Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Your Midweek Links: Mania Week! Mania Week!

Bryan links this week!
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 Final Countdown: Daniel Bryan's rise to the top in ten grueling steps [False Underdog]

- A timeline of Daniel Bryan's rise to WrestleMania main eventer [SB Nation]

- A scientific ranking of all 21 of Undertaker's Streak matches [With Leather]

- 15 worst matches in WrestleMania history [Place to Be Nation]

- WrestleMania 29: Cena between The Rock and a hard place [Wrestlespective Radio]

- Professional wrestlers as college football teams [SB Nation]

- Kellie Skater, The Dirty Dirty Sheets Interview II [Dirty Dirty Sheets]

- The Mandible Claw Podcast [Episode 18|Episode 19]

- Theater of the Absurd: WWE Week in Review [The Rec Room]

- Six jobs WWE must create [What Culture]

- Seven Things: Wrestler trades [Wrestling on Earth]

- The Best and Worst of Impact Wrestling: I Choo-Choo-Choose You [With Leather]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Understanding the #CancelColbert campaign [New Yorker]

- What we can learn from the embarrassing #CancelColbert shitstorm [Jezebel]

- Gooks don't get Redskins joke [Deadspin]

- Here's Stephen Colbert's response to the #CancelColbert controversy [Gawker]

- Eight accounts of black people used as guinea pigs [Atlanta Black Star]

- Shut up about clickbait [The Concourse]

- Marine Todd is an awesomely stupid right wing meme that got hijacked [Gawker]

- Let's mock one of the douchiest op-eds you'll read all year [Kitchenette]

- Creepy things men think it's okay to say to lesbians on dating apps [ROYGBIV]

- The media's takes on Yasiel Puig are mostly one-sided [Sports on Earth]

- A painfully scientific review of the Taco Bell breakfast menu [UPROXX]

- How to fry Brussels sprouts and learn to love them at last [Foodspin]

- Canned beer is the best beer [The Concourse]

- The ten worst lines from Sally Jenkins' abysmal hit piece on the Northwestern union ruling [SB Nation]

- Starve the alligator [Danger Guerrero]

- 1869-2014: A history of college football as yelled by the Internet [SB Nation]

- Ten of the world's most dangerously toxic ghost towns [io9]

- Ten free, classic games to play in your browser [The Smoking Section]

- In defense of the word 'fuck' [Jezebel]

- Why April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year [Film Drunk]

- 20 April Fool's Day pranks that probably won't make you a horrible person [UPROXX]