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Samoan Submission Machines
Samoan Submission Machines: Grappling with Representations of Samoan Identity in Professional Wrestling Theo Plothe1 Savannah State University [email protected] Amongst the myriad of characters to step foot in the squared circle, perhaps no ethnic group has been as celebrated or marginalized as the Samoans who have made their names in professional wrestling. The discussion of Samoan identity in the context of sport has examined Maori identity and masculinity in New Zealand, among other topics, but there has yet to be work which considers Samoans within professional wrestling. This research investigates Samoan identity through a content analysis of televised wrestling matches. This research identifies six primary stereotypes under which Samoan identity is portrayed. These portrayals of Samoan characters, I argue, flatten the representation of this ethnic group within wrestling and culture at large. Keywords: Samoans, identity, representation, gimmicks Introduction Among the myriad of characters to step foot in the squared circle, perhaps no ethnic group has been as celebrated or marginalized as the Samoans who have made their names in professional wrestling. This research investigates the identity of Samoans within professional wrestling, and the different ways they are constructed and presented to audiences. “Gimmicks,” characters portrayed by a wrestler “resulting in the sum of fictional elements, attire and wrestling ability” (Oliva and Calleja 3) utilized by Samoans have run the gamut from the wild uncivilized savage, to the sumo (both in villainous Japanese and comically absurd iterations), to the ultra-cool mogul who wears silk shirts and fancy shoes. Their ability to cut promos, an important facet of the modern gimmick allowing wrestlers to address their opponents and storylines, varies widely as well, but all lie within their Samoan identity. -
ON the TAKE T O N Y J O E L a N D M at H E W T U R N E R
Scandals in sport AN ACCOMPANIMENT TO ON THE TAKE TONY JOEL AND MATHEW TURNER Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University February 2020 he events that enveloped the Victorian Football League (VFL) generally and the Carlton Football Club especially in September 1910 were not unprecedented. Gambling was entrenched in TMelbourne’s sporting landscape and rumours about footballers “playing dead” to fix the results of certain matches had swirled around the city’s ovals, pubs, and back streets for decades. On occasion, firmer allegations had even forced authorities into conducting formal inquiries. The Carlton bribery scandal, then, was not the first or only time when footballers were interrogated by officials from either their club or governing body over corruption charges. It was the most sensational case, however, and not only because of the guilty verdicts and harsh punishments handed down. As our new book On The Take reveals in intricate detail, it was a particularly controversial episode due to such a prominent figure as Carlton’s triple premiership hero Alex “Bongo” Lang being implicated as the scandal’s chief protagonist. Indeed, there is something captivating about scandals involving professional athletes and our fascination is only amplified when champions are embroiled, and long bans are sanctioned. As a by-product of modernity’s cult of celebrity, it is not uncommon for high-profile sportspeople to find themselves exposed by unlawful, immoral, or simply ill-advised behaviour whether it be directly related to their sporting performances or instead concerning their personal lives. Most cases can be categorised as somehow relating to either sex, illegal or criminal activity, violence, various forms of cheating (with drugs/doping so prevalent it can be considered a separate category), prohibited gambling and match-fixing. -
SS Lazio V Villarreal CF
