Maroon PR inks deal with UFL Jul 23, 2009
The XFL, owned by wrestling impresario Vince McMahon, didn t succeed, and the NFL folded its development league in Europe in 2007. The UFL has been in the news this week as a possible home for former quarterback Michael Vick, who served a federal prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring and is now awaiting reinstatement to the NFL.. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Jennings shows potential - or at least candor Jun 30, 2009
Vince McMahon couldn't dream up this. If he does well, Jennings will pose a serious threat to Stern's age restrictions, and any attempt to raise the requirement to 20 or two years out of high school. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
'Smackdown' wrestler has Fresno link Jun 27, 2009
In his new role, Pavone will lead WWE Studios theatrical releases, direct-to-DVD movies, series and reality programming and report directly to WWE Chairman Vince McMahon ... Commenting on the deal WWE(R) Chairman Vince McMahon stated, "This was an offer I couldn't refuse.". (Fresno Bee)
Ex-wrestler trying new move in eatery Jun 27, 2009
A: I learned so much about business in general by working with Vince McMahon, who is a WWE character, but also the owner and founder of the programming (McMahon is chairman of the board at WWE, a company that reported revenue of $527 million in 2008). Seeing what he does really helped me in my new line of work. (AZCentral -- Business)
Good News for Jacksonville Fans Jun 3, 2009
Many hoped that minority owner Steve Kroenke, who's recent run-in with WWE's Vince McMahon, could purchase majority share, but the NFL's cross-ownership policy would prohibit it as Kroenke is the owner of the NBA's Denver Nuggets and NHL's Colorado Avalanche. Another caveat in the situation is the Rams current deal with the Edward Jones Dome. (JagsInsider.com)
Nuggets even Western finals against Lakers at 2-2 May 27, 2009
The Lakers and Nuggets had the Pepsi Center to themselves Monday night after World Wrestling Entertainment moved their Monday Night Raw card to the Staples Center in Los Angeles because of the double booking in Denver that WWE chairman Vince McMahon milked for all it was worth. The fans saw plenty of gripping and grabbing in this rough-and-tumble series. (News & Observer -- Sports)
WWE stages fight with McMahon, fake Kroenke May 26, 2009
WWE stages fight between Vince McMahon and Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke on "Monday Night Raw" - ESPN ... LOS ANGELES -- Vince McMahon got his takedown of owner Stan Kroenke on the WWE television show Monday night. (ESPN -- Golf News)
WWE stages raw takedown of Nuggets owner May 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Vince McMahon got his takedown of Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke on the WWE television show Monday night. Sort of. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Kobe, Lakers take control May 24, 2009
Game 4 is Monday night, when the Lakers and Nuggets will have the Pepsi Center to themselves after World Wrestling Entertainment moved Monday Night Raw to the Staples Center in Los Angeles because of the double booking that WWE chairman Vince McMahon milked for all it was worth. That doesnt mean the crowd in Denver wont see some elbows, forearms and more trash talking like they did Saturday night, when there were five technicals called, including one on Smith for taunting Vujacic after... (MSNBC -- Sports)
Former Bulldog Pascoe already Bay Area favorite May 24, 2009
We think Vince McMahon let Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke off the hook too easy for double-booking the Pepsi Center. McMahon should've given up the building only on the condition that The Undertaker start at power forward. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
NBA: WWE gives in, moves show to L.A. May 21, 2009
Vince McMahon claims hes being thrown out ... Vince McMahon said Staples Center called and offered use of its building and that his organization will return to Denver for an event at the Coliseum on Aug. 7. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Game on: WWE moving Denver event to L.A. May 21, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vince McMahon claims he's being thrown out ... " Vince McMahon said Staples Center called and offered use of its building and that his organization will return to Denver for an event at the Coliseum on Aug. 7. McMahon said many arenas, including Madison Square Garden, called and offered to host Raw. He chose Staples Center, which also was available Tuesday night for its second night of programming. McMahon said it was important to have Raw be shown live on its normal Monday... (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Arena double bookings lead to smackdown May 21, 2009
