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Salon.com
February 20, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Is the XFL taking the WWF down with it? As smashmouth football ratings continue to fall, some wonder whether Vince McMahon is endangering his wrestling empire...   |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
The XFL won't work Wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and NBC have teamed up for an ultrarough new football league. They're gonna get sacked... |
AskMen.com
April 4, 2001
Mark Simmons |
WCW Takeover Vince McMahon recently announced that his WWF would be purchasing its former archenemy; World Championship Wrestling... |
Salon.com
March 19, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL makes history! Unfortunately, it's in the flop category. |
AskMen.com
November 15, 2000
Mark Simmons |
XFL: As If Football Needed Any More Attitude On February 3rd, 2000, Vince McMahon, Chairman of publicly traded WWF Entertainment Inc., announced to investors that the venerable "sports entertainment" cash cow was going to start a football league, aptly named the XFL... |
Salon.com
February 12, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
XFL, Week 2: Sacked! After a big debut, ratings for the "smashmouth" football league tank... |
Salon.com
March 19, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Is the WWF on the ropes? Sunday's Wrestlemania broadcast, with its much hyped match between Hulk Hogan and the Rock, might not have been enough to save Vince McMahon's crumbling empire... |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Diane Brady |
Is The WWE Rousing Itself Off The Mat? Vince McMahon's wrestling empire is getting a second wind -- but the Street isn't sold yet. |
AskMen.com
May 30, 2002
Mark Simmons |
WWF.com: Who Should It Belong To? To think that if it were not for the World Wide Web, pandas and wrestlers could coexist in harmony... |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
King Kaufman |
It leave me The XFL belongs to the ages now, and we're left with only our memories, if we can remember any... |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Andrew Rice |
The Smackdown Candidate Former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon made her fortune selling the staged battles of Hulk Hogan and The Rock to millions of fans. Now she's selling herself as Connecticut's next senator. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Patrick Cain |
The NFL: A Pro Football League of Its Own The history of rivals to the National Football League is one of short-lived ambitions |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Carina Chocano |
Republican landscaping Where the Rock meets the Shrub, the uncanny parallels between wrestler and candidate sprout like sagebrush on the Texas prairie. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Alternative Leagues Real pro wrestling... New SlamBall season coming soon... Arena Football team value skyrockets... Euroleague hoops immensely popular... |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2005
Steven Mallas |
WWE Goes Back to the USA WWE returns to its old stomping grounds -- the USA cable network. The marketplace blessed the move on Monday, sending the stock to a closing price that was 2.7% higher than the previous session's final value. |
Salon.com
August 1, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
The GOP Convention ratings debacle, Day 1 CBS and ABC tune in, America tunes out and NBC wins by ignoring the convention entirely. |
The Motley Fool
September 30, 2005
Steven Mallas |
WWE's Moving On Will moving to the USA Network really improve WWE's prospects? Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2005
Steven Mallas |
WWE in a Sleeper Hold Slumping revenues have World Wrestling Entertainment down but not out, but the stock has definitely been pinned to the mat. |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
Sports Illustrated
May 30, 2001
Paul Zimmerman |
Catching up is hard to do When I returned from three weeks abroad and I had gone through the mountain of newspapers in front of me, I was struck by one singular thing: Practically nothing had happened on the football landscape. Make that nothing unexpected... |
Sports Illustrated
September 24, 2002
Mark Beech |
In Need of a Fix Vince McMahon's once mighty wrestling empire is on the ropes -- for a reason that the fans of real sports can appreciate. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Madden Moves to NBC The network shows it's serious about its new football deal. |
Sports Illustrated
February 5, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Take the XFL, leave its announcers Memo to Dick Ebersol and Vince McMahon: Your product doesn't offend me. Your announcers do. Big time... |
Sports Central
June 8, 2009
Bobby Campbell |
The Reality of the Pretend You can call it acting. You can call it fake. You can call it pretend. You can call it whatever you want, but the truth of the matter is the world of professional wrestling has never been more real. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Football's Double Reverse NFL fans, it's almost time to adjust your remote-control preferences. Come next year, Disney's ABC will hand off the Monday Night Football franchise to its ESPN subsidiary, while ESPN will be handing off its Sunday night gridiron contests to rival General Electric's NBC. |
Salon.com
May 21, 2001
Joyce Millman |
The dying game A bloody "Sopranos" season ends with an emotionally bruising finale... |
AskMen.com
April 20, 2003
Thomas Anderson |
Start Learning From Your Mistakes Rest assured that everyone, including yourself, is likely to commit a few errors in judgment. The only question is: are you wise enough to learn from them? |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hockey's Hard Times At its best, hockey is a beautiful sport, blending brutality with finesse. Now, the league must score with the game's dwindling television audience. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wrestling With the Future World Wrestling Entertainment takes bigger steps into video on demand, but the fight may be already over. |
Sports Illustrated
February 6, 2001
Rick Reilly |
Kids Are Trying This at Home! The backyard wrestling being performed and filmed in America is a disgrace... |
Salon.com
May 19, 2001
Bill Wyman |
Tony Soprano's female trouble Will David Chase ever free his female characters from their sitcom-bound chains? |
Salon.com
December 10, 2002
Carina Chocano |
Divorce Italian style No major characters got whacked in the "Sopranos" season finale. The destruction was way bigger than that. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2006
Steven Mallas |
WWE Gets Extreme WWE pins its prospects on another brand extension, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). At some point, wrestling will cool down, but I don't think anyone should underestimate the potential of this company as a long-term investment. |
