Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Your Midweek Links: Extreme Roundup

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It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Wrestling Links:

- The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 98: Brandon Stroud VI [What's New, Battle Kat?]

- The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 99: Ian Riccaboni II [Figure Four Number Five]

- The Best and Worst of Impact [With Leather]

- The WWE Extreme Rules Kind-of Smorgasbord [The Mighty MJD]

- Despite all my rage...: Extreme Rules review [Juice Make Sugar]

- The Best and Worst of WWE Extreme Rules '13 [With Leather]

- The Heart Is RAW: May 20th, 2013 [International Object]

- The Best and Worst of RAW [With Leather]

- Debunking the other side of the Aries/Hemme debate [The Wrestling Journal]

- 10 more matches where pro wrestling turned real [Camel Clutch Blog]

- The five most baffling celebrity cameos in wrestling history [Cracked]

- Wrestling Is Intense 05.17.13 Live Review [PW Ponderings]

- ICYMI #1: The American Wolves vs. Bryan Danielson and Tyler Black [Wrestlegasm]

- The (WWE) Hangover [Grantland]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Transcript from the pilot of Bryce Harper's new talk show [The Fightins]

- Blaming sabermetrics for strikeouts [Baseball Nation]

- So much for "clubhouse atmosphere" [Crashburn Alley]

- CSN Houston demonstrates how fragile the growing regional sports network bubble is [Awful Announcing]

- Rape in the military: It's time for real change [Pajiba]

- My daughter was arrested, expelled, and charged with a felony for a same-sex relationship she had as a minor [XO Jane]

- Why do men keep putting me in the girlfriend zone? [Mildly Amused]

- Fuck your delicate sensibilities, I'm going to swear as much as I want [Jezebel]

- Which billionaire could you do without [Buzz Feed]

- Millennials are all "Fuck driving" [Gawker]

- Woman tried to evict her father from the home he built, so the Internet raised $138,000 [UPROXX]

- The Kings are staying in Sacramento, but the NBA is still rigged against them [Deadspin]

- Looking back at the wackiest predictions from this past NBA season [The Basketball Jones]

- TH Cooks: Roasted poblano spread [Holzerman Hungers]

- Italian Bleu Jeans: Heywood Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, CA [On Sandwiches]

- Stop the presses! Bacon hot dogs are coming to a store near you. [The Smoking Section]

- How can the New England Patriots cut a guy because he has diabetes? [Deadspin]

- What ice cream flavor is your Big Ten coach? [Black Heart, Gold Pants]

- Let's just solve all our problems and combine the Draft, the Pro Bowl, and a mini-pony show [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- College bowl tie-ins: What if we made things interesting? [SB Nation]

- Taco Tuesdays, Titus Young, and concussions [Wheel Routes]

- Gallery: Evan Mathis, guy who pees on things [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- How humans will evolve in the next million years [io9]

- Untouched for the last billion years, water locked deep in a Canadian mine holds the ingredients for life [Popular Science]

- The ten greatest Legend of Zelda games ever [Dorkly]

- Seven works of literature turned into video games [Topless Robot]

- Spoiler alerts are bullshit [Jalopnik]

- Yahoo back on top after purchasing millions of 13 year-olds' blogs [The Onion]

- Man's ghost cam catches his wife having sex with his son [Gawker]