Olimpico Stadium, Rome 21/10/2004 21:00:00 (Local Time) UEFA Cup Group E, Matchday 1 S.S. Lazio v Villarreal CF MATCH OFFICIALS Referee Michael Weiner (GER) Assistant Referee Markus Scheibel (GER) Assistant Referee Olaf Blumenstein (GER) Fourth Referee Stefan Trautmann (GER) UEFA Delegate Bernard Carrel (SUI) Referee Observer Muhittin Bosat (TUR) Reporter Francesco Corda (ITA) MATCH BACKGROUND Though Italian and Spanish clubs have met on a regular basis in UEFA club competitions since 1955, it is the first time that both S.S. Lazio and Villarreal CF have met each other. Vast experience A Spanish club provided the opposition for Lazio’s finest achievement, when, coached by Sven-Göran Eriksson, they won the last UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1998/99 with a 2-1 win over RCD Mallorca at Villa Park. This will be the 12th game between Lazio and Spanish clubs in UEFA club competitions and Lazio have four wins, five defeats and two draws from the previous matches. The 2003/04 Coppa Italia winners have made a resolute start to this season’s campaign with two 3-0 wins over Ukrainian club FC Metalurh Donetsk to reach the group stage. Strong impression Villarreal made a strong impression in last season’s UEFA Cup, reaching the semi-finals before losing to the eventual winners Valencia CF 1-0 on aggregate with only a Mista penalty separating the sides. On their way to the latter stages, Villarreal met AS Roma in the fourth round winning 3-2 on aggregate after Sonny Anderson won the tie with a goal in a 2-1 defeat at the Stadio Olimpico. -
Cricket Exhibition in South Africa
The Hindu Images/Cricket Exhibition List of selected images Sr. Image Number + Object Name Thumbnail Caption/Remarks No. (arc_NICAId) 1. 46694 - SHEWAG - 06_08_2002 CRICKET: SUMMER SPICE SERIES, TEST MATCH, BLOEMFONTEIN: INDIA VS SOUTH AFRICA: VIRENDER SEHWAG, WHO SCORED A FINE CENTURY ON DEBUT, ACKNOWLEDGES THE CHEERS FROM THE CROWD AND DRESSING ROOM. PHOTO N.SRIDHARAN| 2. 853939 - 21_02_2003 - 20.28.59 - WORLD CUP 2003, SOUTH AFRICA: World PIETERMARITZBURG Cup 2003,Pietermaritzburg: From right: Mr Ajit Kumar Indian Consul General, Durban, Ms Ela Gandhi, Mayor Hloni Zondi (Black Shirt) unveil a Plaque on M K Gandhi at the Pietermaritzburg Station watched the Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly as Rahul Dravid applauds on Friday. PHOTO: THE HINDU / V_V_Krishnan, 21-02- 2003. | 3. 965011 - 21_03_2003 - 11.18.35 - WORLD CUP World Cup 2003: Second CRICKET 2003 Semi-Finals: India vs Kenya: Sourav Ganguly receives the Man of the Match award from Ian Botham at Kingsmead, Durban on March 20, 2003. Photo: V_V_Krishnan 4. 965167 - 21_03_2003 - 11.45.27 - WORLD CUP World Cup 2003: Second CRICKET 2003 Semi-Finals: India vs Kenya: Sourav Ganguly exults as he gets his century at Kingsmead, Durban on March 20, 2003. Photo: V.V.Krishnan 5. 971619 - 22_03_2003 - 17.47.27 - WORLD CUP World Cup 2003:Final: CRICKET 2003 FINAL, INDIA VS AUSTRALIA India Vs Australia : Australian captain Ricky Ponting and Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly on the eve of the Final at Wanderers. (10-03-2003) Photo: V_V_Krishnan 6. 976547 - 23_03_2003 - 20.21.49 - WORLD CUP World Cup 2003: Final: CRICKET 2003 FINAL, INDIA VS AUSTRALIA India Vs Australia: Ricky Ponting off Javagal Srinath at Wanderers on March 23, 2003. -
STILL SAINTLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS David Wilson on the Questionable Charms of Hansie Cronje
DAVID WILSON THE NIGHTWATCHMAN STILL SAINTLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS David Wilson on the questionable charms of Hansie Cronje Equipped with a theatrical streak, 7 April 2000, in a bombshell move, Hansie Cronje could recite reams of Delhi police charged Cronje with Hamlet by heart and seemed to embody fixing the results of South Africa’s the Hamlet line that reads: “One may one-day internationals against India smile, and smile, and be a villain.” the previous month. On 11 April, he was sacked as captain and promptly Twenty years ago, the last time deserted by his sponsors. He had the World Cup was held in the UK, tarnished his country and the game. Cronje committed his first striking transgression when he donned an “The damage done to South African earpiece to hear tips from coach sport is already immense, and the Bob Woolmer during his side’s match serious inquiry into the sordid against India, in leafy Hove of all places. details has not even begun. Many South Africans will have woken up Only one month later, just before the this morning feeling an intensely epic 1999 World Cup semi-final against personal hurt,” wrote Mike Selvey in Australia, Cronje was unabashed by the Guardian. Circling back, Selvey the incident, according to an Electronic said that across South Africa, banners Telegraph report. What’s more, he said professing love for Hansie would he was glad all-rounder Lance Klusener be unfurled. had got his first batting failure out the way – a generous remark, as the In a June 2000 Observer article, earpiece incident sank of the radar. -
