Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Your Midweek Links: Hijacking the ArRIVAL

Cena helped keep the unruly crowd under wraps
Photo Credit: WWE.com

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

Wrestling Links:

- Wrasslin' Story Time: WWE doesn't hate you, but it doesn't mean they don't care [SB Nation]

- The Best and Worst of RAW: #HijackBestAndWorst [With Leather]

- The hypocrisy of #HijackRAW [Voices of Wrestling]

- Some genius made 35 black velvet paintings of wrestlers [Deadspin]

- The Best and Worst of NXT ArRIVAL [With Leather]

- NXT ArRIVAL [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]

- Seven Things: Stages of being a wrestling fan [Wrestling on Earth]

- WWE's indie logic: On the science of wrestling and the importance of character [False Underdog]

- Top ten worst pay-per-view posters [Wrestling on Earth]

- WWE main events that should've happened at WrestleMania [Camel Clutch Blog]

- NETWORKED [Pro Wrestling Update]

- The Best and Worst of Impact Wrestling: We Have Books on TV! [With Leather]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- The Cleveland Plain Dealer speaks out against Chief Wahoo [Awful Announcing]

- 28 reasons why Black History Month 2014 was the worst ever [The Smoking Section]

- Rape, lies, and The Internet: The story of Conor Oberst and his accuser [Jezebel]

- Allen Iverson: Perfectly imperfect [Liberty Ballers]

- Adam Silver is ready for the next lockout [Hardwood Paroxysm]

- Cosmopolitan's most batshit crazy food sex tips [Kitchenette]

- El Jarocho: Philadelphia, PA [Holzerman Hungers]

- How to cook sea scallops without ruining them: The case against bacon [Foodspin]

- Yes, there are more foods that should not exist [Kitchenette]

- Seriously folks, you shouldn't be refrigerating your tomatoes [io9]

- Barry Switzer breaks down the 2014 quarterback draft class [Good Bull Hunting]

- PFT Commenter's exclusive interview with John Rocker [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- A modest proposal for NFL locker rooms [SB Nation]

- Super Mario World is the key to parallel universes [Sploid]

- I'm a trans woman and I didn't think Jared Leto deserved his Oscar [ROYGBIV]

- The ten most serious Oscar snubs in history [Film Drunk]

- You'll never guess how Terry Gilliam's mind-bending version of Watchmen would've ended [Gamma Squad]

- Watch David Byrne cover Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" [Gawker]

- Ten songs you didn't know were written about celebrities [The Onion]

- What happens when we exceed the Universe's speed limit? [io9]