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The Angels traded disappointing right-hander Jeff Weaver to the Cardinals for minor-league outfielder Terry Evans.

Just think: Johnny Depp could have had the career of, say, Richard Grieco. In 1988, they were both break-out stars, young TV cops working undercover as high school students in the fledgling Fox network’s first hit show, “21 Jump Street.”

The wrestling is bad, the storylines are terrible. This isn’t ECW the way it used to be. This is Vince’s version of ECW. There were a lot of young kids there and the fans are cursing around them. It’s unbelievable…

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Kennedy defeated Super Crazy when Psicosis distracted Crazy allowing Kennedy to capitalize and hit his swanton finisher. A lot of boring chants when there was a long chin lock in the middle of the match…

The Dallas Mavericks agreed in principle Wednesday to a deal that would send Marquis Daniels to the Indiana Pacers for Austin Croshere.

The Arizona Cardinals signed two draft picks — outside linebacker Brandon Johnson and wide receiver Todd Watkins — to three-year contracts on Wednesday.

· Sure, it might seem cool to have William Shatner beam a personal message to your answering machine via a green laser-arrow, but consider the fine print: “William Shatner and the William…

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Filed under: Portable, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Strategy, Business

Though the portable “Xboy” is still speculative, Bloomberg reported yesterday that Microsoft is launching a portable music and video player by Christmas to challenge Apple’s iPod. From the article: “The digital player will have a wireless Internet connection, enabling users to download music without being linked to a computer, a feature the iPod doesn’t offer, according to people briefed on Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft’s plans.”

Chris Kohler from Wired comments on the seemingly true nature of the video-music-sans-games device saying: “I find it odd that it won’t play games, though; you’d think Microsoft, what with their whole department devoted to casual gaming, would at least want some basic portable time-killer type stuff in there.”

Could this device be a sign of things to come from Microsoft on a portable gaming front?

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Our money — since we so regularly put down heavy cash on the intricacies of console launches — is still on that November 6th date that’s been going around, but we’re always willing to entertain a bit more tasteful rumoring. This one’s from CNNMoney.com’s Chris Morris, who cites P.J. McNealy and other unnamed “industry insiders” that the Nintendo Wii is due for October, with a slight chance of late September if the cards are right. This would contrast it to the November 17 PS3 launch, and Microsoft’s November 22 last year, and give Nintendo a bit of a head start in the holiday rush. Apparently Nintendo is in pretty good shape to do so, since they’ve already started manufacturing the Wii, and they so far have only launched one home system in November, the GameCube. It’ll probably come down to manufacturing successes and title readiness, and Nintendo might want to give 3rd party titles a bit more time in the oven with the new control schemes that need to be perfected, but a least the anonymous and unverifiable signs are looking good for an early launch, and we’re not complaining.

[Via Gotakon]

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Filed under: Gaming

Our money — since we so regularly put down heavy cash on the intricacies of console launches — is still on that November 6th date that’s been going around, but we’re always willing to entertain a bit more tasteful rumoring. This one’s from CNNMoney.com’s Chris Morris, who cites P.J. McNealy and other unnamed “industry insiders” that the Nintendo Wii is due for October, with a slight chance of late September if the cards are right. This would contrast it to the November 17 PS3 launch, and Microsoft’s November 22 last year, and give Nintendo a bit of a head start in the holiday rush. Apparently Nintendo is in pretty good shape to do so, since they’ve already started manufacturing the Wii, and they so far have only launched one home system in November, the GameCube. It’ll probably come down to manufacturing successes and title readiness, and Nintendo might want to give 3rd party titles a bit more time in the oven with the new control schemes that need to be perfected, but a least the anonymous and unverifiable signs are looking good for an early launch, and we’re not complaining.

[Via Gotakon]

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