Agent Risktaker

With a bank balance of just $200,000 dollars, we've got to be extremely careful with our spending. While this may seem like alot, it's pennies for running a wrestling promotion. With the payroll of both wrestlers and staff alike, we have barely any money left over to spend on promotional affairs. Still, we managed to find an old copy of Adobe Photodeluxe 2.0 laying around in Sean's room and printed out about 50 fliers promotiong our first show. I paid a couple of potheads $20 out of my own pocket if they'd put the fliers up so I'm hoping our ticket sales will be decent. Here's how the fliers turned out:

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When you think of Alabama, white picket fences and two-story houses aren't usually the first things that come to mind. Unless you've been to Fairhope, that is. Located in the far-southern tip of Alabama, the town is home to around 13,000 people -- most of whom are extremely wealthy, white, and retired. The town is something out of the Stepford Wives with freshly-mowed yards and beautiful, white houses aligning every street. The eastern part of town, however, isn't just aligned with houses but mansions. Massive houses sit about 100 yards apart, sometimes more, with long and winding driveways leading up to them and massive gates to keep intruders out. In this neighborhood, you truly feel inadequate.

And that's the setting for our story. Fairhope, Alabama isn't exactly the biggest town in the world but it is the home to one of the richest men in the United States. Maxwell Bernard III is worth, according to the most recent reports, more than $75.5 billion dollars and it only seems to be growing. The story goes that in 1940, Bernard's grandfather -- Maxwell Bernard Sr. -- founded a construction company which continued through all three generations of the Bernard's and seemingly only got bigger through each. By the time it had reached Bernard's grandson, it was the biggest construction company in North America and most of Africa. Of course, Maxwell Bernard III was sitting atop an empire worth more than he could've ever imagined.

But while Bernard was a very successful businessman -- even with a degree from Harvard -- he still had one passion that had always escaped him: professional wrestling. Bernard has always dreamed of becoming a pro-wrestler, but when he turned 25, immediately took over the family business due to his father's untimely death. Because of this, his dream was crushed before it could ever get started. But as time went on and Bernard went into semi-retirement at the age of 55, he began to think of his old dream from time to time. Obviously, it was impossible to become a pro-wrestler but he could still aspire to be a wrestling promoter. To work alongside the likes of Vince McMahon? He knew he could be a wrestling promoter. So in the first quarter of 2004, Bernard put his dream into the works.

It was alot harder than Bernard imagined, but he successfully gathered everything he needed for a wrestling promotion. The ring, of course, all the production equipment, several 'qualified' wrestlers, and a writing team. That's where I came in. My father was one of Bernard's business associates and everybody in and out of the family knew of my wrestling dreams. I'd even trained at the WWE TRAX Center in Stanford but a back injury had ended my hopes of becoming a wrestler prematurely. Even so, I continued to stay involved in the business and booked for NWA: Alabama for several months. Bernard also knew of my ventures in the wrestling business and gave me a call one day, asking if I would be interested in working for his new promotion as a writer and booker. Of course, I immediately accepted and we got together on continuing his idea.

By late October, we had already signed several wrestlers from the surrounding idea. While Bernard was extremely rich, he didn't want to put much money into the company until he was sure it was a success. So we were on the same level as say, a backyard promotion -- except that we ran out of small buildings and had a real ring. By the time November had rolled around, we were about ready to run our first show except for several small problems that could be quickly straightened out. We discussed names for the promotion from inside the venue we'd pick to run our first show -- a smelly old Middle School gym -- and it immediately came to me. RagTag Championship Wrestling.

And so begins the story of RTCW. How will it go from here?

<hr>The RTCW Roster

'The Punisher' Dominique Johnson - Face, 13 Over, Gangsta - One of our best wrestlers, physically. Fresh off of graduation, Johnson was brought into the promotion after Bernard's son put in a few good words for him. While he has the talent to succeed, his attitude and need to 'gangbang' in real life is a huge drawback and one of the reason he's not going to be one of our starting stars.

