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Ravens to take swimming lessons from super-fan Michael PhelpsWhen it comes to taking swimming lessons, the Baltimore Ravens are going to learn from the best.,Michael Phelps, a Ravens super-fan who happens to own 28 Olympic swimming medals, committed Wednesday to sharing his expertise with the players who don't know how to swim.,Cornerback Marlon Humphrey post...

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Vince McMahon's Defiant Paranoia Was Shaped By His Steroid TrialTwenty-five years ago this week, at the now-shuttered federal courthouse in Uniondale for the Eastern District of New York, WWE chief Vincent Kennedy McMahon was acquitted on charges of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids. It was a pivotal moment in wrestling histor...

Getting A Medal From Donald Trump Fits Jerry West All Too Well

Have you ever seen Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Lonely Island’s 2016 mockumentary about a very specific kind of post-Obama cultural success? It’s a good movie. Funny gags, and some insight into the sort of of-this-moment famous person who is transparently drowning in narcissism but also d...

After Two Decades, Owen Hart's Death Is Still WWE's Darkest Hour

If you were a wrestling fan on May 23, 1999, you were probably doing one of three things. One of those was watching WWE’s latest pay-per-view event, Over the Edge. Another was using “scramblevision” to listen to that event by tuning a TV or VCR without a cable box to the pay-per-view channel. Some f...

Portland Wronged The Jail Blazers More Than The Jail Blazers Wronged Portland

Late last year I attended a jersey release party thrown by the Portland Trail Blazers and Trillblazin, a Trail Blazers-centric independent clothing concern. The Cleaners, a gallery in Portland’s Pearl District, was flooded with people looking to get free t-shirts and tote bags, and looking at a doze...

After 18 Years Away, TNT Is Back In The Wrestling Business

Last Wednesday, All Elite Wrestling and WarnerMedia made a longstanding wrestling rumor official when they announced that the startup promotion’s flagship show will air weekly on TNT beginning this fall. No financial terms were revealed in the initial statement or at the upfronts, and neither was a ...

Today's WWE Began With A Tragic Injury And A Devastating Legal Defeat

It’s a cross between a family value and a corporate one, but WWE is notorious for not settling lawsuits. They will when they have to, as in the fight over the rights to the gimmick of the Demolition tag team, but even then they dragged it out for just over a decade before finally making the call. Th...