There are off air notes and Heat spoilers from last night in Omaha, NE. The Smackdown crew was in Joplin, MO last night with Eddy Guerrero over Kurt Angle. Smackdown is being taped in Kansas City, MO tonight.

The New York Times has an article on "legitimate" athletes becoming professional wrestlers with comments from Jim Ross and Bradshaw on some of the cross-over stars. Lita is excited about return to Mexico for WWE's upcoming house show in Monterrey. Smackdown will be taped in Toronto, ON on June 1, and it may also be the site for Summerslam.

Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit will be the guests on Thursday's Byte This! Chris Jericho and Fozzy performed after RAW last night in Omaha, NE at the Ranch Bowl with several other wrestlers in attendance. Fozzy will headline the March Metal Meltdown in Irvington, NJ on March 12.

Trish Stratus and Eddy Guerrero commented on their MADtv appearance taped last week to air on March 13. Dr. Tom Prichard's latest commentary is about Eddy Guerrero's title win and doing motion capture work on the next WWE video game. Goldberg did a TV interview while he was at the Edmonton Oilers/Detroit Red Wings NHL game.

PWInsider has a listing of extras for the John Cena: Word Life DVD. Intec has acquired WWE licensing to create a Wrestlemania XX video game controller as well as other future WWE branded hardware. Gregg Oliver at SLAM examined some of the upcoming wrestling books including the ones written by Bobby Heenan and Ric Flair.

Dove Canyon Films and the Butterfly Group are reportedly working on a movie about the life of Sting. Total Film magazine mentioned Kevin Nash's role in Punisher but credited him as a "WWF Superstar." Jeff Hardy's band Peroxwhy?gen has released an mp3 single you can download.

Tomorrow night's NWA TNA PPV will feature Raven/Sabu vs. the Gathering, Vince Russo, AJ Styles vs. Abyss in a tables match, 3 Live Kru vs. the New Franchise, America's X Cup Captains match with Teddy Hart vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. ?, Simon Diamond vs. Johnny Swinger, and Chris Harris vs. one half of the Naturals. WORLD-1 is retiring the PWF Heavyweight Championship and replacing it with the WORLD-1 Openweight title with Low Ki remaining the title holder.

SLAM's Jason Clevett covered the chance of success for a number of Canadian independent wrestlers in 2004. Mae Young, Jim Duggan, Killer Kowalski and Gary Michael Cappetta have been added to the March 13 FAN SLAM convention in Totowa, NJ. Virginia's Pringe George High School's marketing class is organizing their second professional wrestling event after their Rural Rumble in the fall proved very succesful.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.