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RIP Mike Awesome. It is sad that such a talent felt the need to extinguish itself. Just saw the news since my net has been out the past few days. Hooray Perfect going into the HOF. I marked HARD when that came on. Who do you think does the induction? Heenan? I can't wait for their discussed Mr. Perfect DVD set.

f***ing hell. Homicide can't even get through 4 shows with the strap. Damn you TNA. Takeshi Morishima wins the ROH World Title tonight. We have a new ROH World Champ.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 17, 2007 -> 07:11 PM) I read that TNA "asked" Joe to discontinue performing with ROH. Something about ROH benefiting from TNA's hype and exposure of Joe to sell DVDs, etc. Yep, Joe is on his farewell tour for ROH. By the end of the year it is also likely that Daniels, Homicide, Aries and other TNA regulars in ROH will likely be out of ROH.

QUOTE(Purdue129 @ Feb 17, 2007 -> 03:29 PM) Interesting night in NY for ROH last night... Roddy and Davey destroy Aries; Aries and Evans back together; Joe chokes out Morishima. The reaction from people there was that it was a great show and a fantastic way to start off the Five Year Festival. Davey and Roddy are the New Remorse Corps. (Buh? -- almost a stupid name as VKM) I can't wait for 2.24 to see Cide/Joe vs Morishima/Nigel and I can't wait to get some extra cash so I can pick up some more ROH DVD's (Glory By Honor V Night 2, Final Battle 2006, Joe v. Kobashi) /off to watch Death Before Dishonor IV yet again...

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 17, 2007 -> 02:03 AM) Not really. Far, far from a mascot in today's college world. A mascot is like Purdue Pete or Sparty who runs around the sideline high fiving fans, leading cheers, going nuts on camera, and doing stunts with students and cheerldears alike. You can hate the Chief all you want, but to use that definition is terrible. Uh...it isn't my definition. It is the definition of mascot. 1. Mascot was used in the AP story "Illini Mascot will no longer perform" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_...chief_illiniwek 2. mas·cot /ˈmæskɒt, -kət/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mas-kot, -kuht] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck -- So, yes, the Chief is a mascot. And the Chief dancing was about as authentic as if I put on a blackface, read "I Have a Dream" and pretended to be Martin Luther King Jr.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 08:21 PM) Unofficial didn't really go anywhere and probably never will. People will still celebrate it, whether the university 'recognizes' it or not. The problem comes when people decide to ride motorcycles, etc. while drunk. It's certainly not civil rights movement worthy, agreed, but it's college, and kids are going to have some fun. If you don't like it, no one forces you to participate. Sometimes I think you try to paint U of I as the only school that has retards that like to drink. We all could do without the insane number of stupid frats, sure, but it's college. BTW, the Chief was never a mascot. There's nothing wrong with drinking cuz I sure did my fair share of it...but I never felt the need to come up with a contrived excuse if I wanted to get blasted. I just figured "Hey, it's X day of the week, I feel like tying one on." and just accepting my choice instead of trying to find a socially acceptable reason to justify the choice I was likely going to make anyway so it did not reflect too badly on moi. f*** an excuse to go drink. If they want to go get blitzed at 8 am, go for it but don't make an excuse of a fake holiday in which it suddenly becomes "ok" to do so. It's feeble-minded and it is bulls***. And anything that dances at halftime of sports games outside the cheerleaders is a mascot. I'm just glad the UIUC can get to dealing with important s*** now. www.uiuc.edu/ro/lincoln

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 05:28 PM) yes! A close second would be Youppi! After all Youppi! is orange, can do all sorts of halftime activities and not be condemned by Muppet-Americans. Youppi! for some. Miniature American flags for others! And yes, the Chief was pretty much a blackface routine of Native culture. Hip hop hooray and good riddance. Now can the UIUC worry about things like the GEO grad union, mid-size lectures back, LAS buildings not being up to fire code, the Coke contract since Coke uses death squads in Colombia to bust unions, etc...You know, things that actually matter rather than some moronic mascot at the halftime of a game. Who cares what it is as long as it isn't the "Submittin' Pansies!" Besides, the Democrats already have intellectual copyrights for that name. This is almost as bad as the end of Unofficial. Sorry gang, but a special day does not make getting drunk at 8 am okay. It's just an excuse the kids had to be raging drunks and I did nothing but laugh as some kids likened the end of Unofficial to the civil rights movement of the 1950s.

QUOTE(Brian @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 09:51 AM) Sunny, in her prime, was good at both promos and looks. Seems like AAE's role has diminished with Umaga which is also unfortunate. AAE wasn't getting booed because everybody chanted along with him "My name es...." so they cut back. A good manager is so awesome. /runs off to watch some old Mr. Fuji and Bobby Heenan tapes

I advocate Drinkin' Lincoln for the new mascot! A hard-drinking Abe Lincoln impersonator!

