Let’s do this. I’m going to start with some responses to columns I’ve read here on Inside Pulse.
A Fool For Tool
or
Oh No, She Didn’t
I’m sure Gloomchen is getting a ton of hate mail that she will share tomorrow from fans of Tool who didn’t appreciate her giving their new album a 4.5.
The [...]
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Wrestlemania? I Hope They Have A Cure For That
I’m going to go with the quick hits review and offer elaboration where it is warranted. And yes, some it will have to do with John Cena because a lot of you people out there are still acting like morons.
Get Your Head X-Rey-ed
But first, [...]
Haley’s Comment
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Upon Further Review
Everyone else is probably talking about it in some form or fashion this morning, so I might as well join the fun. These comments will have the feel of Anderson’s instant thoughts after he hits up the local Hooters for wrestling pay per views as I am commenting after [...]
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At The Movies
Warning: Spoilers
I rarely throw out movie recommendations to my audience, because most movies these days are stupid and not worth referring. I will make a slight exception for King Kong, however, with a few caveats.
Peter Jackson has managed to create a movie with memorable action sequences and a few [...]
Haley’s Comment
What an interesting time for me to step in as the third man in our 4-man rotation of wrestling fun here at the Pulse. I follow up Flea’s effort and the untimely death of Eddie Guerrero. FLEA doesn’t even know it, but he is my favorite writer of all-time in terms of [...]
Like all good (little) things, this column has to come to an end. At least the column as you know it, written by me. My schedule over the next few months will not allow me to watch RAW regularly, much less write about it, so I’m turning over the reigns to my good [...]
Quite conveniently, there is just about zip to report news-wise. I have been quite busy and would not have had time to offer any decent analysis had there been any. So, let me drop a piece of commentary and then we’ll hit the Little Five with Bill.
News To Me – [...]
We will go heavy on the analysis and light on the news this week as we usually do during the week after a pay-per-view.
News To Me – The Reich Stuff II
Well, the Bradshaw controversy has pretty much passed and the results were just about as I predicted last week. A reprimand from WWe to [...]
Well, it looks as if another bombshell dropped, but this time my tardiness allows me to be the first to voice my opinions on it.
News To Me – The Reich Stuff
As 411’s resident Bradshaw apologist, a lot of people are already asking what I think of his recent firing from CNBC and about [...]
We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s start with the links (because I really liked one of the columns this week) and then hit the news.
Missing Links
Melchor gives some space to Ryan Boman, where he makes a comparison between the rising popularity of NASCAR and professional wrestling. This is a fantastic [...]
It’s another slow news week, so let’s start off things differently as it will launch me quite nicely into some thoughts about RAW, SmackDown and so on.
Readers’ Picks – Now That’s What I Call Wrestling, Volume 1
This entry, sent by Dan McGillis might be the best thing I’ve ever found in my inbox [...]
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Fair And Balanced II – The Wrath Of Haley
They say that stereotypes arise from a certain grain of truth. I am certainly aware of the IWC stereotype and have occasionally run into those types via email. Ya know the ones I’m talking about: Chris Benoit-loving, HHH & Undertaking-hating, workrate fanatics [...]
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News To Me – Fair And Balanced
According to 1wrestling, everyone is bracing for the worst buyrate in years as Judgment Day approaches. The Bradshaw/Eddie feud sucks, only 3 matches are set and SmackDown! Is basically being treated like Thunder was vis a vis Nitro.
There are several things about this blurb that irk [...]
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No News Is Good News
Slow news week this week, so I thought I’d base the entire report around the Little Things. This makes sense as the hottest topic around the IWC seems to be how good RAW has been lately. Yes, a positive note sung in unison by a large group [...]
As The World Turn(er)s
In keeping with current trends, as soon as I posted my news column last week, interesting news went down.
No, I don’t mean the whole NWA:TNA/ROH/TV deal story that a few people have wrote about on this site. Personally, I have never watched the show, so I cannot comment on the quality [...]
Anything going on in the news worth commenting on? Not really. The whole Steve Austin thing is a circle jerk in my humble opinion. He’ll be back in two shakes of a sumo wrestler’s tail. Probably in an attempt to prop up SmackDown!.
I think it must be stated in [...]
It really does hurt, though. A weekend of complete inebriation at the horse track has left me with quite the nasty cold, so this report shall be brief.
Besides, if the last month has shown us anything, it’s that there will be major news as soon as I send this column off to [...]
Let’s start out with some much-needed praise for our columnists. I’m doing a bad job with the links, but I assure you it is because my head is turned in about five different directions at once while I write this, not because the columnists aren’t producing some fine material. That’s why I call [...]
This report will be pretty direct this week. I have a ton of things to do and not much time to do them in. So, let’s see what the news says to start.
Balancing Act
So we are through the first two shows where the new talent has appeared and done their thing. Dupree [...]
Eric did his usual fine job of recapping the major points of analysis from this Monday’s draft. I’d like to add a few of my own:
Tag Teams, Back Again
This column has been on the record in stating that tag teams are an underutilized tool available to the fed for developing interesting characters and stories. [...]