Greg 'Machine' Bernard - Heel, 25 Over, Arrogant - A total brat and asshole, if you ask me. Greg's had everything handed to him on a silver platter and was always Mr. Popular throughout high school. Even started as the schools' quarterback thanks to his dad's friendship with the coach. Will play the biggest role in RTCW and is decent in the ring, but has a piss-poor attitude.

Hammerton - Heel, 8 Over, Redneck - We found this 7'1" monster working in Maxwell's wife's garden behind their house. He's a quiet type of guy but is still extremely scary and will play a redneck heel as Robert D. Lee's bodyguard and muscle for The Confederacy.

Kingpin - Face, 11 Over, Old School Face - While he'll begin as a face, Kingpin should make a transition to a heel sometime soon. He's currently being billed as a New York crime boss and it's going to stick, but we've got a feeling that it will work better if he's a heel. May have an allie or two if we can afford to bring someone in for him.

LuNaR - Heel, 16 Over, Gothic - A very odd guy here. His gimmick isn't just a gimmick, but his lifestyle as he calls it. I've tried to stay away from this guy as much as possible and I've already discussed releasing him with Maxwell. We'll keep him for now, but I really don't like this guy and how he acts.

Milkshake - Face, 10 Over, Sidekick - A very charismatic man, which lead us to put him at a manager's position for now. He will manage Dominique Johnson, who's only weakness is his charisma. The odd thing about this is that they're really cousins, but are extremly close in real life. Could become a wrestler later on, if we can get him enough training.

Miss Rebel - Heel, 11 Over, Rebel - Will manage The Confederacy. We found Miss Rebel, who's real name is Nicole, at the local skating rink. Basically, she's here because she has charisma and sex appeal. She'll hopefully keep the boys in the back happy as well, if you know what I mean.

Robert D. Lee - Heel, 10 Over, Racist - Our oldest competitor on the entire roster at 43, Lee won't be in competition as much as his allie Hammerton will but we'll still see him in action sometimes. The leader and creator of The Confederacy, Lee claims to be the great nephew of Robert E. Lee, though he's never shown any proof of this.

Steve Fuller - Face, 5 Over, No Gimmick Needed - Middle of the road wrestler. He'll be job fodder for now, but we could revamp his character later on if he shows us some determination and become a much bigger name. As for now though, he'll try to break Goldberg's streak with losses.

The Masked Destroyer - Tweener, 16 Over, Mysterious - We had to bring in someone to play The Masked Destroyer, due to Maxwell's love for old-school wrestling. We actually got a decent wrestler to portray the Destoyer and he's got a future in RTCW due to Bernard's love for old school wrestling.

Tommy Gunn - Face, 14 Over, Martial Arts - Maxwell stole the name from his favorite movie, Rocky. An average wrestler, Gunn won't play a huge role in RTCW but will be a mainstay. He's not really that experienced in martial arts, but we've taught him to stick with side kicks and chops so the fans should buy it as long as he doesn't screw anything up too bad.

<hr>The RTCW Staff

Beulah Bernard - Medical - Maxwell's lovely wife will stand by with a First-Aid kit incase we need her to put some band-aid's on or something. Let's just hope nobody breaks anything or else we're screwed.

Jeff Mitchell - Referee - We needed a referee, so I gave my cousin in North Carolina a call. After just being busted for having about a pound of meth on him, he needed a solid job and I could provide him with one. He's hopefully clean now and he had better be, because we need him to count three in our matches!

Mark Garland - Referee - Our other referee, Garland is one of Maxwell's friends who was out of a job. We had a referee spot open and Garland was quick to jump on it.

Nana - Road Agent - My grandma. She's not the wrestling type, but we'll have her around at the events to make sure no disputes break out.

Papa - Road Agent - My grandpa. If there is a dispute, he'll be sure to settle it.

Sean Bernard - Production - Maxwell's other son, Sean is the total opposite of Greg. He's not the popular type and would take a computer over a football anyday. Stays inside most of the time and is a loner, but he was more than happy to help me with the production setup. Alot different from Greg and in a good way. He's actually nice to people, unlike his asshole of a brother.

