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January 26, 2009
AC/DC to Piledrive Wrestlemania
Daniel KramerDo people still watch professional wrestling? We stopped watching when the Rock left to make awful mummy movies and Stone Cold Steve Austin started fighting women instead of other dudes in black Speedos. That, and we graduated high school. Nonetheless, World Wrestling Entertainm ... More >>
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January 29, 2009
Oh Noes!! Mickey Rourke Drops Out Of Wrestlemania!! (Danny Bonaduce Still Available, Though)
Houston, you have had a tough few months.Ike hit. The Texans missed the playoffs. And now -- most crushingly of all -- comes news that Mickey Rourke won't be coming to Wrestlemania after all.Of course, this being professional wrestling, things may change a half-dozen times before the event. Still, a ... More >>
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May 23, 1996
Sputnik at Colonus
Houston, you have had a tough few months.Ike hit. The Texans missed the playoffs. And now -- most crushingly of all -- comes news that Mickey Rourke won't be coming to Wrestlemania after all.Of course, this being professional wrestling, things may change a half-dozen times before the event. Still, a ... More >>
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May 23, 1996
Roots Rasslin'
At Tugboat Taylor's gym, would-be wrestlers are taught the eternal verities: It's more fun to be a heel, but heels always lose.
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March 4, 2009
WrestleMania In A Dispute Over A Charity Event; No Chairs Hurled (Yet)
Logo courtesy WWEIn the world of professional wrestling, there appears to be a smackdown going on outside the ring.Hair Balls was alerted to this controversy after reading an article in Professional Wrestling Insider -- one of our favorite sources of news about big sweaty thespians pretending to bea ... More >>
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May 6, 1999
Dependable. Reliable. Ken Hoffman.
Logo courtesy WWEIn the world of professional wrestling, there appears to be a smackdown going on outside the ring.Hair Balls was alerted to this controversy after reading an article in Professional Wrestling Insider -- one of our favorite sources of news about big sweaty thespians pretending to bea ... More >>
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May 27, 1999
Are You Ready to Rumble?
Logo courtesy WWEIn the world of professional wrestling, there appears to be a smackdown going on outside the ring.Hair Balls was alerted to this controversy after reading an article in Professional Wrestling Insider -- one of our favorite sources of news about big sweaty thespians pretending to bea ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
WrestleMania: A Beginner's Guide
Gonna be upfront here: I don't get the whole pro-wrestling thing. Never did.I grew up in New Jersey, where every pizzeria had a glossy shot of Bruno Sammartino on the walls, but it just never took.With that in mind, here is my analysis of the matches in the upcoming WrestleMania 25, which is the sin ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Wrestlers, Art, A Library & Bill White: The Madness Arrives
Cameras flashed, the crowd oohed and ahhed, and WWE superstar Jeff Hardy carefully painted a nose onto an oversized white canvas. The WWE onslaught that culminates with Sunday's Wrestlemania XXV eased its way into Houston this evening in an unusually genteel (and slightly unsettling) fashion - ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
The Best Wrestler Theme Songs of All Time
With Wrestlemania in town for its 25th anniversary, Rocks Off thought we could take a little stroll down memory lane and relive some of the WWE's best wrestling theme songs. Nowadays, the WWE can afford to purchase the rights to slick, well-produced songs by popular music acts such as Saliva, O ... More >>
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April 9, 2009
The Big Show
WrestleMania XXV brings out 72,000 fans and Mickey Rourke.
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June 12, 2003
Reality Bites, Slams and Spears
The WWE floods Houston with Bad Blood
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June 19, 2008
WWE’s Smack Down!
