The University of Miami has received a very generous gift from The Rock and his wife Dany. It was announced Friday that the couple have donated $2 Million to the school to help fund the building of an alumni center on campus. The room will be named after the two.
WWE.com has a poll posted where fans can vote on a new Balls Mahoney T-Shirt. Personally, the catch phrases are pretty stupid but some of the designs are decent. Visit WWE.com to check them out.
WWE posted the following article regarding their venture into going HD:
WWE goes HD
This Sunday, WWE will conduct it's first full blown high-definition test when it tapes a SmackDown live event at Mohegan Sun Arena completely in HD. The event won't be televised, but will be closely watched and analyzed by WWE executives, including Mr. McMahon, as many variables will be explored.
"High-definition television has a different aspect ratio," Senior Vice President of Television Operations Mike Grossman told WWE.com. "The screen is wider than standard definition television, so we want to see how that widescreen aspect ratio effects what we see on the screen. It's a very vivid image and the Superstars will be very vivid."
Several other aspects of production that would be effected by going HD will be experimented with as well.
"We're actually going to have a makeup artist that has experience in HD," said Grossman. "They use airbrushing techniques as opposed to traditional makeup. But we also need to see how our lighting is affected, how pyro translates to hi def… And then there's audio. When we make the move to HD we'll be broadcasting and recording in 5.1 surround sound so we'll be playing with that too."
Sunday's test is just one step in the transition process to recording and distributing content in HD. The transition will require tens of millions of dollars of upgrades in equipment and a minimum of three years to complete. However, if everything goes well Sunday, WWE fans may be able to start enjoying their favorite Superstars like never before.
"We can provide HD content, [but] our broadcast partners have not migrated to a true HD platform as of yet," explained Vice President of Event Technical Operations Duncan Leslie. "The first way our fans could see our content in HD [might be] through home video on DVDs."
By 2009, all television broadcasts will be migrated to a digital format. While it will be a long and costly process, WWE is excited about the opportunities this presents.
"There's an excitement about it because it is a challenge," said Leslie. "One thing that we're really good at is changing and upgrading and pushing the envelope. We're going to do HD like no one else has ever done it, just like we do everything else. I'm sure there will be techniques that we employ that will be copied. From that perspective, it's a challenge to do it better than anyone else."
Batista is currently overseas in the Philippines promoting upcoming WWE Smackdown events October 21st & 22nd in that country.
The following article was posted in Friday's GA Walker County Messenger:
Four Gordon Lee High School seniors argued the “moot court” case of Terry Bollea aka Hulk Hogan v. World Championship Wrestling before the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
A three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals was led by Chickamauga native Gary Andrews along with his fellow judges Anne Elizabeth Barnes and Debra Bernes. The court is celebrating its centennial by temporarily leaving Atlanta and convening in other parts of the state.
Students from the Gordon Lee High School’s current issues, government and journalism classes sat in on that mock argument, which was followed by the real case of Walker County v. Tri-State Crematory et al.
The appellate court did not rule on the students’ arguments, but in February 2005 the court refused to dismiss the case in which Bollea claimed breach of contract. The three judges complimented the students on their poise and presentation.
“You young men are probably better than the lawyers who really argued the case based on my experience hearing other cases in the Court of Appeals,” Bernes said. “All of you were very good. I could not imagine having the poise and the presentation at your age.
“You have great potential for the law or possibly acting,” she said.
Barnes agreed with her colleague.
“The first time I tried a case I was in law school and my knees were shaking,” she said. “You have such great poise, and what’s even more, you demonstrated a knowledge of the case and a grasp of the legal issues.”
Josh Bloodworth argued on the side of World Championship wrestling with fellow senior Jackson Sprayberry.
“It was a lot of fun, but it was nerve-wracking to get up there,” Bloodworth said. “You sit there and think, ‘They’re really important people.’
After presenting his case, Bloodworth and his classmates stayed to watch attorneys argue the case of Walker County v. Tri-State Crematory et al.
“It was interesting to go from us doing our case and then listening to the real case and see it from that point of view,” he said. “It kind of made you feel even prouder that you were a part of getting to do that.”
Fellow seniors Caleb Bloodworth and Kory Flynn argued for Bollea.
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