Okay, so I got my PS2 two years ago and it looks fine, except with my NCAA Football 05. I got the game during Hurricane Ivan and brought it back with me and it worked fine for about a week. Now, however, it will only go to the logo of Playstation 2 and then go to a black screen and start making clicking sounds. But all my other games work.

What's the problem?

Alright yall, I passed the mission thankfully. If I need anymore help, I'll come back. Thanks.

Okay, so I'm on the drive-by mission early on in the game and I can't complete it. My car always blows up on the last set of Balla's. What can I do?

Did anyone else see the unedited versions? I turned it on and immediately, I'm hearing unedited fuck's, shits, and every other word that is usually bleeped out. What's going on? Is the FCC closed or something?

Whoa, they're doing the Fear thing on the Surreal Life right now. Ironic.

Haha, you guys are so funny. Seriously, did you come up with that all by yourselves? Because, that's funny. You… are good. That was funny.

YES BABY SOX WIN IT SOX WIN IT YES YES YES YES YES SOX WIN IT ORTIZ YOU SWEET FUCK YOU YES YES YES

Let's go Sox. Fucking Yankees, I hate them.

WHo remembers when he was supposed to come back to life last year?

How did that go in the end?

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Newsflash: Britney hating is out.

Your attempts to make G-Unit look bad fail once again!

Of course. My favorites are Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, and Johnny Cash though I'll turn it to a country channel and be content for the rest of the day. Anything country, as long as it's not overly dumb is fine with me.

The tape is real, but the story is bullshit and Paidy should be slapped for posting such a shitty article.

Just saw it on CNN. He died at 82, due to heart complications from his surgery earlier. Very sad, as I liked him in a lot of movies.

UCLA may have a great running game, but USC's defense will have them shut down by the second quarter. We'll probably see USC's defense go in unprepared and get scored on once or twice in the first, make some adjustments for the second quarter, and shut them down.

AR your a Florida State guy aren't you? If so why the hell has Wyatt Sexton been the backup for Rix?

Urgh, I hate how everyone automatically thinks of any football movie as a jock movie because they were the scrawny kids in school. I've read some of the book, but I'll probably enjoy the movie more.

Marshall 33, Miami (Ohio) 25

Connecticut 29, Pittsburgh 17

Navy 24, Air Force 21

Florida 45, Arkansas 30

Florida St. 38, North Carolina 16

Mississippi 28, Arkansas St. 21

N.C. State 27, Wake Forest 21, OT

Virginia Tech 19, West Virginia 13

Iowa 38, Michigan St. 16

Oklahoma 28, Texas Tech 13

Texas 44, Baylor 14

Georgia 45, Louisiana State 16

Those are the major games so far. Fresno State was also upset by Louisiana Tech. I'll have more up when NCAA updates its site. AND TOUCHDOWN NORTHWESTERN. COME ON WILDCATS, BEAT ON THOSE BUCKEYE PUSSIES.

To be honest, I'm not sure how half of these Top 25 teams got there. Sure, Georgia and West Virginia are good -- Georgia will probably be National Champions if they don't have to play USC -- but where the hell did they come from? Last year, Georgia wasn't even in the Top 25 were they? If they were, my mistake. But half these teams don't deserve to be in the top 25.

South Carolina should tear Alabama up today.

If LSU can't make a comeback, they're virtually out of the National Championship and I see it going to USC/Georgia granted there isn't an upset later in the season.

Haha, that's a joke right? I hope so, because USC will DESTROY TS.

Escaped? They dominated the fourth quarter and won the game with ease, really. Sure, it was only by a field goal, but the second half was all USC when Stanford's offense floundered and failed to capitalize on the lead. I am by no means a huge USC fan, but they surely didn't escape a lose to Stanford.

Doubtful, but you never know. Adam can always fake a lawsuit by the WWE if they don't, like several other sims have done.