Christian Deserves One More Run in WWE Before Retiring

Since re-signing with WWE in 2009, Christian has been sidelined from action on various occasions due to injury. Regardless of what's been reported in the past, Christian has always returned to the ring looking better than ever, but that might not be the case this time around.

Christian was last seen in action on the March 24 edition of Raw when he won a Fatal 4-Way match also involving Dolph Ziggler, Sheamusand Alberto Del Rio to earn a shot at the Intercontinental Championship the next night on WWE Main Event. However, due to Christian suffering a mild concussion during the contest, Christian never received his title opportunity.

In the last seven months, Christian has appeared sporadically onWWE TV, having served as an analyst on the NXT Takeover and Money in the Bank pay-per-view events. He also brought back his in-ring segment, "The Peep Show," with Chris Jericho as his guest at Night of Champions. 

It was reported in September by F4WOnline (h/t Wrestling Inc) that although Christian was medically cleared to compete, WWE's creative team simply didn't have any ideas on how to use him. It was later revealed by Wrestling Observer Radio host Dave Meltzer (h/t Wrestle Zone) that officials view him as being "fragile" and feel his days as an active competitor are over.

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Have injuries cut Christian's career short?

At 40 years old, it's logical to assume that it's high time Christian hang up his boots. The risk of bringing him back into the fold only for him to get injured again is too high, and he hasn't been utilized well in years, anyway.

This is all in addition to the fact it's been rumored that Christian's current deal is set to expire later this year and been speculated he won't re-sign, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/tWrestle Zone). At the same time, it's likely that he'd re-sign as an agent or a trainer for the young, up-and-coming NXT talents.

Christian has spent the better part of his 20-year career with WWE, staying loyal to the company through thick and thin and doing everything it's asked of him. As one of the most underappreciated stars in recent memory, Christian deserves one last run before retiring for good.

As stated, it'd be pointless to have him return only to not use him, but it'd be great to see him be given a final meaningful storyline before calling it a career. Christian isn't of main event caliber and shouldn't be contending for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at this stage in his career, though he did earlier this year at Elimination Chamber. But why not have him contend for a midcard title one last time?

Christian earned himself an Intercontinental Championship match in March, but as noted, the title match never came to fruition due to Christian's concussion. Very rarely does WWE acknowledge its own history, especially if it's from long ago, but it'd make sense from a storyline standpoint for him to return and demand a shot at the gold against Dolph Ziggler.

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Christian vs. Dolph Ziggler

Captain Charisma and Ziggler have seldom crossed paths over the last few years, so it'd be a fresh feud with a solid story behind it. Not only that, but the midcard can use all the help it can get at the moment with so many stars out of commission for the time being.

I'm not suggesting that Christian getting one last run would bring in a slew of new WWE Network subscribers or even increase the quality of the current stale product, but the company owes it to him after everything he's contributed over the last two decades.

Even at the age of 40, Christian can still flat out go in the ring. He had a handful of awesome matches earlier this year against the likes ofSheamus, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton and others.

I realize the risk of injury is there, but if the company isn't willing to bring him back full time, one more match would suffice. At the very least, it'd allow fans to celebrate his career and give him the recognition he deserves.

Would you like to see Christian be given one more run in WWE, or do you believe his in-ring days are in the past? Sound off in the comments below, and thanks for reading.

Kevin Pietersen left alone as cricket’s member of Hollywood star system

“Madame is the greatest star of them all.” Max von Mayerling, Sunset Boulevard

Oh, dear. Funny, isn’t it, that we’re still going on about this? Still. Still going on about it. And even now: still. Perhaps when Andy Warhol came up with his famous line about the democratisation of fame and celebrity it might have been helpful to add a brief footnote about the evolution of the England cricket team. Something along the lines of, in the future Kevin Pietersen will be famous for a very, very, long time. Everyone else, not so much.

Instead English cricket seems to have spent the past decade following the template of the old Hollywood studio system, a business of lone stars and enduring megawatt divas. How else to explain the fact that England’s current most famous cricketer is not really a cricketer any more, but a 34-year-old commercial enterprise parcelling out the endgame of his career between the St Lucia Zouks, the Delhi Daredevils and the Chittagong Involuntary Convulsions and free to spend the past week striding about in his silk dressing gown, lipstick smudged, railing grandly against the world from his Sunset terrace and generally dominating the conversation with that 300-page monologue of rage and claustrophobia masquerading as an autobiography

And so here we are: still stuck on Kev. Eleven years on from his international debut, 14 months since his last hundred in any kind of cricket and nine years since he was last ranked any higher than the seventh-best batsman in the world. Pietersen remains English cricket’s biggest, indeed only, mainstream star; the last gasp of something that has now perhaps gone for good.

