Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Your Midweek Links: It's All About Cena

Will he or won't he?
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It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Staff Shots:

- Not necessarily staff related, but Wrestling Bro David/Chudley Cannons is part of a Quidditch team and they need your help to get to the World Cup. Give! Give 'til it hurts like the cruciatus curse! [NY Badassilisks]

- Me and Trey Irby theoretically talk about the impending John Cena heel turn, but we go off on tangents as we are wont to do [Episode 92: Boys and Sendai Girls]

- Hey, look, Butch wrote a terrific fantasy booking character arc for Fandango [A Lead I'd Love to See Followed]

- Danielle broke down the Tim Donst promo from night 3 of King of Trios [Promo School]

- Hey, look! Danielle wrote the Best and Worst of Impact too [With Leather]

- Also, here's the Best and Worst of RAW, featuring the Triple H hate that sustains me throughout the day. [With Leather]

Wrestling Links:

- KSP on John Cena and his forked road that is ahead of him [International Object]

- The last conversation we should have about He Who Shall Not Be Named [The Mandible Claw]

- Cewsh breaks down why Alberto del Rio should retain the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania [Cewsh Reviews]

- Bully Ray needs to find out the hard way that times have changed [Last Word on Sports]

- Is Rocky's wrestling style akin to impressionism? [Wrestling Is Teleology]

- Rich Thomas went to see one of Mick Foley's comedy shows [Sad Salvation]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- A rape victim speaks out on her own experiences to put people who sympathize with the Steubenville rapists in their place [Hyper Vocal]

- One of the best takes on rape (among other things) within by the Internet's foremost dick-joke slinger, Drew Magary [GQ]

- What lies ahead for the Steubenville rapists, and why punishment without rehabilitation only creates more rape victims [Jezebel]

- 35 obsolete words that need to be revived [Buzz Feed]

- Woman who tweets about dudes being sexist douches in the tech world gets fired for said tweets. [Jezebel]

- Matt Ufford, who served in Iraq as a Marine, wrote this deeply personal recounting of his time there for the ten year anniversary of the invasion [GQ]

- Five mind-blowing facts about guns [Cracked]

- Hey, if you wanna call yourself the home of March Madness, Buffalo Wild Wings, you might wanna have March Madness on the TV [The Mighty MJD]

- And also from MJD, the five most and least valuable players in the tournament to date [The Mighty MJD]

- Facebook analytics have put together a map of rooting interests for March Madness [Deadspin]

- Florida Gulf Coast U.'s run in the NCAA Tournament so far has been so fun and awesome, so of course stodgy old white men hate it [Deadspin]

- And of course, basketball is nice, but Celebrity Hot Tub, Martin Rickman, and Bunkie Perkins know the real ca$h is in a football program, so here's how they'll build FGCU's from the ground up [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- Awesome games produced in the dying days of the consoles for which they were released [Gamma Squad]

- Using chaos theory to predict the NFL Draft [The High Phive]

- Johnny Manziel to quit Twitter and start his own Geocities page [Good Bull Hunting]

- On how superfluous gluten free diets are hurting the people who really aren't allowed to eat gluten for medical reasons [Jezebel]

- Why you should always tip your server well, even if they fart in your face [The Oatmeal]

- Boneless, skinless chicken breast need not be flavorless too [Foodspin]

- McDonald's introduces the most American burger ever in China [UPROXX]

- What would life be without the Internet, posits the latest UPROXX video [UPROXX]

- 35 ways you know you're from Philadelphia [Buzz Feed]

- Great bands that made forgettable debut records [Flavorwire]

- Mind-blowing proof that the Walking Dead and Toy Story are the same damn thing [UPROXX]

- Jon Hamm's penis has become a disruption on the set of Mad Men. Yes, that's a real headline. [Warming Glow]