An Ode to Mid-South Wrestling

As its DVD is released, a Louisiana native looks back on the promotion that helped shape his love of wrestling It was early 1997 and pro wrestling programming at the…

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Preview

Three of college basketball’s greatest coaches will be inducted on September 8 along with Gary Payton and Bernard King As a fan of the Southeastern Conference and lifelong LSU Tigers…

The Air Apparently Nots

 The retirements of Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady recollect a post-Jordan era filled with promise, overhype, and ultimately disappointment. This past summer, we reached the ten-year anniversary of the 2003…

The Chosen Ones

Nearly a decade after John Cena, Randy Orton, and Batista were anointed as the future kings of the WWE, questions still remain in its aftermath. On the Monday Night Raw…

2013 College Football Preview: SEC West

The SEC West has seen the National Champion come out of this division each of the last four years. The division looks stacked again.  Here are my predictions on what…

Summer of Brock

While The Rock and John Cena main event WrestleManias, the WWE has turned SummerSlam into an annual homecoming for Brock Lesnar. In the summer of 2002, World Wrestling Entertainment found…

The Sports Night Wars

The story that ESPN does not want you to read Back in 1994, when the young Fox Network and its entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch got in on the sports action and…

2013 Comic-Con Movie Roundup (Best of the Rest)

If there is one guarantee for fans of pretty much anything pop culture related these days, it comes in late July with the cavalcade of spoilers, reveals, and gasp-inducing sneak…

Three’s Company

The Shield and the Wyatt Family are recent examples of the long tradition of trios in pro wrestling. On Raw two weeks ago, after more than a month of vignettes…

Double Vision

When you think you have seen a movie with the same plot recently, it is not by accident. I was an employee at Blockbuster Video for many years in my…