Double Down with twice the action at this uproarious show
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January 10, 2008
Doomsday VIII: The Pink Menace
Gulf Coast All-Star Wrestling is on the lookout for Precious Jewels
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December 27, 2007
Christmas Chaos 2
Pro Wrestling Alliance star Booker T takes on RVD
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December 27, 2007
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Pro Wrestling Alliance star Booker T takes on RVD
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April 26, 2007
The Condemned
Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not
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December 28, 2006
Our top DVD picks for the week of December 28
Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not
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July 7, 2005
Montrose Mayhem
The fighting is real (fun) at Doomsday Wrestling
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May 5, 2005
We Want the Funk
An '80s wrestling star relives his days of chain saws and headlocks in More than Just Hardcore
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March 24, 2005
Beach Balls
Kick it soccer-style at Galveston's Fiesta de Agua
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December 30, 2004
Triple H-town
Toyota Center gets "Raw" when WWE rumbles into town
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April 1, 2004
A Tall Order
The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't quite fit
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November 13, 2003
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
The Rock tries on Joe Don Baker's shoes for size, and they don't quite fit
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September 5, 2002
Late-Night Access
Packrat thinks Leno is after its stash
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March 29, 2001
Wham, Bam, Thank You, McMahon
Wrestlemania X-Seven enters the ring
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August 13, 2009
The Young and the Restless
Welsh indie-pop scamps Los Campesinos! live for the moment.
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October 14, 2009
Midweek Match-Up: U2 Vs. Wrestlemania In The Battle Of The Spectacles
As you well know if you've been reading our sister blog Rocks Off (and Lord knows you should be), U2 is in town tonight.The new tour requires something like 90 huge trucks to cart around the massive stage they use so as not to detract from the quiet beauty of their ballads. Or to keep the people in ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Game Time: My Plea To In-N-Out Burger...Let Me Speak For You
I host a sports talk show for a living, four hours a day, five days a week. That's a lot of air time to fill, so you can imagine the number of hotly debated topics that arise during a regular twenty hour broadcast week. Just over the last few weeks on our show, we've seen John Harris and Rich ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Game Time: At That Moment, Jerry....I Tell You, The Texans WERE A Playoff Team!
"So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys, I was terrified! But I pressed on and as I made my way past the breakers a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things but I tell you Jerry at that moment I was a marine bio ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Game Time: 2010 Fiesta Bowl....Thanks For Coming, TCU
The winner and NEEEWWWW Intercontinental Champion...the Boise StateBRONCOS!!!-- me on Twitter last night after the Fiesta BowlFor those of you who don't get the analogy, I'll give you the back story. In professional wrestling, World Wrestling Entertainment (known better by the acronym WWE) has th ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Game Time: Shawn Michaels' Most Memorable Moments (With Video)
Professional wrestling is one of those things that, if you're a sports fan as a kid, you probably dabble in at some point. I think at one time or another all of my childhood friends went to the matches at the Hartford Civic Center; somewhere along the way, usually as a teenager or young adult ... More >>
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April 1, 2010
Get In The Ring: How 7 Wrestlers Match Up With Their Rock-Star Lookalikes
While rock stars wrestle with their inner demons, the performers of the WWE wrestle with other people. A rock star may cut himself because he just needs to feel something; a wrestler will cut himself because it's the championship pay-per-view event and needs to look more intense. The rock stars ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Game Time: NBA Free Agent Summit: The Four Horsemen Guide to 2010 Free Agency
Worldwide Wes, pulling strings"The only time this much havoc had been wreaked by this few a number of people, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" -- Arn AndersonAnd with that seemingly throwaway line during a wrestling promo, one of the most entertaining fact ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
The Undertaker Gets Married In Houston, And We Weren't Invited
After a honeymoon, the couple will reside....IN HELLSocial news reaches us from Wrestling Inc that The Undertaker, a very famous wrestler amongst those who follow such things, was married here in Houston this past weekend.The bride was one Michelle McCool, who also participates in the wrestling a ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
WWE Raw World Tour
Sure, it’s fake but it’s still fun
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October 26, 2010
The 7 Basic WWE Metaphors For Real Life Situations (w/ video)
