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Much of the feedback is thoughtful. Some of it reinforces unfortunate stereotypes of wrestling fans.

But the Benoit family tragedy is no angle; it is chilling, real-life detail on the demise of the sport’s greatest bell-to-bell performer of the last 20 years. The reason that detail merits closer scrutiny, even in the absence of some sensational conspiracy theory, is the insight it provides into the larger pathologies of pro wrestling.

Open Letter to the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker Friday, November 21st, 2008 Dear Matthew Greenberg: The Stamford police interrogation of you on June 29, 2007, fails to […]

This morning Detective Chester Perkowski of the Darien, Connecticut, police called me.

In February — remember the good old days? — the House Energy, Commerce and Consumer Protection subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Bobby Rush, held a hearing on steroids in sports. The heads of every invited major sports or sports-entertainment organization testified, with the exception of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Vince McMahon, who said his lawyer was busy.

Below are the texts of a November 17 email to Captain Richard Conklin, supervisor of the Stamford Police Department Bureau of Criminal Investigations, and a November 17 fax to Detective Chester Perkowski of the Darien Police Department.

My Australian mate emails this clarification:

Little noticed in the controversy over the unauthorized edit by Matthew Greenberg of Chris Benoit’s entry at Wikipedia — stating, 14 hours before Chris, Nancy, and Daniel’s bodies were found, that Nancy was dead — was a second Wiki edit.

Cross-posted from freelancerights.blogspot.com Monday, November 17th, 2008 Here’s another nugget for connoisseurs of under-the-radar news: According to the Supreme Court website, the justices placed on the […]