Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Your Midweek Links: Corgi Football!

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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 Thread Count: A Fashionable History of Wrestling's Law and Order [With Spandex]

- Re: WWE Network isn't the streaming Champion Vince McMahon wants it to be yet [International Object]

- Keep it in the bleachers [Voices of Wrestling]

- The Internet had a lot of fun with JBL's $9.99 sign [With Spandex]

- Badass moments in wrestling history: Kurt Angle assaults Eddie Guerrero [TJR Wrestling]

- The Best and Worst of RAW: Blood, Vomit, and Urine [With Spandex]

- The Merch Table: 1992 WWF Spring/Summer Catalog Special [Wrestling on Earth]

- Top-down Smackdown: Five wrestlers who are better in movies than in the ring [Topless Robot]

- TNA Impact (July 31) review [Voice of Wrestling]

- The Best and Worst of Impact: Destination X - DESTINATE HARDER [With Spandex]

- Wrestler Ted DiBiase finds a new audience at ballgames [Sports on Earth]

- Interview: Jonny Moss talks about his new wrestling school [The Only Way Is Suplex]

- An introduction to Revolution Pro Wrestling [Voices of Wrestling]

- Vintage Best and Worst: Starrcade '96 [With Spandex]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- It's come to this: A corgi's preseason top 25 [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- Steve Spurrier on East Carolina vs. the Big 10 and SEC isn't trolling, it's common sense [CFB Huddle]

- "Variance:" Why the 2014 Eagles might be "better" but finish the same [Bleeding Green Nation]

- Do We Like This? The Field Goal [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- Wanny Doodhead, Mandy Ross, and other NFL spoonerisms [SB Nation]

- How not to reform the NCAA [Regressing]

- What about the maturation of Peter King? [Deadspin]

- All it took was access for Peter King not to treat Cam Newton like crap [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- ON sportswriting [What a Fool Believes]

- On women and sports [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- If you can't handle the heat: Sexism in restaurant kitchens [Groupthink]

- Shajar al-Durr [Rejected Princesses]

- Survey shows heightened pregnancy risk among gay and bisexual teens [ROYGBIV]

- A map of the US had there never been a Mexican-American War [io9]

- Staff Picks: Worst highways in America [SB Nation]

- Police arrest Montreal Canadiens meth kingpin [Puck Daddy]

- Guardians of the Galaxy continues to close Marvel's Gauntlet around Avengers 3 [Polygon]

- All the Marvel movies ranked [Film Drunk]

- Five superhero teams weirder than the Guardians of the Galaxy [Dorkly]

- Eight women Marvel characters who could carry their own movies [Pajiba]

- The sad saga of Korra, or how a network screws over its fans [Observation Deck]

- Five kid's cartoons that won't send you into a murderous rage [Pajiba]

- Idiocracy is a cruel movie and you should be ashamed for liking it [PaleoFuture]

- Ten characters from A Song of Fire and Ice we'll probably never get on the Game of Thrones series [Dorkly]

- The Diamondbacks' disgrace, or a list of things Kirk Gibson can kiss [Grantland]

- 14 things you might not know about The Legend of Zelda [Kotaku]

- Eight totally free games to kick boredom's ass [Cracked]

- What it's like to eat the Diamondbacks' 18-inch corndog [SB Nation]

- TH Cooks: Guacamole [Holzerman Hungers]

- No taco should cost $6 [Domesticity]

- How to make clam chowder like real fackin' New Englanders do, maybe [Foodspin]

- The potato salad Kickstarter ends with $55,000 raised [Polygon]

- 18 underrated beers [The Concourse]

- James Hetfield's seven most metal moments without Metallica [UPROXX]

- Barn weddings are a pox on rural communities nationwide [Jezebel]

- The best way to build your brand is to fuck pigs, but Darren Rovell [Kissing Suzy Kolber]