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Morning Link Dump - 06/20/11

Obligatory Sports Babe

This morning we have Jenny Thompson, the "escort" at the centre of the Wayne Rooney affair, who-- yikes-- it says here tried to kill herself last week because she was upset at all the abuse she has taken since the scandal (and also because she was listening to a Coldplay song-- which kinda makes sense when you think about it).

Quote of the Day

What I did was dumb and I let my family and friends down. I was caught up in the moment. I want to own up to what I did and encourage others to do the same. I’m just ashamed.” - Weepy idiot 17-year-old Nathan Kotlyak, who was caught on film trying to set a police car on fire in one of the most widely seen shots of the Vancouver riots, apologizing, via Off the Bench .

Unmasked

"My grandfather used to tell a story about a wrestling show in small-town North Carolina. A reporter from the local newspaper was assigned to cover the event but he had someplace else to be on the night of the card, so he went by the arena the day of, watched the guys warming up, took some notes, and then asked the promoter who was going to win each match so that he could file his story ahead of time. He did. But, the story goes, there was a terrible storm that night, and the show was canceled. When the newspaper came out the next day with all the results listed, the townsfolk were infuriated and, in my grandfather's words, about ran the guy out of town with pitchforks and torches," writes Dave Shoemaker, aka "The Masked Man," author of Deadspin's Dead Wrestler of the Week series, now also contributing at Grantland .

"Which is to say that pro wrestling hasn't been served particularly well over the years by the world of letters, at least not in the mainstream. There have been traces: Marcus Griffin's 1937 book Fall Guys heroicals — Terry Todd's 1981 beatification of Andre the Giant and Mike Shropshire's elegiac postcareer profile of Big Chief Wahoo McDaniel. There's more I'm leaving out, but suffice it to say this isn't exactly the proud history of boxing journalism.