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June 23, 2007
June 22, 2007
EliteXC To Have Their Own Reality Show In The Future?
Move over TUF, here comes EliteXC. Earlier this week, ProElite, Inc., the parent company of EliteXC, filed a current report with the Securites and Exchange Commission disclosing that it had entered into an agreement with Emmy award winning producer Mark Burnett to create a new mma reality show. For those of you who don't know, Burnett is the man responsible for the shows Survivor, the Apprentice, Rock Star and the Contender. Basically, EliteXC joining forces with Mark to create an mma reality show is the equivalent of an mma organization joining forces with Martin Scorsese to create an mma motion picture.
Details of the actual agreement were limited, but what we do know is that Mark will have ultimate control over the series and there is a possibility of Mark producing ppv events based on the series. Burnett is set to receive 17,000,000 shares of ProElite common stock exercisable at $3.00 per share in exchange for his services. As of June 21, there were approximately 43 million shares of ProElite common stock outstanding trading at $12.00 per share.
source: mmanews.com
Dale Jr. signs with Sony for Hendrick ride
OAKVILLE, Calif. (AP) - From the time his sister lent him money to buy his first computer, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been wowed by technology. Now, NASCAR's most popular driver has an endorsement deal with Sony Electronics.
"I'm a big electronics fan. I'm a big computer guy. It's products I can dig," Earnhardt said Thursday at a winery in the heart of California's Napa Valley, where he announced the Sony deal. He will be competing on Sunday in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in nearby Sonoma.
His deal with Sony is a personal services contract that gives the company use of his name, likeness and voice for promotions. He also has a similar deal with Budweiser that will continue next year, regardless of what's on his car.
Meanwhile, Junior still isn't saying what role longtime sponsor Budweiser will have with him when he joins Hendrick Motorsports next season.
Budweiser has been Earnhardt's primary sponsor since 1999, and the beer manufacturer wants to continue its relationship with him at Hendrick. But car owner Rick Hendrick isn't actively pursuing new sponsors, and it's possible Bud could get shut out.
Earnhardt also said a possible endorsement deal with sporting goods manufacturer Adidas was "on the wish list."
Earnhardt's move to Hendrick is expected to clean up his sometimes scruffy image to match that of his teammates, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, although he appeared at Thursday's news conference in a scraggy beard, an untucked dress shirt and worn jeans - with Puma athletic shoes.
Earnhardt said he took to computers early on, but that his father never believed the Internet would be a success.
"That's one place he was wrong and I was right. I took a lot of typing classes in high school," he said.
Neither Earnhardt nor Stuart Redsun, Sony's vice president of corporate marketing, would discuss the financial arrangement or the length of the deal.
"We're very happy at Sony to have Dale Junior involved for some time," Redsun said.
Earnhardt said he got a new digital camera out of the deal.
"The cash is great, but the product is good, too," he said.
June 21, 2007
Brooklyn Woman Prays For Niece Missing In Florida
(CBS/AP) BROOKLYN A woman whose 22-year-old niece went missing last month while visiting relatives in Florida says it's been nothing but "sleepless nights" for the family since the disappearance.
"It's sleepless nights," Daffodil Samuel said Sunday at the family's home in the East New York section of Brooklyn. "It's being hungry and can't eat. It's fasting and constant prayer."
The missing woman, Stepha Henry, was last seen by relatives at their South Florida home on May 29 getting into a black sedan with a man. Henry, who was visiting the area with her 16-year-old sister, said she was going to a nightclub.
Miami-Dade County police have said they don't know if foul play is involved and Henry's case is under investigation. They have examined abandoned cars and traced signals from her cell phone, which now goes straight to voicemail.
Henry is black, 5-foot-2 and 110 pounds and has brown eyes and red hair that falls just past her shoulders. She is an honors graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is fascinated by criminal cases and aspires to be a lawyer, relatives said....More?
source: wcbstv.com
Interesting that this story is not getting as much attention as the woman in Ohio.
June 20, 2007
Eric Bischoff Shoots Hard On TNA Wrestling
Eric said on the World Wrestling Insanity radio show that he gets many questions on his website about TNA. Many fans want to know if they're the next WCW or if he'll ever go to work for them. Here is what he had to say:
"They have not done anything yet and I don’t even know any of those people except maybe Jeff Jarrett and a handful of talent working there. I don't know anyone behind the (scenes). I don't know Dixie Carter. If she showed up in my driveway, I wouldn't recognize her. I don't know anyone over there. I don't know who's doing what. I really don't care. So it's nothing personal here. I'd like to see them succeed…But the truth is, from what I've seen of their product, no one there really gets it. They're a small independent company that's been getting a 1.0 rating for the last five years. ..They keep trying to pull rabbits out of their hat with talent. 'Oh we're gonna bring in Sting and that's gonna turn the business around! ' Well, they brought in Sting, who's obviously a great talent, and guess what? Nothing happened. And then 'We're gonna bring in Christian Cage. It's a big surprise. He's hot in WWE and we got him and it's gonna turn things around.' Guess what? Nothing happened. Then 'We're gonna bring in Kurt Angle and he's the real deal. Things are gonna turn around!' Guess what? Nothing happened. Nothing's ever gonna happen until they get it."
source: wrestlezone.com
Former UFC Champion Royce Gracie's Nandrolone Levels Off the Charts
by Michael David Smith
Royce Gracie was the champion of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, and although he no longer fights in UFC, he'll always be a legend of the sport. So when news broke that Gracie tested positive for steroids at his last mixed-martial arts competition, his fans were hoping there was some kind of innocent explanation.
The latest news makes it awfully unlikely that there's an innocent explanation. According to 411Mania, Gracie's nandrolone levels were so high -- above 50 ng/ml -- that the laboratory that conducted the urine test couldn't even get a reading on its calibrator. The scientific explanation:
A normal person could have a level of 2 ng/mL of Nandrolone that the human body could potentially produce and an athlete that has just completed rigorous physical exercise could have a level of 6 ng/mL.
We received a written response from the laboratory's Director of Science and Technology confirming the positive "A" sample and positive "B" sample.
Gracie's PR representatives issued a statement last week saying he doesn't use steroids and noting the possibility of exercise raising nandrolone levels. It will be interesting to see how they explain nandrolone levels that are literally off the charts.
source: sports.aol.com
June 19, 2007
WWE: Is Faking Vince McMahon's "Death" Working?
When the XFL blimp crashed into an Oakland waterfront restaurant in Jan. 2001, I had written it off as some foreboding accident. In the end, it might have been the best $2.5 million (the cost of the damage) World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) --and perhaps its partner, NBC–-spent.
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June 18, 2007
No Sex Tonight?
Not getting any tonight? Well if you do what this guy did, you just might increase your chances significantly...
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June 17, 2007
The large price of fame and fortune
AUGUSTA— There was a moment when the giant looked reborn. He moved with grace, bounced his fist off his opponent’s skull, primed himself for victory.
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