Cobbling Together the Dream Indian Eleven
COBBLING TOGETHER THE DREAM INDIAN ELEVEN Whenever the five selectors, often dubbed as the five wise men with the onerous responsibility of cobbling together the best players comprising India’s test cricket team, sit together to pick the team they feel the heat of the country’s collective gaze resting on them. Choosing India’s cricket team is one of the most difficult tasks as the final squad is subjected to intense scrutiny by anybody and everybody. Generally the point veers round to questions such as why batsman A was not picked or bowler B was dropped from the team. That also makes it a very pleasurable hobby for followers of the game who have their own views as to who should make the final 15 or 16 when the team is preparing to leave our shores on an away visit or gearing up to face an opposition on a tour of our country. Arm chair critics apart, sports writers find it an enjoyable professional duty when they sit down to select their own team as newspapers speculate on the composition of the squad pointing out why somebody should be in the team at the expense of another. The reports generally appear on the sports pages on the morning of the team selection. This has been a hobby with this writer for over four decades now and once the team is announced, you are either vindicated or amused. And when the player, who was not in your frame goes on to play a stellar role for the country, you inwardly congratulate the selectors for their foresight and knowledge. -
Performance Studies, Sport, and Affect in the Twenty-First Century
Performance Studies, Sport, and Affect in the Twenty-First Century by Kelsey Blair M.A., University of British Columbia, 2014 M.A., University of Toronto, 2010 B.A., University of British Columbia, 2007 Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences © Kelsey Blair 2019 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Spring 2019 Copyright in this work rests with the author. Please ensure that any reproduction or re-use is done in accordance with the relevant national copyright legislation. Approval Name: Kelsey Blair Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Title: Performance Studies, Sport, and Affect in the Twenty-First Century Examining Committee: Chair: Clint Burnham Professor Peter Dickinson Senior Supervisor Professor Dara Culhane Supervisor Professor Coleman Nye Supervisor Assistant Professor Ann Travers Internal Examiner Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Susan Bennett External Examiner Professor Department of English University of Calgary Date Defended/Approved: April 16, 2019 ii Abstract Richard Schechner, one of the founders of performance studies, urges scholars to expand their conceptualization of performance to include a broad spectrum of framed and/or displayed human behaviours. While this call to action has strongly influenced the interdisciplinary impulse of performance studies and prompted important cross- disciplinary investigations between performance genres such as theatre, dance, performance art, political performance, ritual, and play, sport has remained under- theorized in the field. In this project, I begin to fill this gap by approaching the practices, activities, and events of twenty-first century sport through the lens of performance studies. -
Author Title / Notes of VRG and References in Her Articles from Her Bibliography Cards Type Location Adamsheck, Beverly Kenchreai