Well, another week has passed and yet another batch of exciting news goes down after my column is posted. I had just gotten around to addressing the Rob Feinstein fiasco when Brock decides to up and leave for the NFL, WM XX goes down and Vince decides to shake up the rosters on both [...]
A Not So Fein Time
I’ve been sitting on this for about a week, so I might as well lead off with it.
I feel like since I took over for Wednesdays that there has been a drought of interesting news for me to comment on. In general, I have limited this column to [...]
News and opinion continue to meet…
News To Me – Blockbuster Bomb
So apparently there are some who are questioning WWe booking as we wind down the road to Wrestlemania. The dissenters say that there are no blockbuster matches and no big name feel to the show, especially at the main event level.
Well, no shit.
You have [...]
Sip the Chris and Get Pissy Pissy III – This Time It’s Personal
I’ve answered quite a few emails regarding my thoughts on Cena and Benoit’s path to WM XX and some news has happened related to the two, so let’s dive right in, shall we?
First, the bad news is that Cena is going to need [...]
Special thanks to reader MikeRyu V1 for renaming the column. How could I miss something that obvious?
Sip the Chris and Get Pissy Pissy II – The Return
Since I’ve had conversations with two writers on this site about Benoit, I might as well let this fly and see where the chips fall.
A lot of praise [...]
This is going to be quick and dirty, just how your momma likes it.
Sip the Chris and Get Pissy Pissy
As I said last week, there really isn’t a point in my eyes in talking about Wrestlemania speculation because it changes by the week. Last week it was John Cena jumping to RAW and [...]
Let’s start off with some news this week for a change.
A Sight To Be Cen-A
My column might become ten times more interesting if WWe decides to jump John Cena over to RAW following a possible WM XX match with HHH.
While I love this idea and the intrigue behind a match between one of [...]
A very slow news week, so let’s start off with some fun first. I was writing our Commander-in-Chief last night, to tell him that this report would be a little late, when this happened:
Gimmick Infringement
Haley: captain
Widro: o captain my captain?
Haley: you’re on the hot seat
Haley: who wrote that
Haley: cmon widro, this is [...]
The Little Things
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1. How Cute Are You?
In my last report, I called for more spontaneous commentary out of the new stars of RAW in the hopes that it could help get their characters’ personalities more over with the crowd. Randy Orton stepped up.
To begin last night’s show, Randy told Lillian to get [...]
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The Little Things
I try to keep my promises.
1. Below The Belt
You can’t ask for better PR than this. Clinton Portis unleashes 5 touchdowns and 218 yards rushing against the Chiefs a couple of Sundays ago and his teammates give him the belt for his deeds. In this case, a [...]
A Little Hello
Last week, I announced my plans to drop the old column and do a more debate-oriented news report. I’d say two responses were related to the arguments I made last week. The others were demands for my head over killing The Little Things.
Well, unlike the “E†in a lot of cases, [...]
A Little Farewell
After about a year on the job, I have finally graduated up to weekly news guy. I am taking over a spot normally reserved for the guy that brought me to this site while he does damage on 411 Black.
Cool deal.
This would probably be a good time to officially retire [...]
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Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
I think my absence last week may have had to do something with Virginia and the Skins losing consecutive games. There is only so much a guy can take. However, the Cavs beat up on a cupcake in Troy St. and the Skins avoided losing (so what [...]
I’m working double duty this week, but like I said on Sunday, I did not fail to entertain Hyatte’s readers. I will certainly not fail my own readers, either.
Let’s do this.
Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
Virginia loses on the road to Clemson in OT. This not only costs us in the conference standings but, [...]
So…
I am sitting at my computer at around 8 p.m. EST trying to calculate every single yard, sack and touchdown that occurred in my fantasy football matchup this week.. Suddenly, I get an IM from His Holiness, Widro. He wants me to fill in for Hyatte’s Midnight News column and would like something [...]
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Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
I got the pleasure of seeing an amzing come-from-behind win over a pesky Wake Forest squad in Charlottesville on Saturday. A 52-yard kick to tie it and a pick and 38-yarder to win it in the last minute and change. The win was so good that I [...]
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Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
I improve to 3-0 in the staff fantasy football league since Denver decided to throttle the Raiders without the help of Clinton Portis. I cannot say enough good things about Jamal Lewis and the magic of reconstructive surgery.
There will be nothing said, however, about the Redskins’ loss other [...]
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Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
I must be praying to the right God(s). Virginia dominates Western Michigan on the road, running up 59 points on the hapless Broncos. See, a little thing like a quarterback switch can totally turn a team around. Then on Sunday, I get a come-from-behind Redskins victory [...]
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Obligatory Opening Paragraph About Football
This is the right and privilege of every 411 writer it seems and I will not let mine go to waste. My cable was restored in time for Thursday’s opening night game and my ‘Skins gave me hope for the new season. At least for one week. [...]
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This column is special because it will be the only column I write for awhile. I lost all of my cable last Thursday (apparently the Do It Yourself Network and Speed TV aren’t just some oddball channels one gives away for free) and I will not get it back for another two [...]