Archive for August 12th, 2007

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Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Torch VIP Members, click on the red button above to access the 71 minute TNA Hard Justice PPV Audio Roundtable with Torch columnists Pat McNeill and Bruce Mitchell and Torch editor Wade Keller…

Pacman gets surrounded by ‘police’ in TNA debut

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Adam “Pacman” Jones ended up surrounded by police Sunday night. This time they were actors trying to help the suspended cornerback, who had been allegedly “attacked.”

Lucky No. 13: Woods clinches PGA Championship

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

A season of first-time major winners ended with a familiar champion — Tiger Woods, who only seems to win them all.

Jets RB Jones injures right leg during practice drill

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

New York Jets running back Thomas Jones limped off the practice field after injuring his lower right leg Sunday.

Harig: Woods sweats, but never trails in PGA victory

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

It wasn’t a 15-stroke win like the 2000 U.S. Open. It wasn’t a playoff nail-biter like the 2005 Masters. Tiger Woods’ latest major championship title featured a strategic attack on Southern Hills at the 89th PGA Championship.

TNA News: Associated Press covers Pacman Jones’s TNA PPV appearance

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

The story closed with a note about Jones’s six arrests, noting: “His sixth arrest came in June when he was booked by Las Vegas police in the most serious case. He is under indictment there on two felony counts of coercion stemming from a February fight at a strip club that left a bouncer, a former wrestler himself, paralyzed”…

CALDWELL’S HARD JUSTICE PPV REPORT 8/12: Ongoing “virtual time” coverage of live PPV

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

They showed a Hummer pulling up backstage where a dude walked out and opened the door for Pacman Jones to walk out. The fans in the arena booed when Pacman appeared on screen. After Tenay and West broke down the PPV card, Tenay demanded with a very stern face to roll footage on the media coverage of Pacman Jones. The TNA voice-over man narrated Pacman’s journey to TNA. They showed clips from ESPN’s coverage of Pacman signing with TNA.

WARZECHA’S WATCHING TNA HARD JUSTICE PPV 8/12: Random Thoughts in chronological order

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

There’s got to be more than one porn fan that ordered “TNA Hard Justice” tonight and expected something much different than this.Pre show is chock full of very well produced videos, including a one for Pacman Jones where he tells me he’s misunderstood cause he’s actually a player (thought so), a risk taker (ah…yeah), and a man (you don’t say).

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WWE News: Benoit joke by Jimmy Kimmel not edited off of Flavor Flav’s Comedy Central Roast

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

PWTorch.com subscriber Tim Davis writes: I was watching the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav tonight and Jimmy Kimmel had a line that got gasps from the audience. “Chris Benoit is a better father than Flavor Flav.” The reaction was more of shock than anything else. I thought I read somewhere that censors were going to edit that line out, but it was definitely still in…

TNA News: Real perspective on why TNA should be ashamed of exploiting Pacman controversy

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

TNA is supporting and exploiting the actions of Pacman that led to Urbanski’s paralysis. They’re paying Pacman (presumably) money which would not have been worthwhile if he weren’t “infamous” for being suspended, and his suspension resulted from activity which also involved a bystander getting shot. This is a “character-revealing” decision by the celebrity-marks in TNA who have needlessly defined their company down to a level of being willing to cash in on a scumbag (I’m sorry, “misunderstood”) pro athlete to “get their name out there”…