Which is one way to explain how the Penguins recently found themselves getting iced by Yanni and the Nuggets currently find themselves in a smackdown with Vince McMahon, the chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment. The company that owns the Nuggets had to scrub next week's WWE Monday Night Raw wrestling date at the Pepsi Center to make way for Game 4 of the Western Conference finals against the Lakers. (MSNBC -- Business)
Vick released from prison, heading home to Virginia May 21, 2009
WWE chairman Vince McMahon said Staples Center called and offered use of its building and that his organization will return to Denver for an event on Aug. 7. Bulls promote Forman: Gar Forman has been promoted to general manager of the Chicago Bulls, replacing John Paxson, who will remain as executive vice president of basketball operations. (News & Observer -- Sports)
WWE'S MCMAHON GRABS SPOTLIGHT May 21, 2009
Vince McMahon hates the spotlight but ... Vince McMahon hates the spotlight but. (USA Today -- Sports)
E-MAILING IT IN: Discussing dream MNF booth, NBA draft May 20, 2009
Get Vince McMahon on the phone ... Rubenstein: Vince McMahon seems to enjoy pointing the finger at the fact that Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke didn't have enough faith in his team to keep the arena secured for the playoffs, but remember this was before the Iverson/Billups trade. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Nugget No-Nos May 20, 2009
Melo showed true grit and moxie ; not to mention his jumper and muscle underneath ; in tussling with Bryant (the USA Basketball brothers showed Vince McMahon and Nuggets and Altitude owner Stan Kroenke how it could be done in a smackdown for the right to host Game 4 or USA Network;s WWW Monday Night Raw at the Pepsi Center on May 25). Anthony finished with 39, but Denver needed more from Mr. Big Shot. (Multichannel News)
Nuggets, WWE wrestling over arena conflict May 19, 2009
WWE chairman Vince McMahon told The Associated Press he doesnt believe there was any malice, just ineptness, on the part of Kroenke Sports, which owns the team and the building, but cant tolerate the company just simply throwing us out on our ear. . (MSNBC -- Sports)
NAMES & FACES May 19, 2009
"Obviously Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25th date for a potential playoff game," WWE Chairman Vince McMahon said. This article appeared on page D - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
The model as muse May 5, 2009
"I thought I'd like to make a stop in my own hometown," she said, explaining that when she was 2, she and her parents lived in Connecticut so that Hulk could be close to Vince McMahon and the WWE headquarters. Brooke turns 21 today. (Boston Globe)
10 Dream WrestleMania Matches We W... Apr 14, 2009
Sting is undoubtedly the most popular wrestler never to wrestle for Vince McMahon, and a matchup between the Sting of the late 1990s - the black-coated, baseball-bat-wielding, Hollywood-Hogan-baiting Sting - would surely have gone down a storm in the WWE. A feud with the black-coated, devilish Undertaker would have written itself, and would have provided a WrestleMania match for the ages. 6. (Suite101.com)
IGN Meets The Rock Apr 10, 2009
I don't get a chance to watch it as much as I like, but I still know Vince McMahon and a lot of wrestlers are still my buddies. IGN: Did you see Wrestlemania. (IGN FilmForce)
Titans Salvage Series Finale Apr 7, 2009
Last night, I sent a note to Dennis Farrell, the Vince McMahon of the Big West Conference, asking him what they were doing about the embarrassing situation with substandard umpiring. I noted how the quality of programs, players and coaches has made this perhaps the best baseball conference top-to-bottom in the country, but the umpiring has not gotten one lick better since the days long gone by when the conference was Fullerton and the Seven Dwarfs. (TitanCentral.com)
WRESTLEMANIA 25: Highlights (Piper) & lowlights (Rourke) Apr 7, 2009