PUBLICATIONS IN THE FILES OF V.R. GRACE (in alphabetical order) Author Title / Notes of VRG and references in her articles from her bibliography cards Type Location Adamsheck, Beverly Kenchreai. Eastern Port of Corinth, IV. The Pottery, Leiden 1979. Book Bookcase Ακαμάτης, Γιάννης Μ. Πήλινες μήτρες αγγείων από την Πέλλα. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της ελληνιστικής Photocopy Bookcase κεραμικής, Διδακτορική Διατριβή, Επιτηρίδα της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής, παράρτημα αρ.61, Θεσσαλονίκη 1985. Note: “SAH: pp.498-515, pls.317-324” Ακαμάτης, Ιωάννης Μ. “Η Αγορά της Πέλλας κατά το 1989”, ΑΕΜΘ 3 (1989) [1992] 75-84, pl.85-90. Photocopy Bookcase Ακαμάτης, Ιωάννης Μ. Πήλινες μήτρες αγγείων από την Πέλλα. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της ελληνιστικής Photocopy Bookcase κεραμικής, Δημοσιεύματα του Αρχαιολογικού Δελτίου αρ.51, Αθήνα 1993. Note: “SAH: pp.322-323, pls.314-318” Akko, Land and Sea excavations, University of Haifa, Department of the History of Pamphlet Bookcase Maritime Civilizations, no date. Albright, William The Archaeology of Palestine, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1949. Bound Bookcase Foxwell book Alexandrescu, Petre “L’importation de le céramique attique dans les colonies du Pont-Euxin avant les Offprint Bookcase guerres médiques”, RA 1973, 23-38. Αλεξίου, Στυλιανός “Ανασκαφή εις Αγίαν Πελαγίαν Ηρακλείου”, ΑΑΑ 5.2 (1972) 230-244. Offprint folder 391 “Greece - Islands: Crete - various” Amiran, Ruth and “A new scheme for the sub-division of the iron-age in Palestine”, IEJ 8 (1958) 171- Offprint Bookcase Aharoni, Y. 184. Amiran, Ruth Ancient Pottery of Erez-Yisra’el, Jerusalem 1959. Pamphlet Bookcase Amiran, Ruth and “A Canaanite-Hyksos city at Tell Nagila”, Archaeoloy 18 (1965) 113-123. -
Hedging Your Bets: Is Fantasy Sports Betting Insurance Really ‘Insurance’?
HEDGING YOUR BETS: IS FANTASY SPORTS BETTING INSURANCE REALLY ‘INSURANCE’? Haley A. Hinton* I. INTRODUCTION Sports betting is an animal of both the past and the future: it goes through the ebbs and flows of federal and state regulations and provides both positive and negative repercussions to society. While opponents note the adverse effects of sports betting on the integrity of professional and collegiate sporting events and gambling habits, proponents point to massive public interest, the benefits to state economies, and the embracement among many professional sports leagues. Fantasy sports gaming has engaged people from all walks of life and created its own culture and industry by allowing participants to manage their own fictional professional teams from home. Sports betting insurance—particularly fantasy sports insurance which protects participants in the event of a fantasy athlete’s injury—has prompted a new question in insurance law: is fantasy sports insurance really “insurance?” This question is especially prevalent in Connecticut—a state that has contemplated legalizing sports betting and recognizes the carve out for legalized fantasy sports games. Because fantasy sports insurance—such as the coverage underwritten by Fantasy Player Protect and Rotosurance—satisfy the elements of insurance, fantasy sports insurance must be regulated accordingly. In addition, the Connecticut legislature must take an active role in considering what it means for fantasy participants to “hedge their bets:” carefully balancing public policy with potential economic benefits. * B.A. Political Science and Law, Science, and Technology in the Accelerated Program in Law, University of Connecticut (CT) (2019). J.D. Candidate, May 2021, University of Connecticut School of Law; Editor-in-Chief, Volume 27, Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. -
GULF TIMES Takes Fi Rst Motogp Win at Mugello SPORT Page 7
