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| The complete history that preceded this moment was detailed on Twitter this week, and it ruled Photo Credit: WWE.com |
Staff Shots:
- More important than anything else this week, GET YOUR TWB 100 BALLOTS IN! [TWB 100 Call for Ballots]
- The latest episode of the Wrestling Podcast sees the return of Samantha Allen to talk about revisionist history on divorce and TUCOR SCORPIO [Episode 91: Make It Big E. Langston]
- Speaking of podcasts, it's a two-parter from Brandon and Danielle talking about the Worst Wrestling Lyrics tournament on the most recent Mandible Claw Podcast [Part 1|Part 2]
- A bunch of people, including myself, weighed in on our favorite matches from 2012. Here's part 2 of that, including my take on Kyle Matthews vs. Luke Gallows [Dirty Dirty Sheets]
- Here's Butch on why it's a travishamockery that Andy Kaufman's not in the WWE Hall of Fame yet [Put a Ring on It]
- Hey! Best and Worst of Impact! [With Leather]
- Hey! Best and Worst of RAW! [With Leather]
Wrestling Links:
- Razor did a complete oral history on the Undertaker, Kane, and Paul Bearer last week on Twitter, and here's the transcript of it. It's really fantastic. [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]
- The "Say Something" fan from last week's RAW needs to rethink his life priorities [The Mandible Claw]
- Luke Starr on the futile nature of the WWE Divas Division [Drop Toe Hold]
- K Sawyer Paul on TNA as a land of eternal war and strife [International Object]
- David Shoemaker on the WWE's unwritten rulebook and how it is impacting WrestleMania [Grantland]
- What can wrestling and wrestling fans learn from the romantic era of literature [The Mandible Claw]
- Hey, the Phoenix Coyotes have a Championship belt they give to their player of the game! [Puck Daddy]
- How going from the indies to WWE is a lot like Irish immigration in the 19th century [The Mandible Claw]
Non-Wrestling Links:
- Venture Bros. season 5 extended trailer. My body is ready. [Blast-o-Rama]
- Wayne LaPierre needs to stop pretending he cares about rape victims to further his twisted agenda [Jezebel]
- The Steubenville rape trial ended in convictions against the defendants, but CNN thinks that those awful rapists are the real victims here [Gawker]
- The coach of those football players may have participated in the cover-up, so why does he still have a job? [Deadspin]
- Of course, the infuriating narrative of the Steubenville trial is very much a reminder that our discourse on rape is both fucked up and very complex [Pajiba]
- Fuck the Pope [Jezebel]
- Castro and Plichter set out to munch on Gennaro's Pizza in Philly, owned by the same cats who do Lombardi's in New York [Doughboys]
- Drew Magary wants to move college football to the spring. I'm not sure I agree, but it's a fascinating idea [Deadspin]
- And Barry Petchesky wants the Super Bowl in more cold weather cities than New York [Deadspin]
- Bob Costas has done a 180 on the morass in Penn State and admits that maybe the Freeh Report and NCAA's punishment may not exactly have been kosher [Black Shoe Diaries]
- Spencer Hall is a college football guy with casual NFL knowledge, but even he grasps the ins and outs of NFL free agency [The Daily Win]
- And of course, he's got that truth in his own wheelhouse, here explaining that Boise State winning 10+ games a year isn't a shock anymore [Every Day Should Be Saturday]
- Amateurism in collegiate sports is a crock of an ideal, but it's maintained because the NCAA insists on protecting robber barons who run Universities [Celebrity Hot Tub]
- Each US President by their assumed or stated NFL allegiance [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
- A guy hacked The Legend of Zelda so that you can play as Zelda. [International Object]
- The 9 worst video game launches of all-time [Dorkly]
- How season 2 of Girls sold out to The Mindy Project [Pajiba]