Evolution...?

[Avante]

How about the All Time NCAA 4x1 Relay

lane

1.USC...Lennox Miller...Andre DeGrasse...Don Quarrie...James Sanford
2.Tennessee....Leonard Scott...Justin Gatlin...Sam Graddy...Willie Gault
3.SJS...Ronnie Ray Smith...John Carlos...Ray Norton...Tommie Smith
4.TCU...Jon Drummond....Kim Collins...Darvis Patton...Ray Stewart
5.Houston...Stanley Floyd...Leroy Burrell..Joe DeLoach...Carl Lewis
6.UCLA...Mike Marsh...Ato Boldon...Henry Thomas...Warren Edmonson
7.LSU...Trindon Holliday...Glenroy Gilbert...Xavier Carter...Richard Thompson
8.UTEP...Churandy Martina...Olapade Adeniken...Oba Thompson...Steve Williams
9.Florida...Jeff Demps...Bernard Williams...Dennis Mitc ..John Capel

"B"

Ok all you experts fill this out.

lane

1.Auburn
2.Norfolk St
3.Clemson
4.Texas Southern
5.Cal
6.Grambling
7.Arkansas
8.Arizona St
9.Alabama

Now when you experts fail, I'll show ya how it's done.

[Avante]

So who can talk pre 1980 rasslin' with me?

[Avante]

Since we have so many blues afficinado's here this should be easy

I'll give the first name/nickname you simply fill in the last, easy for you blues experts.

Too Tight.....

Hambone......

Smokey.........

Baby.....

Peg Leg...........

Six Cylinder......

Sparkplug..........

Lonesome.........

Little Hat.............

Black Bottom........

Bumblebee...........

Cow Cow..........

Sunnyland.............

Homesick..........

Kokomo..........

Big Mama.........

[Avante]

Where are all the experts, hahahahaha~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Avante]

There we have it, a man vs boys.

The mentally weak and too lazy to do the work, ha~~~~~~~~~

I have no equal.

[Avante]

Where are those experts, ha~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[I. Hustle]

[Mitch]

Watya think about the Japanese wrasslin, Avante? Those guys love wresslin

[Avante]

Watya think about the Japanese wrasslin, Avante? Those guys love wresslin

Never got into the Japanese vs Japanese rasslin', but did enjoy cats like.

Sholhi "Giant" Baba...7 foot tall
Mr.Moto
Mitsu Awakawa
Kenji Shibuya
Rikidozan

...vs American rasslers.

I know the Americans who go over there love it, the Japanese being great fans.

[Avante]

So you can't answer anything......EITHER.

Ha~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Avante]

Speaking of the rasslin'

I'm going to give out the first name of a black rassler, you give me his last. With all the experts here, no problem.

Butch
Bobo
Bearcat
Savannah
Brickhouse
Iceman King
Too Cold
Shaska
Tony "Mr.USA"
Bad News
Ernie
Koko B
Ron
Sweetdaddy
Dory
Bobby
Ahmad
Luther
Shag
Earl "Mr Universe"

[Avante]

Here's what I have....

Rasslin mags from the 80's, tons! Used to have them from the 60's, why I sold them....stoo-peed~!~!

NFL Encyclopedia, 20,000 football cards. Tons of books/mags.

Track & Field News mag since 1970.

24 books on Islam, yep, read them all.

Tons of mags on them blues and 12 big books. Over 6000 blues CD/tapes.

Got into the rasslin around 1957, track around 1960, football as far back as I can remember. Them Blues in the late 60's. After 9/11 I had to know what is wrong with those freaks, so I found out.

Now who wants a little trivia contest vs Avante, in those topics? Where are those experts at?

[Mitch]

Never got into the Japanese vs Japanese rasslin', but did enjoy cats like.

Sholhi "Giant" Baba...7 foot tall
Mr.Moto
Mitsu Awakawa
Kenji Shibuya
Rikidozan

...vs American rasslers.

I know the Americans who go over there love it, the Japanese being great fans.

I watched them a little back when I was a fan of the WWF. The Japanese have a passion for the technical part of wrasslin, not so much the storyline part

[Avante]

I watched them a little back when I was a fan of the WWF. The Japanese have a passion for the technical part of wrasslin, not so much the storyline part

Historically speaking the Japanese rasslers sucked at trying to sell any angle. Way too stoic and unanimated.

[Mitch]

Historically speaking the Japanese rasslers sucked at trying to sell any angle. Way too stoic and unanimated.

Yep, they still have a ways to go before they really compete with the WWE I figure. You watch any ECW in the 90s?

[Avante]

Yep, they still have a ways to go before they really compete with the WWE I figure. You watch any ECW in the 90s?

Sabu, hahaha~~~~ That cat was crazy. Taz, Tommy Dreamer, yep, I saw it a few times.

Just think there was a time where we had....

