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The results are in for the toxicology study of World Wrestling Entertainment performer Eddie “Umaga” Fatu, who died at age 36 of a heart attack in […]

The British newspaper The Sun, in an article by Simon Rothstein, cites this blog’s report on Umaga’s cause of death. See http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2872949/Former-WWE-wrestler-Umaga-was-killed-by-a-heart-attack-brought-on-by-a-toxic-cocktail-of-drugs.html. I commented for The […]

The shorthand snipr links for today’s posts have gone dead. It is a record-setting traffic day here, so the explanation is probably either dirty tricks by […]

WWE steroid investigation: A controversy McMahon ‘doesn’t need’ By Brian Lockhart, Investigative Reporter http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Sunday-subscriber-advantage-WWE-steroid-385816.php

A journalistically challenged correspondent – “The Daw,” bdawgxl@gmail.com – thinks I’m picking on poor billion-dollar World Wrestling Entertainment: “You somehow villify WWE for mentioning the fact […]

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday allowed the family of Nancy Benoit to proceed with a lawsuit against Hustler magazine for the publication of nude photos of […]

[cross-posted from Freelance Rights, http://freelancerights.blogspot.com] Tuesday, March 02, 2010 SUPREME COURT KEEPS FREELANCE CASE ALIVE The United States Supreme Court has reversed the Second Circuit Court […]

Great stuff from Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent: “McMahon ‘Reality Checks’ Independent” http://newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mcmahon_reality_checks_independent/id_24144

[cross-posted from http://freelancerights.blogspot.com] Supreme Court’s Muchnick Ruling Keeps Dream of a Fair Royalty System Alive by Irvin Muchnick Beyond Chron, March 3, 2010 http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Supreme_Court_s_i_Muchnick_i_Ruling_Keeps_Dream_of_a_Fair_Royalty_System_Alive_7869.html