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Last September this blog ran a controversial report on what I speculated was a suicide attempt by World Wrestling Entertainment’s Randy Orton. By any name, the incident in 2006 illuminated lifestyle and WWE drug-testing issues that were pertinent in the wake of the Chris Benoit rampage of June 2007. Now Orton, married and a new father, is said to have had a motorcycle accident, reinjuring a broken collarbone that has been keeping him out of action.

Reprint of SLAM! Wrestling Column ‘Strange Case of the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ Saturday, August 9th, 2008 [originally published at SLAM! Wrestling on August 4 under the […]

Obama Need Not Worry As McCain Woos ‘Wrestling Demographic’ Thursday, August 7th, 2008 [originally published in Beyond Chron on August 5, http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5942] by Irvin Muchnick As […]

Media Coverage of Benoit Author Muchnick’s Connecticut Information Appeal for Wikipedia Hacker Police Video Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Stamford Advocate August 6, 2008 “Author files FOI […]

McCain, Obama, and the ‘Wrestling Vote’ — Today at Beyond Chron Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 TODAY IN BEYOND CHRON (just named “Best Local Website” by the […]

‘Strange Case of the Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ at SLAM! Wrestling Monday, August 4th, 2008 I recently filed a complaint with the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission […]

Benoit Author Muchnick Radio Interview Links Friday, August 1st, 2008 WOC AM 1420 Davenport, Iowa Morning Show with Sean Patrick see the podcast page at http://www.woc1420.com […]

The Senate Office of Public Records has posted 2008 second quarter filings by lobbyists, which are required under federal law. They show that April, May, and June were fairly slow months in Washington for World Wrestling Entertainment.

Author Irvin Muchnick discusses the mystery of the “Benoit Wikipedia hacker” in an interview with Sean Patrick on WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa, Friday, August 1, at 6:35 a.m.