WWF...Hulk Hogan
WCW..."Nature Boy" Ric Flair
AWA....Rick Martel
CWA...Jerry "King" Lawler
UWF....Steve "Dr.Death" Willians
World Class....Von Erichs

Then one by one....poof~~~~~

[Mitch]

Sabu, hahaha~~~~ That cat was crazy. Taz, Tommy Dreamer, yep, I saw it a few times.

Just think there was a time where we had....

WWF...Hulk Hogan
WCW..."Nature Boy" Ric Flair
AWA....Rick Martel
CWA...Jerry "King" Lawler
UWF....Steve "Dr.Death" Willians
World Class....Von Erichs

Then one by one....poof~~~~~

Yep, the industry hasn't done too well without compe ion. WCW's compe ion was probably WWF's best asset.

[Avante]

Yep, the industry hasn't done too well without compe ion. WCW's compe ion was probably WWF's best asset.

Actually the last Wrestlemania set all time records. The WWE will always make $$$$. But when it comes to options like we once had, nope~~~~ The movement was what I liked, guys going from one company to the next, that is missed.

[Mitch]

Actually the last Wrestlemania set all time records. The WWE will always make $$$$. But when it comes to options like we once had, nope~~~~ The movement was what I liked, guys going from one company to the next, that is missed.

Really, good news for them. I thought they'd struggle with the PG transition from tv-14

[Avante]

Really, good news for them. I thought they'd struggle with the PG transition from tv-14

We'll always have the rasslin', it's a part of Americana.

[Avante]

What happened to all those experts, hahaha!!!!!!!!!!

[Mitch]

We'll always have the rasslin', it's a part of Americana.

Yep, even of wwe was done another organization would take over. It's ingrained like muscle cars and football.

[Avante]

Yep, even of wwe was done another organization would take over. It's ingrained like muscle cars and football.

Yep, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Gorgeous George, Jim Londos, Lou Thesz, "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, part of our history.

[spurraider21]

UCLA scientists unravel the genetic evolution of Zika virus

How does a formerly innocuous and obscure virus like Zika transform itself into a feared pathogen inflicting a devastating impact on global health?
A new UCLA study suggests that the virus possesses the ability to mutate rapidly, allowing the current outbreak to spread swiftly around the world. The Cell Press journal, Cell Host & Microbe,published the findings today in its advance online edition.
“The Zika virus has undergone significant genetic changes in the past 70 years,” explained senior author Genhong Cheng, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “By tracing its genetic mutations, we aimed to understand how the virus is transmitted from person to person and how it causes different types of disease.”
First isolated in 1947, the Zika virus only sporadically caused disease in Africa and Asia until the 2007 Micronesia and 2013 French Polynesia outbreaks. Scientists previously believed that infection was spread solely by mosquitoes and caused only mild illnesses.
The latest epidemic has linked the virus to fetal brain-development disorders and Guillain-Barre syndrome. New modes of transmission, including infection through sexual contact and from mother to fetus, have also surfaced.
“We don’t know why Zika infection was not associated with serious human disease, especially in newborns, until recently,” said co-author Dr. Stephanie Valderramos, a fellow in obstetrics-gynecology at the Geffen School. “We hoped that taking a closer look at the virus’ genetic changes over time would reveal clues to this mystery.”
Cheng’s laboratory collaborated with researchers at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing to compare individual genetic differences among 41 strains of Zika virus. Thirty strains originated from humans, 10 from mosquitoes and one from monkeys.
In sequencing the virus, the team identified substantial DNA changes between the strains, showing a major split between the Asian and African lineages, as well as the human and mosquito versions.
“We suspect these mutations could help the virus replicate more efficiently, evade the body’s immune response or invade new tissues that provide a safe harbor for it to spread,” said co-author Lulan Wang, a graduate student researcher in Cheng’s laboratory.
Additional study findings include:

• All contemporary human Zika strains share a genetic sequence more similar to the 1966 Malaysian strain than the 1968 Nigerian strain. This implies the strains causing the current human outbreak evolved from the Asian lineage.
• All human strains in the current epidemic resemble the 2013 French Polynesian strain more closely than the 2007 Micronesia strain, suggesting that the two strains evolved from a common viral ancestor.
• A key viral protein varied the most between the Asian human strain and the African mosquito strain, indicating a possible structural change in the virus.

Cheng and his colleagues’ next step will be to analyze the viral strains causing the current epidemic and look for genetic targets for drug and vaccine development.
“Our results have raised new questions about the evolution of the Zika virus, and highlight that a lot more research is needed to understand the relationship between the virus and human disease,” Cheng said.
The research was supported by the National Ins ute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ins utional Research Fund for Thousand Talents Program at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

[Mitch]

Yep, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Gorgeous George, Jim Londos, Lou Thesz, "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, part of our history.

Don't hear Buddy Rogers too often, he was the inspiration for Flair. Ever see this do entary, one of my favs. Got any other good ones?