In 1997, Brian Pillman was found dead in his hotel room on the eve of a World Wrestling Entertainment pay-per-view show. Four years ago this month, Eddie Guerrero was found dead in his hotel room while on a WWE tour. See a pattern? Both of these premature deaths on WWE's watch and the circumstances behind them make its latest "shock" story line especially tasteless. On the morning of last Sunday's "Survivor Series" pay-per-view event, WWE posted a story on its Web site claiming that Jeff Hardy was rushed to a Boston-area emergency room after being "found unconscious in a hotel stairwell." WWE tried adding realism to the report by claiming the name of the...
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