Let's get ready to....examine life!!!I'm working on my 2009-2010 NBA Preview which should be done by tomorrow. I hope that some of you will cut me slack given that a whopping three games will be in the books by the time it gets posted here on Hair Balls, including the Rockets opener against the L ... More >>
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December 31, 2010
Year in Review Appendix -- Five More Stories For The Road
One more for 2010...I love the last week of December. Between Gary Kubiak and the option to just pick out some category from the past year and recap it, it's ready-made content. Just add snark! So in the spirit of lazy "Year in Review" style posts (one of which I've already submitted today! ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
The Most Illegal Wrestling Move of All Time!! (with VIDEO)
Never violate the international rulesAnyone who knows me well (or listens to me on the radio, which is practically the same thing as my radio persona is not exactly a closed book when it comes to my personal life) knows that I am a huge fan of professional wrestling. I've been to about a hal ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
The Four Best Final Fours of the "One Shining Moment" Era (w/ VIDEO)
Hopefully more shining and less Hudson this yearSome of you mistook my piece on Monday as my not being excited for the Final Four this weekend in Houston. That couldn't be further from the truth. I am incredibly excited to have the event here in our town, for a couple reasons: 1. I'm a Con ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Undertaker's 18-0 Wrestlemania Record -- The Definitive Anthology (with VIDEO)
Yeah, it's Final Four weekend in Houston. We're all very excited. But a little secret (that's not very well kept) -- for me, the Saturday and Monday games are a mere buffer surrounding Wrestlemania Sunday, baby! This year is special because Houston's very own Undertaker (real name Mark Calloway, Wa ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Golf -- My Masters Facelift
Cue the pyro and short skirts....First, for those asking, my second annual recap of Jim Rome's Smack Off radio show will be up tomorrow sometime. If you missed my first one last year, it was a true tour de force. It, too, went up nearly four days after the actual event, so my procrastination ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Finally...the 2011 Jim Rome Smack-Off Recap
Glory days, well they pass you by...."It's good to be in something from the ground floor, but I came in too late for that. But lately I get the feeling that I came in at the end, that the best is over." -- Tony Soprano In the first three minutes of the greatest television show of all-time, ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Mark Cuban Hit In The Face With Flying Projectile; Video of Five Times He Deserved It
Mark Cuban: We have the video evidenceApparently, at the end of Game 3 of the Maversicks-Blazers series on Thursday night in Portland, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was pegged in the face with a mysterious unidentified object. While I don't condone the anonymous launching of projectiles a ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Randy "Macho Man" Savage (1952-2011) -- A Video Anthology
R.I.P., Macho ManIn 1999, I was invited by my buddy Ken Hoffman of the Houston Chronicle to go to lunch with Randy "The Macho Man" Savage. Having grown up a child of the '80's, I was absolutely giddy. (Giddiness factor for me was a fraction of Hoffy's, although admittedly that had more to do ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Top 10 Musician WTF Hobbies
Zazzle.comMusicians are weird. Well, the good ones, at least. It's a little-known, beloved factoid. While artists' news, drama, and private lives are sometimes aired to the point of over-saturation, it becomes more interesting when we learn relatively kept insight into their rockers' offstage ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Saluting C.M. Punk With 5 Awesome Wrestling Promo's (w/ Video)
C.M. Punk lights up TwitterIf you're plugged into social media, the new litmus test for the relevancy of a show, a sporting event, a singular occurrence is "Did Twitter react?" And if they did react how heavily did the reaction clog your Twitter feed. I am a fan of professional wrestling. I ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Women's Soccer World Cup -- Getting My Japan Hate On, 1980's WWE Style (w/ Video)
We sports hate you, Mr. Fuji.I'm not going to lie, I'm looking forward to the finals of the Women's World Cup for soccer this Sunday. Three reasons: 1. I'm American, and Sunday we have a chance to be the best at something. If it were tiddlywinks, I'd watch. 2. I have a 13 year old daughter ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
6 Wrestling Finishing Moves That Would Suck at Stopping Riots (w/ Video)
Your riot-control specialistI am admittedly not always the most up to speed on current events. I'm a generally selfish person. If it has nothing to do with my a) job, b) family, c) friends, d) bank account or e) need to satisfy hunger pangs, then whatever "it" may be gets thrown on the back b ... More >>
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November 25, 2011
Some Perspective On Ndamukong Suh's Cheap Shot (w/ VIDEO)
You put your right foot in....In what was easily the most significant Thanksgiving Day game played in Detroit in the last ten years, the Green Bay Packers ran their record to 11-0 by beating the Lions pretty soundly 27-15. After the game, the big story had nothing to do with the Packers' cha ... More >>
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