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The idea behind the brand split is to enhance talent who are underutilized, and to make new stars. Under WWE’s model before the split, it was difficult for new stars to emerge, and other wrestlers got buried on the depth chart. With most of the bigger names appearing on both Raw and Smackdown...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/16/europe/tiziana-cantone-sex-tape-suicide/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist Four days ago, 31 year old Tiziana Cantone of Naples, Italy committed suicide by hanging herself in her aunt's home. The catalyst for said event was a high-profile sex tape she had made...

About three months ago, there was a doctor in Pittsburgh who was over-prescribing pain medication to about 25% of his patients-all on Medicare and Welfare- medications such as Vicodin and Percocet. The silent agreement he had with said patients was that he would then buy the excess pills back...

A disclaimer here, as I'm not blaming Chris Lollie whatsoever for what happened here. But there are certain situations-especially with law enforcement-where cooperation goes a long way. In 2007, I was out with a female friend who had just bought a brand new Porsche. As in, she bought it at the...

I'm not normally one to pile on and accuse the police of brutality and crossing the line, though I'm aware that it happens all the time. Most of it, I believe, is simply in the process of doing their jobs. Protect and serve comes to mind when I think of that. However, I find the actions of these...

Should be close to that of the ones exiting the mouths of every NBA owner and GM with a player on the team(in private), and subsequently, the players on the team.(in private) It's nice that most players -here's looking at you, Stephen Curry- have decided to stay and honor their commitment to...

I've seen and read so much on the common ground between the two over the past few days, some that I've written in the past myself. All of this, of course, comes on the heels of the suicide of Robin Williams, who asphyxiated himself with a rope. I've read little on Williams himself and his...

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not condoning or agreeing with what he said. For those out of the loop-of which I'm sure there are few- Smith is a Sportscaster on ESPN's First Take, their morning talk show that focuses on all the happenings in sports in the previous day. They were...

As I read my morning paper today, I came across a story that caught my interest. In it, there was a vicious attempt at murder, as a bicyclist's throat was slashed. The man who committed the act, one Anthony Scholl Jr. of Pittsburgh, received a sentence of 7 to 14 years in prison, which will be...

I know the action in the wrestling sections have been down because of the WZ Tournament, but I'm hoping to get some decent responses here. It's an interesting topic that I got from listening to Chris Jericho's podcast. On Jericho's podcast, he mentioned Undertaker and the end of the Streak...

Overshadowing the NBA playoffs and the Stanley Cup Finals is the "aledged" racist phone call made by Donald Sterling. A recording of a phone call between Sterling and former girlfriend, V. Stiviano, showed incredible racism towards African Americans...

For a Pittsburgh teen with developmental issues such as comprehension delays and anxiety disorders, the cost was a $25.00 fine, a disorderly conduct conviction, and a felony charge of wiretapping. The latter was dismissed, but the teenager is due in court in 8 days to appeal the disorderly...

In looking at this article, I couldn't help but first think of the Ian Watkins rape scandal. Watkins, the former lead singer of the band Lostprophets, is serving a long stretch in England for numerous sexual offenses against children, one of which included a sexual offense against a one year old...

It seems that Jason Collins' impact continues to grow. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10754694/derrick-gordon-umass-basketball-player-becomes-first-openly-gay-ncaa-division-player Only days after sitting down with his family, friends, coach and teammates, Derrick...

In Deleware 2009, Robert H. Richards the IV was convicted of raping his daughter, who was a toddler at the time. Name sound familiar? Richards is the heir to the massive Du Pont family fortune, who initially made their money in gunpowder manufacturing. So why was Richards, a child rapist of the...

In an interesting case from Arkansas, a woman was arrested while eating dinner at an Italian restaurant with her parents and her six year old daughter when an off-duty waitress who was at the restaurant for a staff meeting called the police. The police promptly arrested the woman for endangering...

But with a catch, writes William Cohen, a CNN staffer. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/opinion/cohan-underage-drinking-duke/index.html?hpt=ju_t4 The catch would be to get rid of the the 0.08% threshold for drinking and driving, which, I suppose, the law is letting a person do(drink and drive to...

It's a short piece here, but I encourage you to watch the accompanying video as well, as it touches on what I really want to talk about here. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/justice/johnny-cash-grandniece-dead/index.html?hpt=ju_c2 The short of the story is this: Courtney Cash, a beautiful...

Not that I'm suggesting the states who have it do, as I have mixed feelings on it. Further, I'd like to try and avoid turning this into a case of arguing for and against. However, it would be foolish of me to say that those still unsure but closer to the line of saying "Let's abolish it", the...

But not in the way you think. It's not about the money, Mark Johnston of Ventura, California insists. It's about the principle behind it. And for Johnston, the principle is that while gambling at the Downtown Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, he blacked out from drinking so much alcohol that the...