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With our regular season half shot, football junkies, bloodlust barely sated, are already suffering proleptic pangs of withdrawal. And this year, cruelly, a false hope has been raised: the XFL. Right after the Super Bowl, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, in alliance with NBC, will kick off its brand of super-smash-mouth football. Vince and the WWF's think tank have come up with some rule changes to make the game more exciting, i.e., more violent. There will be no fair catches. No touchbacks on the kickoff. No "in the grasp" rule to protect the quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Ready For Some Football? | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...captain Stephanie McMahon, who recorded 13 kills and 14 digs, the Bulldogs kept Harvard at bay throughout the match and employed tough defense to deliver the loss...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Drops Two to End Ivy Season | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...with a swim in Sydney Harbor. She looked to be in good shape there--Australian athletes perform best when wet. Plying waters ringed by shark-repelling sonar devices, Jones avoided becoming fish breakfast, then took the lead in the bike race. But she could not repel Switzerland's Brigitte McMahon in the run. The Swiss held her off in a desperate finish after they had traveled a total of nearly 32 miles in two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Splash In Sydney | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...McMahon may even start other leagues, each with specializing in its own vice...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: X-Treme Caution | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...only a doomsday scenario, one that may seem "X-treme" in its own right. But given the exposure that the league will get via its contract with NBC, the local support that the franchises in smaller markets like Orlando and Birmingham will receive and astounding popularity of wrestling and McMahon himself, it is unlikely that the XFL can do anything but succeed...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: X-Treme Caution | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

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