By Wade Keller, Torch editor

-Rock hinted on a radio show in Dallas yesterday that he might be working on something involving Goldberg, which confirms rumors we've heard that WWE is making a big, big push to sign Goldberg for a match at WrestleMania. That would set up a potential WM line-up of Rock vs. Goldberg, Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle, and Triple H vs. Scott Steiner. There's also the possibility Kevin Nash will get a big push before WM and get a match against Triple H, or perhaps they would go with Michaels vs. Nash instead. Hulk Hogan also doesn't want to get left out of WrestleMania, although with him a match against Vince McMahon is more likely in line with McMahon's thinking than a rematch with Rock or a title match against either champion.

-Sting beat Lex Luger and Malice to become the WWA Heavyweight Champion last night in Zurich, Switzerland. Luger was the champ headed into the match. Also on the card: Sabu beat Perry Saturn in a no DQ hardcore match, Teo beat Puppet, Konnan & Norman Smiley beat Disco Inferno & Simon Diamond, Shark Boy beat Johnny Swinger and Spyder Webb and Frankie Kazarian in a four-way match. [Thanks to PWTorch.com reader Chris Berger of Wrestling-World.com]

-WWE Classics in the UK now shows NWA Worldwide programs from 1991-'92 instead of old Wrestling Classics shows, which it had been airing up until several weeks ago. The reason for the switch is the illegality of airing anything with the old "WWF" branding. [Thanks to PWTorch.com reader Jamie Brennan of Dublin, Ireland]

-Jeremy Borash took another shot at Sean Waltman in yesterday's "From the Inside with Jeremy Borash" press release column. "I also think Jarrett's comments on Sean Waltman were right on the money." In my VIP EXPRESS TNA PPV report on Wednesday night and in yesterday's VIP EXPRESS Keller's News & Views column, I wrote in detail about how off-base Jarrett's comments were. In short, they're criticizing Waltman for doing exactly what he told them he would do - which is refuse to work for a company that also featured Vince Russo. How that has anything to do with having no heart is beyond me.

-The Sportsman's issue of Sports Illustrated did a list of the top 100 sports books of all time and "Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George" by Joe Jares (1974). "An affectionate depiction of pro wrestling in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s when the sport had a more benign, vaudevilian flavor. Jares does a terrific riff on the masked men, ersatz Indian chiefs, 'leaping lords,' and other baddies who routinely smuggled foreign objects in their trunks." [Bruce Mitchell, who submitted this item, is proud to say he has read over one-third of the books on the Top 100 SI sports book list]

-The final episode of Saturday morning wrestling on WMC-TV in Memphis aired this morning and it was merely a rerun of an old show. It's sad to see such a long-running wrestling tradition end on such a low-key note. Then again, the reason the tradition is ending is because the interest level isn't there nor is the passion on the part of the wrestling community in that area, so it's not surprising a re-run aired rather than a huge send-off with Dave Brown, Jerry Lawler, Lance Russell, Jimmy Hart, and others who made WMC wrestling one of the best wrestling shows anywhere at times over the last several decades.

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