 

This is not to make any comment on the rights and wrongs (mainly wrongs: everyone, everything is wrong here) of the ECB’s treatment of one of England’s greatest modern batsmen, a transcendental kind of cricketer whose best innings were beyond the reach of most and who has a well-earned reserve of wider public affection as a splash of colour in often grey times. It is simply a comment on the basic oddity of cricket’s decisive fading away from the mainstream.

For all the talent in the team and a well-groomed public profile on the fringe of things, Pietersen is still the only English player capable of occupying front page space just by saying something, or popping up between the bongs of the News at Ten, or resurrecting a sense of that grand old faded summer dominance, when cricket filled the skies and could justifiably call itself a national sport.

With this in mind the only real consolation I can offer is that the current fug of inanity will not happen again. If only because, as KP points out in his book, English cricket has not produced a real popular boundary-breaking star since the 2005 Ashes, the last free-to-air televised series, with its 8.4m-peak viewers and its open top bus celebrations, which dished up Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff.

Other nations have moved on since: even India has moved on with an ageing, indolent, brilliantly talented generation now pushed aside in favour of a younger indolent, brilliantly talented generation. Not England though, for whom the dominant shared public cricketing moment of the past 10 years is still that image of our own brilliantly explosive skunk-haired dufus genius swanking about the Rose Bowl, Edgbaston, The Oval and Bouji’s night-club, South Kensington.

It is an enduring star vacuum that has leant a strange kind of sepia beauty, a James Dean-ish quality to that 2005 team, the last of the small screen stars and English cricket’s last real thrash at connecting with those outside its inner circle. In rose-tinted retrospect there was perhaps an ideal texture to that bunch of players, who had the ballast and good practical sense of central contracts, without having grown up entirely within the machine, entering it instead with some healthy rough edges intact, and seeming – from a distance and with all due exceptions - a more likeable, un-homogenised, singular group of people.

Whereas now, all that really seems clear is that the system has imploded. It doesn’t work for the players who seem unable to function for any sustained period of time locked away inside that airless blue Lycra machine, a ring-fenced captive product to be retiled aggressively beneath a PLC structure of coercion and control. This has always been a tough sport peopled by some complicated individuals, but English cricket is eating its young. At least six members of that 2005 Ashes team ended up suffering some form of public long dark night of the soul, right up to KP and his misery and confusion in those final years.

Elsewhere, cricket is slipping out of sight. It has become more than ever a sport for the wealthy and the pre-converted, an invisible noise through the wall for the majority of people, whose summer now belongs to the Premier League transfer window and the fallout from Manchester United’s sensational tour of Madagascar. Sealed within its bubble of connected interests, English cricket has stewed and bloomed through a decade of profitable isolation, sweating its pre-existing stars, monetising its goodwill, contracting lucratively. How can this end well?

And yet, it could still. It is surely time for English cricket to engage, however distastefully, with the modern world. There are stars in cricket: they play in high-visibility Twenty20 leagues and dominate World Cups and are called things like David Warner and Marlon Samuels and Virat Kohli. Not that you’d know it in England. There is a TV rights shakedown in the offing, with BT Sport at least challenging Sky’s monopoly. Perhaps in the middle of this there might be more easy access visibility, more incentive for players and bodies to engage with what the rest of the world gets up to out there. Perhaps in time we might even look back on the decade of KP as a strange time, a peculiar experiment in isolation, a gorging on the domestic Test match buck while, elsewhere, cricket moved off in another direction.

One thing seems clear. No matter what you think of him, and no matter how frantic and self-serving his version of engagement with the wider world might be. Out there, beyond the current domestic fripperies, Pietersen is still big. It’s just English cricket that got small.

Greg Dyke says English football must implement Rooney Rule similar to NFL

Greg Dyke believes English football need to tackle lack of black managers

Only two of 92 league teams in England have black managers

NFL uses Rooney Rule, which says teams must interview at least one black or ethnic minority candidate when appointing a new head coach

Four of 32 NFL teams currently have a black manager 

FA chairman Greg Dyke believes English football must adopt similar approach to NFL's Rooney Rule in an attempt to address the lack of black coaches and managers.

Of the 92 teams that make up the Premier League and Football League, just two sides employ black managers - Huddersfield's Chris Powell and Keith Curle at Carlisle.

The Rooney Rule, used in the NFL since 2003, says that teams must interview at least one black or ethnic minority candidate when hiring a head coach.

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FA chairman Greg Dyke thinks English football should adopt the Rooney Rule

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Huddersfield boss Chris Powell is one of only two black managers in England's top four leagues

Of the 32 teams in the NFL, four have black head coaches in charge - Mike Tomlin at the Pittsburgh Steelers, Lovie Smith at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jim Caldwell at the Detroit Lions and Marvin Lewis at the Cincinnati Bengals.

