Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Your Midweek Links: Johnny Football and Blading

No blood on purpose, John
Photo Credit: WWE.com
It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Wrestling Links:

- The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 109: Ms. Deathlock [Sign of Van Hammer]

- Question: Should deliberate bleeding be banned from pro wrestling? [The Only Way Is Suplex]

- The Merch Table: It came from eBay [Wrestling on Earth]

- The Best and Worst of RAW, 8/5/13: Hey Paul, say something stupid [With Leather]

- Hey, IWA Mid-South: Here are five reasons you should book Gary Jay [The Mandible Claw]

- The myth of the curtain jerk [On the Raggedy Edge]

- Question: Is this the stupidest news article about wrestling ever? [The Only Way Is Suplex]

- National League teams as professional wrestlers [SB Nation]

- Jumped the Shark: Sting [Wrestling on Earth]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Explaining Steroids: Interview with a PED Expert [Amazin Avenue]

- Twitter traded Hunter Pence to the Red Sox [SB Nation]

- The hope of a hopeless MLB trading deadline, five years later [Baseball Nation]

- 8 children's film franchises that tried - and failed - to be the next Harry Potter [Flavorwire]

- What even Riley Cooper knows [SB Nation]

- Editorial: Examining the Rovell story [Good Bull Hunting]

- The NCAA, Johnny Manziel, and who should and does own a man's name [Wide Left]

- Jay Bilas takes the NCAA to task over player likenesses in their online store [Campus Union]

- Kirk Ferentz reveals he drove 35 MPH in a 25 MPH zone [Black Heart, Gold Pants]

- Screw the narratives [The Footbawl Blog]

- Yale officially declares "non-consensual sex" not to be a big deal [Jezebel]

- Six games Nintendo could (realistically) make to turn the WiiU into a must-have system [Gamma Squad]

- What could have been: A Legend of Zelda movie pitch appears [Blast-o-Rama]

- Why The Rock should [have been] the next Dr. Who [UPROXX]

- Does Spotify prove Lars Ulrich was right all along? [Flavorwire]

- Drew Magary on why he hates "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" [The AV Club]