Edition 8-12-04


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Bill Goldberg and Kevin Nash are currently in Santa Fe as there is actually a training camp to get the actors doing the football scenes in "Longest Yard" in shape. The movie starts filming at the end of the month in Los Angeles. Steve Austin is not in the camp, and nobody seemed to know whether he was still doing the movie or not. The training is what caused Kevin Nash to pull out of his 7/21 booking in Honolulu for HCW. 
-The WWE has fully implemented their dress code policy and most everyone has adhered to the policy with only a few people complaining about it. 

ATHENS, Greece (August 9, 2004) - The USA Judo team went through team processing at the American College of Greece yesterday and spent the rest of the day relaxing in the Olympic Village. Today, the team returned to the College for their first training practice leading up to the Games. Judo begins on Saturday, August 14th with the men's and women's lightest weight categories. The USA doesn't have an entrants in the women's category; in the men's 60kg category, the USA will be represented by Taraje Williams-Murray, of the Bronx, New York. Taraje is the youngest male member of the team and will be participating in his first Olympic Games. He is the reigning National and New York International and Canadian Rendez Vous international champion.

Judo will take place on the following six days with the next higher weight class competing each day. The USA will have players in all the other weight classes except on the final day where there will be no women's heavyweight representative.


Despite what you may have seen on the streets, the following combinations 
DO NOT go together and should be avoided:
1     A nose ring & trifocals
2     Spiked hair & bald spots
3     A pierced tongue & dentures
4     Miniskirts & support hose
5     Ankle bracelets & corn pads
6     Speedos & cellulite
7     A belly button ring & a gall bladder surgery scar
8     Unbuttoned disco shirts & a heart monitor
9     Midriff shirts & a midriff bulge
10   Bikinis & liver spots
11   Short shorts & varicose veins
12   Inline skates & a walker
13  Thongs & Depends!
Thanks Gene

PIERRE, S.D. - Lawyers for Bill Janklow filed the final paperwork Tuesday with the state Supreme Court in a quest for reversal of his second-degree manslaughter conviction or a new trial.

Five circuit judges appointed by the high court will now consider the written arguments of defense attorneys and the state. The judges also may review hundreds of pages of trial testimony before reaching their decision, which could come within a few weeks or take several months.

All five Supreme Court justices have disqualified themselves from the case because Janklow appointed four of them while governor and appointed the fifth justice to an earlier circuit judgeship.

Janklow was found guilty on Dec. 8 for last summer's death of Randy Scott of Hardwick, Minn. Scott, 55, died instantly when his motorcycle slammed into the side of a car Janklow drove through a stop sign 10 miles south of Flandreau.

Edwin Evans and Melissa Hinton, Janklow's defense attorneys, argue in their final legal brief that the former attorney general, governor and congressman did not get a fair trial.

The prosecution was erroneously allowed to argue that the fallen politician routinely drove fast and ignored other rules of the road, the defense attorneys said.

Jurors may have been led to believe Janklow should be convicted because he had frequently broken traffic laws and consciously did so on the date of the fatal crash, his lawyers argued.

Testimony should not have been allowed from a woman who said Janklow barely missed her family after running a stop sign at the same intersection several months earlier and a former state trooper who said he had stopped Janklow for going 84 mph in a 40-mph construction zone, Evans and Hinton argued.

"The state used the evidence during the trial for an improper purpose and urged the jury to convict Janklow on the basis of his driving history," they said.

The 2004 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally officially started Monday, but early arriving bikers have been wandering through town for several days.

Organizers think more than 400,000 people will visit the area for the annual event. They say rally attendance has increased each of the last two years. The 2003 crowd was estimated at 500,000 people.

Effective Sunday, Main Street was closed to everything but motorcycles. It will stay that way for the full week of the 64th annual rally.

Bikie boss on threat charge August 12, 2004 A prominent member of the Hells Angels bikie gang was charged yesterday over physical threats made to a businessman. 

A second man was also charged over the threats of violence to the 55-year-old Darwin businessman. The two Howard Springs men, aged 42 and 29, were arrested late yesterday afternoon. 
Police said it was the culmination of a five-month operation. 

The Northern Territory News has learned the 42-year-old man is a well-known member of the Darwin chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Police said that both men have been charged with ``several offences'' after allegedly making a series of threats and making demands with menace. The Northern Territory News has learned the threats were over money. 

The two men allegedly used standover tactics and threatened the businessman with physical violence at his business. 

Major and Organized Crime Division Senior Sergeant Scott Pollock said last night the offences allegedly took place between April and August. 

``Police allege the threats of physical violence against the 55-year-old man were made during personal visitations to the victim's business,'' Sen-Sgt Pollock said. 

``Police adopt a zero tolerance to people who threaten or intimidate any member of the public.'' Sen-Sgt Pollock said the police operation was continuing. He said its focus had shifted to investigating the associates of the two arrested men. Sen-Sgt Pollock would not comment last night on whether further arrests were imminent. 
Northern Territory News This report appears on NEWS.com.au.