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) I'm not for sure on this (and no, I didn't get this from any message boards, I actually KNOW people down there that I talked to, just for the record), but there is a reason for the following: 1. Nobody has said this was just a tragic accident due to bad weather. 2. Jamar hired an attorney and jetted back to Peoria ASAP after release from the hospital. 3. The police aren't saying anything. 4. They weren't coming home from any sort of official team related anything at that time. 5. There are all kinds of pictures and witness accounts from the apartment about a lot of things after Jamar got there and 911 was called. Now that's the speculatory part, and the futher stuff I know I won't post since that is speculation too. But I will say that folks down there are saying it'll take a couple weeks or so to figure out what the blood/toxicology results say, but Jamar is known to like to tip a few and well.....yeah I don't need to say anymore obviously, except I don't think Carlwell is going to be in an legal trouble at all. Man I hope I'm wrong though, and before anybody says it, the whole reason internet message boards exist is speculation, so don't kill the messenger. Underage basketball player -- the first thing I thought was party...especially from my alma mater. Especially after some of the other things the illustrious sports players at Illinois have done like bar fights at Joe's, McBride's DUI, Luther Head's theft etc, etc, etc. I wouldn't doubt for a minute that Jamar was being a f***ing idiot. I wonder if he'll actually be prosecuted on campus though given the history of slaps on the wrist.

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 06:03 PM) That is very strange, my only LOGICAL thought is they didn't have a cell or the cell just broke in half in that crash (the 2nd being more likely) and he panicked, along with the head trauma messing with his head, and drove home since it was a blizzard. However, I have a bit more knowledge of the situation now than I did earlier today, and with that said....well I won't speculate too much, but Jamar could have issues far worse than leaving an accident scene, and if what I heard is potentially true plays out that way, Jamar's Illini career could be over. I just hope Brian's isn't, thank God he's in fair condition now. An Illini sports player doing something stupid? Shocking! I hope they both get healthy and if there was any inappropriate activities by either of them that the UIUC hangs them high instead of the slap on the wrist McBride suspension.

pwn3d! In front of a live audience too. /Nelson haha at Ned

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 03:00 PM) My guess is that some high powered law firm takes the case Pro Bono now and wins at the appellate level. She probably did not have alot of money to hire a defense attorney and most likely thought that this was an open and shut case. It could be hard though because most likely its statutory and probably poorly written so that there is no knowledge requirements etc. Kind of like the case where a 18 year old boy has sex with his 17 year old girlfriend. And eventhough the girl comes to court and says its consensual, the law says that consent does not matter so the jury is forced to convict. Its a hard place for a juror to be because your supposed to enforce the law, regardless of whether you think that its stupid. Aren't juries allowed (if they know about it) to participate in jury nullification?

They are bringing back the JBL radio show... This is the first one...holy crap, JBL is absolutely gold. http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/web...ckaroundthering

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 07:09 AM) Was RAW rescheduled this week? I forgot to ask Monday, but it wasnt on TV. Thursday night because of the dog show.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 10:34 AM) You still haven't answered this question? So what are the specific, valid reasons that some of these kids aren't standing? Was it becuase they are Jehovah's Witnesses? I know you said that could be a reason, but you didn't say if it was THE reason some of your students didn't stand Oh and what grade is this? The Supreme Court says that I legally cannot force them to stand. They do not have to give a reason to me. Forced compulsion to stand is un-Constitutional. They need not give a reason as to why they don't want to stand, per dictum of the W VA case. And 7th grade. QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 11:03 AM) I'm not talking legally. I'm just curious what it was like one day when one kid just decided not to stand up. Was the student asked what he/she was doing or was it just assumed they knew their rights? Was it then explained to the class that they can stand or not? Was there a class discussion on there? Did the discussion on standing for the pledge happen before the students decided not to stand? It came from a parent whose kid was standing and who felt others should be as well. The classes know they can stand or sit. It is during homeroom so there isn't much time for discussion (there's barely enough time for lunch count, getting kids their missing lunch numbers, announcements, the pledge and calling kids down to the office)

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 04:00 PM) I decided to take my first dip into ROH last night and downloaded the Corino/Homicide match at War of the Wire...pretty good stuff, i'll be sure to look into more ROH material. ROH is so good...which is the complete opposite of that TNA PPV last night. Ugh. Just reading the results and it sounded like crap. And Test has been taken off the road for wellness issues.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 01:39 PM) I'm sorry, but that is a horrible looking card. Must everything be a gimmick? This is Russo we're talking about, so yes.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 11, 2007 -> 01:04 PM) Mind posting the card? How much is a TNA PPV anyway? NWA Title: Cage vs Angle with Enforcer Samoa Joe Prison Yard Match: Abyss vs Sting X Div. Title: Chris Sabin vs Jerry Lynn Little Italy Street Fight: LAX vs Team 3D Motor City Chain Match: Rhino vs AJ Styles Team Eckstein vs Team Pierzynski James Storm/Miss Tennessee vs Petey Williams/Gail Kim Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 03:33 PM) Saw Joe on iMpact! last Thursday and he seems to be gaining weight again. Does he have some kind of injury that's keeping him from training? ...or does Sizzler just have a KILLER all-you-can-eat deal? In the immortal words of Pulp Fiction: "Whats a ******* gonna do? He's Samoan!"