And Dyke believes something needs to be done to tackle the lack of black and ethnic minority coaches and managers in the English game.

When asked about implementing the Rooney Rule in English football, Dyke told CNN: 'It has to happen.' 

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Mike Tomlin (right) of the Pittsburgh Steelers is one of four black head coaches in the NFL

He added: 'You go anywhere in the country to watch football now and there's a disproportionate amount of ethnic minorities and yet why are they not coming through the game?

'We've got an inclusion group looking at whether the Rooney Rule would work. We apply the Rooney Rule when we're applying for coaches. You need to know it's going to work.'

7 New Jersey High School Football Players Charged In Disturbing Hazing Scandal

A group of football players from Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey have been accused of brutally hazing their teammates.

சிறு வயதில் தீபாவளி என்றால்

சிறு வயதில் தீபாவளி என்றால் பட்டாசுதான் நினைவுக்கு வரும்.
அப்பா தீபாவளிக்கு ஒரு நாள் முன்பாகவே பட்டாசு வாங்கி தந்துவிடுவார்.அதுவரைக்கும் வேகமாக சென்ற நாட்கள் அந்த
ஒருநாள் மட்டும் மெதுவாக செல்வதுபோல தெரியும்.ஒரு நாளைக்கு பத்து முறையாவது பட்டாசு பெட்டியை திறந்து பார்த்து வைத்து விடுவோம்.தீபாவளிக்கு ஒருநாள் முன்பு தூக்கம் கூட வராது.
எப்போ விடியும் என்று ஏங்கி கிடப்போம்.அதெல்லாம் ஒரு வயசு வரைக்கும்தான்.இதுதான் வாழ்க்கைன்னு எப்ப தெரிஞ்சுதோ அப்ப போச்சு அந்த சந்தோஷம்...........!!!!

இணையதளங்களில் குறைந்த விலையில்

இணையதளங்களில் குறைந்த விலையில் பொருட்கள் விற்பனை செய்வதை தடை செய்ய வேண்டும்.வியாபாரிகள் புகார்!
டேய் அவனுங்க லாபம் வச்சு வியாபாரம் பண்றான்.நீ கொள்ள லாபம் வச்சு வியாபாரம் பண்ற. இன்றைக்கும் 6000 ருபாய் விடவும் குறையா சம்பளம் வாங்குரவுங்க இருக்காங்க.நீங்க என்னடானா 500 ரூபா பொருளுக்கு 250 ரூபா லாபம் வச்சா எவண்டா வாங்க வருவான்.10 ரூபானாலும் எங்க குறைவா இருக்கோ அங்கதான் மக்கள் வாங்குவாங்க.நீங்க லாபத்தை குறைங்க.அதை விட்டுட்டு!!!

Flipkart, Snapdeal sell products worth Rs 600 crore each in a day

NEW DELHI: In one of the biggest sales days in Indian online retail market, Flipkart and Snapdeal on Monday sold products worth an estimated Rs 600 crore each even as customers complained about technical glitches, while global e-retailer Amazon continued its own pre-Diwali campaign. 

Flipkart claimed it sold products worth $100 million (over Rs 600 crore) within 10 hours, while Snapdeal pegged its sales at Rs 1 crore a minute — which translates into a figure similar to Filpkart's. 

There was no sales figures from Amazon which is running a three-day discount campaign.

"We got a billion hits on our site today and achieved our 24-hour sales target of $100 million in GMV (gross merchandize value) in just 10 hours," Flipkart co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal said in a joint statement. 

Sale on Flipkart started at 8am and most of the products under scheme were sold by afternoon.

"The Big Billion Day is an unprecedented day for us as this is the biggest sale ever in India. With a range of exciting offers on quality products at disruptive prices available throughout the sale period, we have created history in Indian e-commerce," the joint statement said. 



"Snapdeal had a record breaking day of sales on October 6, 2014. We witnessed sales of over a crore rupees a minute, with lakhs of products being sold in a single day," its co-founder and CEO Kunal Bahl said. 

Customers, however, complained of technical glitches and slow response on Flipkart website. They took to social media websites to express their dismay over the performance of the Flipkar website during the sale scheme. Some customers complained that they did not receive their order details despite paying for the product they bought.


"Our technology team has been dedicated towards addressing errors and providing constant support to accommodate the largest scale of traffic and customer visits e-commerce has witnessed across the country," the Flipkart statement said. The company offered huge discount on mobile phones, consumer electronics, gold coins and other merchandise products. 

Under the sale, Flipkart offered Nokia 1020 at Rs 19,999 which is about 60 per cent less than its launch price. Similarly, the company offered heavy discounts on books. Some products were on offer at discount of over 90 per cent.