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Captain Lorca had to fight for his life this week on Star Trek: Discovery — and he didn’t get much help from a classic Trek character. Lorca starts out the week on a Starfleet space station, bragging to Admiral Cornwell about all the great things the Discovery has accomplished since they fired up the spore […]
In late August, wrestling fans from all corners of the globe descended on Paris to witness greatness at the 2017 world championships. They weren’t disappointed. In a sport of constant grappling, one American proved untouchable in the arena on Boulevard de Bercy. Helen Maroulis captured her third consecutive international title to go along with a […]
GLOW‘s first season was an unremittingly fun piece of period meta-television that somehow didn’t feel forced. It had a keen understanding of how pro wrestling is not only a performance, but also one with narratives that reflect society’s generalizations about body type, ethnicity, and gender at any given period. And it showed its central characters […]
Published time: 11 Jul, 2017 19:56 A mysterious filing with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has prompted the bizarre question: Could former professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson trump a reality TV star for the US presidency? Johnson, better known as “The Rock,” has been registered as a candidate for federal office with the […]
YouTube/Impact Wrestling Despite starting out last season as a proficient rusher while filling in for Le’Veon Bell, veteran running back DeAngelo Williams currently finds himself without a team heading into the 2017 season. Free from the training camps and tape sessions of a more traditional off-season, Williams has decided to use his spare time on pursuits outside of […]
Sunday morning, the President of the United States posted a wrestling meme, which is apparently just a thing that happens in a country where Idiocracy turned out to be wishful thinking. The meme was drawn from one of Trump’s old WrestleMania appearances, in which the future Commander-in-Chief (and, clearly, his double) pummeled pro wrestling kingpin […]
I’m not what you would call a fan of wrestling. The idea of people so obviously pretend-fighting in a ring in such dramatic fashion just seems so very silly. And bro-y. Not even Mickey Rourke’s dramatic comeback in The Wrestler, which illuminated the heart and camaraderie of the sport, made me change my mind about […]
Published time: 3 Jul, 2017 10:49 Twitter says Donald Trump’s latest tweet featuring a video of the US president wrestling a personified CNN logo does not violate its ‘hateful conduct or abuse’ policy. The tweet, sent by Trump on Sunday, features video of the president’s past appearance at World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) WrestleMania event. The […]
Netflix is bordering on belligerent with the amount of content the streaming service has been offering to its subscribers lately, and if you’re looking to stay on top of it all, you should wipe your weekend plans because today marks the release of yet another full season of television. The 1980s-set series GLOW, which is loosely based on the real-life low-budget […]
GLOW is based on the real-life Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling – the outlandish wrestling competition which was a hit in the 1980s. The new series has many similarities with Kohan’s other Netflix hit, Orange is the New Black. Like the prison drama, GLOW features a diverse and mostly-female cast and is set in a typically […]