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 02:36 PM) So what are the specific, valid reasons that some of these kids aren't standing? And you tell them all to stand but some just decide not to and you let them undermine your authority as their teacher? Legally, I can't force them to stand. But way to read the thread and get all the facts before snapping off. It isn't a question about authority as a teacher. It is a question of legality and civil liberties that students have. Schools cannot make it a rule to have all students stand because it is illegal. The US Supreme Court of the United States ruled that mandatory and forced flag salutation is antithetical to the Constitution. Yanked from Wiki: The Majority opinion in Barnette was written by Justice Robert Jackson and it is Jackson’s eloquent remarks that have become the legacy of the decision. Justice Felix Frankfurter authored the opinion three years earlier in Gobitis and his opinion rested squarely on four legs. In Barnette Justice Jackson systematically knocked each leg off Frankfurter’s Gobitis decision. Jackson began with Frankfurter’s designation of the flag as a national symbol. He did not question Frankfurter’s designation of the flag as a national symbol instead he criticized the pedestal Frankfurter put such national symbols on. Jackson derided symbols as a “primitive but effective way of communicating ideas,” and chided that “a person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man’s comfort and inspiration is another’s jest and scorn.” Next Jackson denied Frankfurter’s argument that flag-saluting ceremonies were an appropriate way to try and build the “cohesive sentiment” that Frankfurter believed national unity depended on. Jackson utterly rejected Frankfurter’s argument, citing the Roman effort to drive out Christianity, the Spanish Inquisition of the Jews and the Siberian exile of Soviet dissidents as evidence of the “ultimate futility” of those historical efforts to coerce unanimous sentiment out of a populace. Jackson continued, warning that, “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.” Then Jackson dealt with Frankfurter’s assertion that forcing students to salute the flag, and threatening them with expulsion if they chose not to, was a permissible way to foster national unity. Jackson’s rejection of this section of Frankfurter’s argument has proved the most quoted section of his opinion. In his Gobitis opinion Frankfurter’s solution was for the dissenters to seek out solutions to their problems at the ballot box. Jackson responded that the conflict in this case was between authority and the individual and that the founders intended the Bill of Rights to put some rights out of reach from majorities, ensuring that some liberties would endure beyond political majorities. "The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities ... One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote." The last leg of Frankfurter’s Gobitis opinion reasoned that matters like saluting the flag were issues of “school discipline” that are better left to local officials rather than federal judges. In an oft-quoted passage Justice Jackson knocked out the final leg of Frankfurter’s opinion, sending the Gobitis decision to the grave. "But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."

QUOTE(The Critic @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 07:25 PM) If I could find a place to rent the ROH DVDs, I would, but the only wrestling DVDs I buy are the retrospectives (Road Warriors, Monday Night Wars, Legacy of the AWA). I don't like watching the ROH clips on YouTube - in fact, about all I watch on YouTube are the shoot interviews. All ECWWE is now is an unfunny joke. I wouldn't get every ROH DVD, but you won't regret buying some of the better ones (i.e. Joe/Kobashi) I know you don't like Joe but the show and matches are amazing.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 10:53 AM) Parents. And religion. Jehovah's Witnesses (especially orthodox) will not stand for the pledge because they believe it is worship of the flag -- which is idol worship, something deemed a violation of one of the 10 Commandments. That's how the case in 1943 with the W. VA Board started. And also I knew that Jehovah's Witnesses don't stand due to religious purposes because I was in grade school with two kids who were JW's.

Critic, just get some ROH DVD's. It'll quench your thirst for wrestling and it is pretty damn entertaining. That said -- ECWWE is now a vehicle simply to make Lashley look unstoppable as possible. Sorry, I'm distracted by the Chicago Spectacular Night 1 DVD (Jimmy Rave vs Nigel) Rave is such a good heel. After I get the Chicago Spectacular done, I've got Death Before Dishonor IV awaiting me. And oh yes -- the NWA in Vegas on Feb. 25 has announced Colt Cabana vs Super Porky. I await eagerly. /off to watch a Cage of Death between CZW and ROH.

Got my ROH tapes in the mail. Seeing the event I was at on film is awesome. And I mark hard for Kikutaro/Ebessan. He is so hilarious and talented in the ring.