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A (Very) Concise History of Racism in Wrestling, 1980-Present
The following is an excerpt from David “The Masked Man” Shoemaker’s new book, The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling. It has been slightly modified for this publication. If you...
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I am here to start a fight, because I’m a man and that’s how I solve problems. I’m not here to help you. I am here to fucking hurt you. That’s what I’ve learned in my years as an NFL fan. You have an...
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2013-14 NCAA Basketball Preview: The SEC
Although I am tempted to just write “KENTUCKY” and make that single word my entire SEC preview, there are actually a few other subjects in the conference worth discussing. For instance, there are...
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The Greatest Trick Comedy Ever Pulled
In 2003, a made-for-TV movie directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring an unknown stand-up comedian named Perry Caravello aired a handful of times on Comedy Central with virtually no fanfare. The...
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Horror Story
We’re a mere 108 days from the 86th annual Academy Awards, and America remains firmly not in the grip of Oscar fever! Can you feel the growing throb of vague, half-aware expectation mixed with polite...
View ArticleThe Art of the Sports Hoax
As the sports leagues get increasingly uptight — you can’t crack a joke in the NFL without the express written consent of Roger Goodell — we look for the guy who is not following the script. The dude...
View ArticleSmart’s Choice
He wanted to have a childhood, he said. He was 19 and maybe he deserved one. The first time through, he’d been too angry, too scared, too hurt; it was something else, not childhood. He grew up in South...
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Art of the Steal
The pills popped in American Hustle are prescription, but the movie has a strange druggy energy. It could never pass a sobriety test — not because it’s drunk, but because it’s mentally off. Everybody...
View ArticleSpeeding Motorcycle of My Heart: The Year in KimYe
“We are both sensitive people and we were hurt a lot by it. I mean, we couldn’t understand it. When you’re in love, when somebody says something like, ‘How can you be with that woman?’ You say, ‘What...
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A-oooh!
It’s rare that a tracking shot brings a tear to my eye. But there’s one in The Wolf of Wall Street that almost made me weep. Investment banker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) stands before the...
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