Following the statement issued by Vince McMahon, Rep. Lee Terry, who already spoke out on McMahon on Tuesday, Feb. 29, continued in the same mindset saying that McMahon’s excuse was “hollow” and that wrestling’s issue with steroids might be bigger as the “entertainment factor is that they are physically huge freaks…” A WWE spokesman, Gary Davis, replied to the statement, saying that Terry’s comment on wrestlers was a stereotype, and that WWE tests their stars throughout the year for their own well-being, as there is little need for an edge in fixed competition.
source: World-Herald Bureau
February 29, 2008
Congressman continues after McMahon/WWE
February 28, 2008
EliteXC and CBS Announce New Deal
EliteXC and CBS are expected to announce a deal on Thursday, according to a report by Kevin Iole on Yahoo! Sports, that will put mixed martial arts on a major broadcast network for the first time in its brief history...More?
source: mmaweekly.com
FBI probing whether Clemens lied to Congress
The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs.
FBI agents in Washington opened the case a little more than two weeks after Clemens and Brian McNamee, his former personal trainer, testified at a House committee hearing Feb. 13, each accusing the other of lying...More?
February 27, 2008
Cena cuts a promo on The Rock
From Kevin Eck of the Baltimore Sun:
Unless John Cena is trying to work some kind of angle, then his recent criticism of The Rock is way off base. In a story in The Sun (U.K.) yesterday, Cena called out The Rock for turning his back on the wrestling business.
“What I kind of get peeved about — and this is my Achilles’ heel — is that I've wanted to do this my whole life. At one point Rock loved wrestling and wanted to do this all his life. So explain to me why he can't come back."
First off, The Rock doesn’t have to explain himself to Cena. But that’s not the point. Like a lot of wrestling fans, I miss seeing The Rock in WWE, but I have never felt that he was dissing the industry or the fans...More?
JR Comments on Triple H
"HHH has never been any thing but professional with me since day one. That's being honest but I will assure you that someone will say, as you so inaccurately implied, that I am only saying that to "protect my job". I assure you that when I am out of the WWE it will have zilch to do with HHH. Plus, I happen to think my work is what keeps me on the payroll."
source: jrsbarbq.com
WWE to Committee: Unfair and Inaccurate
Congress Contacts Bobby Lashley & Chris Masters
Members of Congress reached out to at least two former WWE wrestlers shortly after their respective departures from the company. Those wrestlers are Chris Masters and Bobby Lashley...More?
source: rajah.com
Big, Bad Clemens really feeling the heat
Roger Clemens was going to stare down the truth tellers, make them blink, make them cower with a look that would have left Ray Nitschke shaking in his cleats.
He smeared on his eye black, Clemens did, and figured that would be good enough to get out of one last jam. He's as big as Texas, after all, the biggest Longhorn there's ever been.
Instead he blazed a trail that could lead him to prison, and hardened the stereotype of the intellectually challenged jock along the way. In the long history of sports stars gone bad, only Pete Rose was this drop-dead dumb in defense of his legacy and name...More?
source: msn.foxsports.com
February 26, 2008
House Oversight Panel Drafting Perjury Referral Against Clemens
The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Tom Davis, told FOX News on Tuesday that it is his "understanding" that committee attorneys are drafting a perjury referral that could be leveled against seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens...More?
source: foxnews.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
