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Selfies:
- New staffer and super cool wrestling fan Danielle Matheson stops by to get fully initiated into TWB staff. We talk Rumble, National Pro Wrestling Day, and a bunch of other pro graps related stuff. [Episode 86: Be So Jealous]
- And hey, Danielle also did her thing over with the Best and Worst of Impact, wherein she gets SO EXCITED to see Spike Dudley [With Leather]
- Where I take WWE to task for ignoring their narrative with bullshit commentary [Camel Clutch Blog]
Wrestling Links:
- Drop everything and read Cewsh 'n Co.'s year end review awards! [Cewsh Reviews]
- Then check out Brandon Stroud's Best and Worst, because this week, he totally owns the criticism on The Rock, especially the opening segment of RAW [With Leather]
- A treatise on why AJ Lee deserved better [Drop Toe Hold]
- NXT is the best wrestling show on TV, people [The Only Way Is Suplex]
- I don't agree with this, but a well-written plea on why wrestling shouldn't be called theater [Turnbuckle Zine]
Non-Wrestling Links:
- Obviously, this is the lead story here. Manti Te'o's inspirational dead girlfriend never existed in the first place. [Deadspin]
- Barry Switzer don't need no fake girlfriends. (stay for the comments thread for EPIC RIFFING) [Every Day Should Be Saturday]
- Manti Te'o went from a white hat to a black hat, but did anyone consider the option of, y'know, the gray hat? [Celebrity Hot Tub]
- Here are eight similar sports conspiracies and why they may or may not be true [Sports Pickle]
- Of course, all the hullabaloo over Lennay Kekua is a gross injustice to the REAL victims of sexual abuse on the Notre Dame campus [Jezebel]
- This goes with both the Te'o story and the theme of the BS with The Rock in WWE, but yeah, not all victims are created equal (and that sucks) [Black Shoe Diaries]
- And just your reminder that rampant sexism isn't just the domain of wrestling fandom, it exists elsewhere, like in miniature gaming [Chickhammer]
- 50 fast facts about the Super Bowl by Jon Bois. They're text! [SB Nation]
- Shannon Sharpe lambasts Bill Belichick for not answering the press' questions after the Pats got curbstomped by the Ravens in the AFC Championship Game [Deadspin]
- Why Bill Callahan throwing the Super Bowl is the most ridiculous accusation ever, and more sports nuggets [The Mighty MJD]
- A sobering look at the second Obama inauguration [Gawker]
- A politician escapes assassination LIVE on TV... man, Bulgaria's reality programming is way better than ours [UPROXX]
- Hey, it's hockey season! Here's Puck Daddy's comprehensive prediction slate [Eastern Conference|Western Conference|Stanley Cup Finals]
- Fake movie pitches with Alison Stevenson! [Film Drunk]
- Real life chef Eli Kirshtein stopped by and gave a primer on how to make that perfect Super Bowl burger (and slapped down some noise on deep dish as well) [SB Nation]
- Sarah Sprague made beer cheese soup and kielbasa bake, so yeah, if you want to eat something good for the Super Bowl in 10 days, make these recipes [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
- Video game food made in real life [Buzz Feed]
- Dom Brown doesn't deserve this shit, Rube. [Sports on Earth]
- Nerdy questions we hope will get answered in 2013. Sadly, one of them is not "When will CBS cancel Big Bang Theory?" [Topless Robot]
- 8 PSA posters from Middle Earth [Dorkly]