FOOTBALL | Page 4 NHL | Page 6 Liverpool fans Bergeron line streets to powers Bruins honour Europe to 2-1 Stanley winners Cup series lead Monday, June 3, 2019 MOTORCYCLING Ramadan 29, 1440 AH Ducati’s Petrucci GULF TIMES takes fi rst MotoGP win at Mugello SPORT Page 7 2019 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP Inspired Bangladesh add to South Africa’s agony Mushfiqur and Shakib in record partnership as Bangladesh post 330; Mustafizur scalps three to restrict Proteas to 309 Reuters But South Africa, who lost to London hosts England at the same venue on Thursday, were unable to keep the brakes on and continued to angladesh piled up their leak runs right to the end of the highest one-day in- innings. ternational total and Mahmudullah hit an unbeaten bowled superbly to up- 46 and Mosaddek Hossain scored Bset South Africa by 21 runs in the 26 runs off 20 balls as Bangladesh Cricket World Cup at The Oval smashed 54 runs off the last four yesterday. overs. It was a major scalp for Bang- “It was one of our top innings. ladesh, underlining their reputa- We’ve had some previous upsets tion as dangerous outsiders at the but this is a World Cup where we tournament, while South Africa really want to do well,” said man- slumped to their second succes- of-the-match Shakib. sive defeat. “It’s the way we wanted to Mushfi qur Rahim and Shakib Al start, you cannot get better than Hasan put together a record part- that.” nership as Bangladesh made 330 South Africa had gambled on for six after being put into bat. -
January-July
PCB Highlights 1 January – 31 July Stepping up to the fore in the ICC • PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani was reappointed in the prestigious role of Chairperson of the ICC’s Financial and Commercial Affairs Committee (F&CA) after 17 years. He is the only Pakistani to chair one of the ICC’s most important and influential committees. No other Pakistani has ever served on this commitee • Ehsan Mani, during his previous term as ICC F&CA Chairman, was instrumental in commercialising international cricket in 2000 by leading ICC to sign its first-ever commercial deal worth $550m; this was followed by a second deal in 2006 worth over $1.1bn, in which he played the lead role • Pakistan Cricket Board Managing Director Wasim Khan was appointed as a full-member CEO of the ICC Women’s Cricket Committee. • Sana Mir was included into ICC Women’s Committee as one of the three current player representatives. • PCB General Counsel, Barrister Salman Naseer, has been included in the ICC’s Safeguarding Panel • The PCB’s revamped Media, Communications and Digital department joined the ICC in the celebration of the launch of the World Test Championship and organised a fan poll to select the greatest Test match in the country’s history to date and also paid a tribute to all 236 Test cricketers. Introducing the Managing Director The Pakistan Cricket Board has a vision to become the highest performing and most credible cricket board in the world. For the achievement of this key objective Wasim Khan, a renowned cricket administrator, was appointed as the Managing Director. -
UK Bribery Digest
UK Bribery Digest Edition 14 September 2020 UK BRIBERY DIGEST | EDITION 14 CONTENTS WELCOME Click to continue 1 | UK Bribery Digest Edition 14 | September 2020 Regulatory and enforcement landscape: Guidance released for an effective compliance programme Over the last 18 months we have seen a significant encourage more effective collaboration between key volume of updated compliance guidance being issued players within an organisation. by regulators and enforcement agencies. Whilst these releases are from regulators and As part of their Operational Handbook, the Serious enforcement agencies in different jurisdictions, Fraud Office (SFO) released the ‘Corporate Co- due to the increasingly global reach of white-collar operation Guidance’ in August 2019, and in crime legislation and the increased cross border January 2020, released an updated chapter on the cooperation between enforcement agencies, ‘Evaluating a Compliance Programme’. a multinational corporation would be naïve to focus on a single framework. Instead, most global With little to no warning, in June 2020 the United businesses set a standard which at least meets States Department of Justice (DoJ) also released • Transparency International — Business principles the requirements of all the leading legislation and updated guidance on the ‘Evaluation of Corporate for countering bribery guidance. By way of example of the increasingly Compliance Programs’. This was followed with an global nature of guidance, the latest FCPA Resource • United Nations Global Compact — The ten updated