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It was a tough call, no doubt. I'm not sure it should have been called but I also can't blame the refs as in real time at a not perfect angle it looked a hell of a lot like a big facemask. Also I subscribe to the school of thought that you can't complain about anything when you give up a 60+ yard hail mary with no time left on the clock to a guy you borderline forgot to cover.

If the board isn't in some sort of obnoxious green color then I don't really get the point.

Not really reading related initially but... Have been playing an import picross-type puzzle game for the DS where via the filling in of giant grids you eventually get a picture. I finished up puzzle #397 of 400 earlier today and it ended up being a picture of a giant turtle... with a few elephants walking on its back... supporting a disc with a giant mountain in the middle. That put such a big smile on my face.

To be fair, if your only exposure to Sasha Banks is what you see on Raw then it'd be rather understandable to be confused why she is getting such praise as she's been fairly unremarkable on the big stage so far. Of course she hasn't exactly been given tons to do on said show in the months she's been around.

When I was a kid this was my favorite tag team at that particular moment, particularly after they managed to take down Gordy and Williams. I was screaming at my tv over Dustin's sheer stupidity and cheered wildly as Barry beat the hell out of him. This was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the topic title. And yes, the Sting walking out deal was great because virtually the whole year beforehand was spent with Sting refusing to stop believing in Lex Luger despite all the various bad things he was doing. Hell, if you look at Sting's entire career his fatal flaw is that he is just willing to believe in someone no matter what, which resulted in all those times he got turned on. For someone to turn around and say that they don't trust or believe him, and for that person to be Lex of all people after the previous year really was just about the worst way you could insult Sting.

Regal and sig-Funk striking the same pose makes it.

I am in no way a fan of Miz, but at the time he had potential and could carry his end of a match. He should have lost the belt to Lawler for a day, but that is not his fault. Rollins is a bigger failure as champion. Which is not really his fault, but whoever had the idea to let him ever talk. I'll admit I think the Miz is pretty good, especially during his title run, Probably one of those guys in 20-30 years who will be viewed a lot more positively than he is today, Top guy was probably a step too high for Miz but he had just about the worst booking behind him during that stretch. He was going to lose the title fair and square to the 60 year old announcer if the other announcer didn't get involved, if you aren't bulletproof then that is basically death. Miz is not bulletproof.

*ahem*

he was on austins show a while back and iirc austin did bring that stuff up. Didn't Austin go a bit nuts during his heel run and likely burn a couple years off the end of his career in short order? I recall him taking 10 straight german suplexes in a random tv match. When you are that kind of... "dedicated" to your craft you generally only decide to ease up when you are broken down, sadly enough.

More than dominant Cain was also arguably the most hyped up athlete over the past however many years, hailed as a next generation fighter who was going to take the heavyweight division to new heights (and before anyone says it, not in the "because it has always been trash" way). Even with the one loss to JDS the fact he was a bit banged up and it was a one hit KO (and more importantly the way he took JDS apart in the following fights) gave him a bit of an aura that hadn't quite converted to being a notable draw, but the hope was there. Add in that people wanted to see someone push Jones and how Jones seemed almost a bit too big for the LHW division (perhaps only in perception due to his freakish reach) and it's no surprise that the fight got talked up. That said, I think Cain constantly being hurt has taken away from said aura, and getting beaten handily by Werdum over the course of a fight (as opposed to getting caught with something) has probably taken away even more. It's been nearly two years since people have seen "Cain the Destroyer" and perhaps I am off here but I haven't sensed much excitement surrounding him now. He really could use a fight where he can just go out and smash someone, and he'd probably benefit from getting a few fights in a row in where he doesn't disappear for ages in between. Instead he gets this and it is sort of an all or nothing affair that may generate less interest than if he got to establish that "Cain's back!" beforehand. It seems less like a case of the rematch drawing more than Werdum vs anyone else and more a case of the rematch possibly doing more with each man getting another win or two first. Of course they'll likely go and put it on the same card as a Rousey fight and none of that will matter in the least.

I took "Stitch"'s comments as basically saying "take care of it or I'm quitting/getting fired" so totally not surprised to see this. You can like working someplace or for someone but if they force you to take a notable price cut and you have other options out there... this is basically what happens. You can say that he could have/should have just quit but it appears that he tried to get things taken care of in private and nothing came of it so no real harm in seeing if the public route goes any worse, he had a foot out the door anyways. Also I'm pretty sure UFC really wanted to fire someone over criticizing the Reebok deal but doing it to a fighter would have been a bad look, so if he wasn't really considering leaving then his timing was about as bad as it could be.

