate in the afternoon with Hillary and then a chicken dinner with Hillary.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton made a brief but memorable visit to Swan Chocolates in the afternoon – stopping downtown traffic to sip a hot drink and meet admirers – before headlining the state Democratic Party’s annual dinner at the Sheraton Nashua Hotel...
You can read the rest of the article here.
March 10, 2007
UFC PRESIDENT DANA WHITE DISCUSSES FORMER WWE CHAMP BROCK LESNAR & TNA STAR KURT ANGLE
by Mike Johnson @ 6:56:00 PM on 3/9/2007
Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White did an interview with CBS Sportsline that was posted earlier today. Of the most interest to professional wrestling fans were comments made regarding former WWE champions Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar. UFC's Interest in Lesnar: "Very interested in Brock Lesnar. Brock Lesnar is out there, I believe right now he had signed a deal with K-1, and he's out there training hard from what I hear, and he's taking this serious. And that's what you need to do. Brock Lesnar seems like a serious guy to me." White went on to say there have been no contract talks between the two.
Kurt Angle in UFC: "I like Kurt. I've talked to Kurt a bunch of times. I'm just not sure how committed he is to fighting. I made him an offer before, and he went over and did TNA wrestling. I don't know. If the guy is seriously interested in fighting, then he should be fighting with the UFC."
What It Would Take for UFC to Sign Angle: "The guy, seriously, is a legend in Olympic wrestling, and is a legend in professional wrestling. I'm not going to bring anybody in here for some type of freak show to get hurt. If the guy wants to be serious and wants to come over and train -- and I can hook him up with all the right people to train with, the right training places, and everything else. If he wants to be serious, I'm interested, but I'm not going to bring him over here to get hurt."
Angle Competing in MMA and pro wrestling simultaneously: "I'd prefer he did one or the other. I mean, how the hell are you going to professional wrestle and professional fight? It doesn't work that way. It takes a lot of time and training to dedicate to fighting." Angle saying he'd need six month of training: "At his age and having never had a pro fight, that would be a very good idea. This thing isn't a joke. You don't just decide "I'm a professional wrestler I think I'm going to fight." It takes a lot of time, dedication and hard work -- just like wrestling does. I'm sure these guys have to train hard and have to get in great shape to professional wrestle. You can't just jump up one day and say, "I'm going to be a pro fighter and I think I'll fight next month." It doesn't work that way. It doesn't even come close to working that way.
White discusses a number of other topics in regards to MMA including the announcement that UFC 70, scheduled to be held in Great Britain, will be broadcast for free on SpikeTV. You can read the entire interview at http://www.sportsline.com/boxing/story/10050453.
March 9, 2007
Disney's First Black Princess in an Animated Film
The film, set for release in 2009, also is the first hand-drawn film Disney has committed to since pledging last month to return to the traditional animation that made it a worldwide brand.
“The Frog Princess,” a musical scored by composer Randy Newman, is “an American fairy tale” starring a girl named Maddy who lives in the French Quarter in New Orleans, said John Lasseter, chief creative director for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios...You can read the rest of the article here.
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
