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| Always love having Rachel Summerlyn on the show Photo Credit: Joel Loeschman |
Staff Shots:
- This week on the podcast, Rachel Summerlyn dishes about local Austin food, looking up to Jerry Lynn, and of course, her departure from ACW [Episode 87: Rachel of Light]
- Here's where I criticize PWG for their lack of including women and my fear of them leaving their excellent native up-and-comers by the wayside [Cageside Seats]
- The Best and Worst of Impact by Danielle, who just thinks Joseph Park is so ADORBS [With Leather]
- Where I lash out at Ruben Amaro Jr. for his comments that walks aren't production [The High Phive]
Wrestling Links:
- The definitive end of the "intergender debate" [Dirty Dirty Sheets]
- Hooray! Boss Lady Rachel and Sidekick Andrew are back! [Wrestlegasm]
- Chris Sims with an op-ed about the Royal Rumble and how it doesn't mean the same that it used to. [With Leather]
- Twice in a lifetime? No thanks, says Stephen Stone. [Complete Shot]
- Razor argues that the Rumble's resolutions may not be for us, but that the ride to get to those endings wasn't bad at all [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]
- The Best and Worst of the Royal Rumble, featuring Brandon Stroud going apoplectic, which is ALWAYS a good read [With Leather]
- And the Best and Worst of RAW, where Brandon asks Brock Lesnar where the heck he was the night before [With Leather]
- David Shoemaker on the Royal Rumble signaling WWE and its fans waking up from a five month dream after RAW 1000 [Grantland]
- Eamon Paton went to NWA Branded Outlaw Wrestling's New Years Show, and here's his review [Wrestlefan Writes]
Non-Wrestling Links:
- A Catholic hospital hides behind Colorado law declaring a fetus not human to avoid paying out damages to a woman and child in utero that died under their watch. [Jezebel]
- Super Bowl time means that party food is not to be trifled with. Eli Kirshtein gives you the info on how to make the best wings. [SB Nation]
- Updated Madden Super Bowl player cards! [Sports Pickle]
- Troll Tuesday examines whether New Orleans even deserves to host the Super Bowl after the way they treated Roger Goodell [SB Nation]
- The Super Bowl also means the PUPPY BOWL!, and here are the starting lineups [Animal Planet]
- A totally non-biased look at CTE! WE SWEAR! [Every Day Should Be Saturday]
- Chris Kluwe Rick-rolled Roger Goodell during his Reddit AMA [Deadspin]
- In light of the Manti Te'o hoax, here are the ten strangest things to happen in college football [Lost Lettermen]
- Te'o joins Notre Dame's rich tradition of bullshit with his escapade [Bloomberg]
- "I was one of several people duped," said Manti Te'o to a scarecrow dressed as Katie Couric [The Onion]
- Bobby Big Wheel on how the NCAA botched the Miami investigation because the body thought it was above the law [SB Nation]
- Andy Staples on the Miami investigation as well, with this piece focused on more of reexamining how strongly the NCAA should hold onto the idea of amateurism [SI]
- The 25 best sidekicks in video game history [Dorkly]
- It's the reviewer card, for douchebags who think they deserve the best service just because they're big swinging dicks on Yelp! [UPROXX]
- Castro and Plichter take a look at Trios' new location in the Philly suburbs [Doughboys]
- If alcohol had mascots like cereal... [College Humor]
- Dispelling the myth that Sacramento has worse attendance than Seattle did before it lost the Sonics [Sactown Royalty]
- How much do sports owners owe their fans? [Sports on Earth]
- The Kings being taken from a city isn't anything new. Here's how Kansas City lost the team to Sacramento [Deadspin]
- I know Gangnam Style is pretty much over (especially now that Brodus Clay and WWE have adopted it), but this less-than-one-year-old baby doing the moves in rhythm is too goddamn cute not to share [Huffington Post]
- Glee ripped off Jonathan Coulton and told him he should have been happy for the exposure he never got because his cover of the cover was never attributed to him [Warming Glow]
- The lamest music feuds ever [UPROXX]
- Which of these pilots would you watch? [Warming Glow]
- "The Best Song Ever Written about Yuniesky Betancourt" and other pop-punk inspired Brewers anthems [Miller Park Drunk]
- How can one reconcile rage against Lance Armstrong and support Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens? An attempt at answering here. [The Good Phight]
- Caring about walks and production (the inspiration for my own piece which I hope didn't come of as plagiarizing this one) [Crashburn Alley]
- Fascinating last photos of famous people [Flavorwire]
- 10 things The Mars Volta never got around to singing about [Hermitology]