Duncan is top 10 all time but saying he was the best player on the last Spurs championship team is a bit of a stretch. Granted I'm not sure if you are actually arguing that or if it is just phrased a bit awkwardly...

Thanks all! Hopefully by the time I actually getting around to reading the whole Avengers run he'll be on to something else; I didn't care for Manhattan Projects, so more of that seems to be a miss for me.

Two quick related questions from someone who at this point only picks up a few TPBs a year and hence isn't totally up to date on all the current goings on. One: Does this mean that Hickman's Avengers run is over or coming to an end? I generally only go for these big story runs once they are done so I've been waiting for the day this one wraps up. Two: If so, what is Hickman up to next? I didn't see him listed on any of those reveals. I know he has a couple creator-owned series that have been running for a bit but beyond that I know nothing.

I don't know if this has been brought up before so I apologize if this is well worn territory but... not just delaying the fight is crazy, right? It's a rib injury, it is likely the top pushed fight of the year and could seemingly be run with ease in September if not August. Instead you rush the hot prospect who might not be better than pretty good into a rush-build against a guy who is both stylistically completely different and a bad style match for him... and if Mendes wins you have to run Aldo/Mendes 3 even though Aldo is up 2-0 on him (I think it'd be a good fight, but a tough sell). You even already have a title fight on the card that can stand in as a main event. I get that Aldo getting injured is more than just inconvenient but this seems very much like a fight you would try to preserve.

Yeah, there has been moments this postseason where the Cavs have had to defend 4 on 5 as Lebron is too busy complaining at the refs about a call he didn't get to actually go defend a late game possession. It is definitely an annoying trend but it's on both teams at this point.

If it was on Steam they did put their new refund system into effect a week or so back. As long as you played less than 2 hours you should be good.

Hendricks looked great in the first two rounds against Condit and looked like he had gassed out hard by the third. In a three round fight I think Hendricks has got him but Condit made him expend a ton of energy to win and in a five round fight I think that could be a difference maker.

The penalty for being a shitty free throw player being that the offense becomes terrified for you to even touch the ball is a pretty respectable one, basically limiting you to four or fewer offensive choices. The penalty being that even if the player runs off the court another one can run after him and hack him is a bit excessive. It also does a lot to take the fate of the game out of the hands of the other nine players. It is a loophole (it's not like people are getting fouled on actual basketball plays) and like most loopholes they get closed when they become too blatant.

Hunt has probably been my favorite MMA fighter/story over the past couple of years but I was sorta worried heading into this fight. It went so much worse than I had feared. There is always the chance his conditioning was just that much worse than usual and I guess putting him into the UFC's heavyweight seniors division might not be a disaster, but he's a 40 year old guy who has taken a lot of shots over the years who just ate so much more of a beating than is really justifiable (much respect for gutting it through to the end of round 3 but he should have never been allowed back out afterwards.) I love the guy but this should maybe be it.

See, I enjoyed All Star Batman & Robin a good deal as well. The thing is I also bothered to read Holy Terror (which started life as a Batman tale and really still seems like a barely changed one) and... yikes. It's the rare time I actually enjoyed Frank Miller's artwork but it is particularly not good at all. Again I am still interested but the possibility of abject disaster is very much in play (which would also be interesting).

Frank Miller writing a comic book (Batman no less) with the subtitle The Master Race in 2015 (and beyond~) can only be the most beautiful of disasters. I am 100% on board.

This may be old news, but I had to do some birthday shopping at Toys 'r Us earlier today and apparently a knock-off lego company licensed the rights to WWE and have a bunch of odd sets available. The existence of an almost lego Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman is one thing, a Wyatt swamp cabin complete with trap door and gator is another, but I think this was my favorite.

To be fair the two part season finales always seem to be the most "out there" episodes of the season.

I've been reading I, Claudius as it was a daily $2 deal on amazon a little while back. I was a bit worried it'd be a bit too historical (i.e. dry) but it actually works very well as a novel/fake-autobiography. It also has the benefit of taking place in the period of time a bit after the Rome TV show left off which made it a good historical jumping on point for me.