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Staff Shots:
- On the podcast this week, I talk with Samantha Allen about retconning blame for divorce, LuFisto being just the most adorable death match wrestler ever, and Tucor Scorpio. [Episode 91: Make It Big E. Langston]
- And here's last week's show, where Butch Rosser, Ken Borsuk, and I talk a lot about the Streak and Paul Bearer [Episode 90: Human Tornado After All]
- Speaking of podcasts, here's Brandon and Danielle talking to Jojo Bravo [The Mandible Claw, episode 2]
- And here's Danielle with the Best and Worst of Impact! [With Leather]
- And Brandon has his Best and Worst of RAW [With Leather]
- Butch Rosser was "meh" on Main Event last week [Best Coast Bias]
- And here's me on why Vince McMahon should pay for Scott Hall's operation [Camel Clutch Blog]
Wrestling Links:
- Paul Bearer's passing had a great impact on everyone, and here are a sampling of fans with some beautiful words about him [The Mandible Claw]
- Here are ten of Bearer's best moments in WWE [Camel Clutch Blog]
- A note on Paul Bearer's passing vis a vis Dee O'Brien and her father [Drop Toehold]
- A heartwarming story about how Bearer touched someone's life via charity [Wrestling News Source]
- A defense of Undertaker vs. CM Punk at WrestleMania [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]
- A look at Zeb Colter before he was Zeb Colter [Kentucky Fried Rasslin]
- The ten best rivalries in WWE's modern era [Camel Clutch Blog]
- Ever thought about redesigning the WWE logo? Here are some ideas. [Drop Toehold]
- Hey, look! It's a review of WrestleKingdom 7! [Cewsh Reviews]
- KSP on the Farewell to the Impact Zone video TNA posted [International Object]
- DeAndre Jordan posterized Brandon Knight on a dunk this weekend, and someone put Jim Ross' iconic Hell in a Cell '98 Mankind/Undertaker call on top of it [YouTube]
Non-Wrestling Links:
- A fascinating longread on Senegalese wrestling, which is something of a hybrid between amateur wrestling, MMA, and the prograps we all know and love [SB Nation]
- Spencer Hall with a candid discussion about depression and social media [Every Day Should Be Saturday]
- 20 Super Mario .gifs because YOU DON'T NEED A REASON FOR THESE [Gamma Squad]
- Is the most powerful man in sport Roger Goodell? Fuck and no, says Bobby Big Wheel. [Wheel Routes]
- A review of the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco. It's much more favorable than the one I wanted to give it, that's for sure [Blast-o-Rama]
- Breakfast beer is the most awesome thing ever, so of course people are up in arms about it because people suck [Huffington Post]
- Alcoholic shots no one should ever take ever [Buzz Feed]
- Despite hating food, Gwyneth Paltrow has written a cookbook! [Jezebel]
- Richard Sherman goes on First Take and obliterates Skip Bayless [Deadspin]
- And when your biggest star comes out and lambastes everyone for their role in the above debacle, well, you know you're not sitting pretty [Awful Announcing]
- Matt Ufford on why all this comparison between the Blackhawks and the Heat and their respective streaks is dumb [The Daily Win]
- Five literary classics whose smut puts porn to shame [Cracked]
- How close will the National League East be this year? Bill Baer breaks it down [ESPN Sweet Spot]
- Jonah Keri on the guys who could make the leap this year [Grantland]
- How a brawl in the World Baseball Classic punctuates the stupidity of baseball's "unwritten rules" [Baseball Nation]
- 28 interesting general facts [Imgur Gallery]