Back then, WWE chairman Vince McMahon hired any celebrity he could, from Billy Martin to Cyndi Lauper, to promote the event. That approach created the kind of back-stage commotion that is largely missing in today's WWE. Every aspect of Sunday's show was scripted down to the final minute, when WWE champion Triple H finished the four-hour pay-per-view on time by defeating Randy Orton in the main event. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
WWE WrestleMania XXV Championship M... Apr 2, 2009
After kicking the President of the WWE (and coincidentally enough Triple H's father in law) Vince McMahon in the head upon his triumphant return to Raw, Orton seemed to make a habit of brutally attacking the McMahon family. With the aid of his handpicked faction; Legacy, Orton destroyed Shane McMahon and then RKO'd Stephanie McMahon, prompting The Game to involve himself more actively and defend his wife and in-laws. (Suite101.com)
WrestleMania comes to Houston Mar 27, 2009
The mini-empire is run by wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and his wife Lynda McMahon, the company s CEO, who each earn about $850,000 a year. And there are more money-making plans in the works. (Houston Business Journal, TX)
WrestleMania at 25 Mar 25, 2009
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Lane Kiffin boasts about success of Tennessee’s topless recruiting Mar 21, 2009
Vince McMahon has replaced Ed the OGREron has head recruiter. Welcome to Knoxville hub of WWE. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Professor Wrestling: Rourke At WrestleMania? Mar 21, 2009
This looks like a winner on paper, as Vince McMahon does another stellar job in hyping his signature pay-per-view. In no particular order, here are my thoughts on what's been going on the past few weeks. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
THE INCREDIBLE HULK SPILLS GUTS IN ... Mar 20, 2009
A headlined fallout with World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. A little kickback with steroid abuse. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Dwayne Johnson rocks a new image: Family-film star Mar 13, 2009
He approached WWE head Vince McMahon about branching into TV. He made an appearance on short-lived show The Net, followed by cameos on That '70s Show and Star Trek: Voyager. When he made his film debut in 2001's The Mummy Returns, he had found a new career. (USA Today -- Life)
WWE Hall of Fame 2009 Ricky Steambo... Mar 10, 2009
After creative differences with JCP booker Dusty Rhodes drove him away from the NWA, Vince McMahon signed Steamboat up to the WWE in 1985, quickly re-branding him as 'The Dragon' and kitting him out in martial arts attire ... Following this Steamboat requested some time off as he was expecting the birth of his first child, which didn't go down too well with Vince McMahon and the WWE management, having him drop the Intercontinental Championship to The Honky Tonk Man and limiting his opportunities... (Suite101.com)
Wrestling comes to Glendale stadium Feb 26, 2009
WWE's Vince McMahon promises the event will be like the Super Bowl of wrestling. "Wherever there is fun, that's where we'll be," said McMahon, the WWE's chairman. (FOX 11, AZ)
''Mind-blowing'' WrestleMania coming to Glendale Feb 25, 2009
World Wrestling Entertainment's Vince McMahon promises that WrestleMania will level a "mind-blowing" show at University of Phoenix Stadium on March 28, 2010. McMahon, wrestlers, dignitaries and Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt were in Glendale on Tuesday to announce that professional wrestling's biggest event would make its first stop in Arizona. (AZCentral -- News)
O'Brien's blog Feb 25, 2009
But, alas, Vince McMahon has detroyed what once was. Also, speaking of BBQ, until you all have had Country s BBQ (started here in Columbus), you cannot make mention of the best BBQ. Country s has three locations here in town and four or five franchized locations in Opelika, AL, LaGrange, GA and a couple other locations. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Arizona Hosts WrestleMania® XXVI Feb 25, 2009
Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs, Arizona Cardinals Coach Ken Whisenhunt and University of Phoenix Stadium General Manager Peter Sullivan joined WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and several WWE Superstars and Divas in making the announcement today at a press conference at the University of Phoenix Stadium. WWEs annual pop-culture extravaganza is a coveted event for any major city. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
