Category: The Sporting Connection

Wrestling not the main event in Dick Ebersol’s memoir

Posted by Greg Oliver | Sep 15, 2022 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, The Sporting Connection

If you go buy Dick Ebersol’s memoir, From Saturday Night to Sunday Night: My Forty Years of...

Catching a ride with Sylvester Terkay

Posted by Trapper Tom Leturgey | Aug 17, 2022 | Interviews, The Sporting Connection

His face appeared on social media one Saturday morning as a Pittsburgh-area autograph promoter...

It’s true! Kurt Angle perfect Biography subject

Posted by Greg Oliver | Aug 1, 2022 | Documentary Reviews, Hollywood Headlock, The Sporting Connection

There are some people whose lives are perfectly suited for the A&E Biography treatment. Kurt...

MMA’s Valerie Loureda joins WWE

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jun 29, 2022 | News, The Sporting Connection

America’s Top Team has expanded to the WWE. MMA, Balator fighter Valerie Loureda, nicknamed...

Mike Tyson attacks man on plane

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Apr 21, 2022 | News, The Sporting Connection

As first reported by TMZ, former professional boxer and sometime pro-wrestling personality Mike...

Bulletproof Troop is looking to smoke the competition at High Rollerz BJJ

Posted by Tommy "Milagro" Martinez | Apr 14, 2022 | Interviews, The Sporting Connection

Pro wrestling and combat sports like mixed martial arts go hand in hand these days, and many like...

Celebrity Big Brother winner, former UFC champ to WWE: ‘Give me a call’

Posted by John Powell | Feb 24, 2022 | News, The Sporting Connection

She has conquered the Octagon. She conquered Celebrity Big Brother last night. Could a...

Wife’s insights make Wahoo McDaniel bio even better

Posted by Greg "Count Grog" Mosorjak | Feb 21, 2022 | Gary Howard Memorial Library, The Sporting Connection

There have been a lot of books written about pro wrestlers, some by the wrestlers themselves, some...

WWE Legends part of the ‘mania’ of the SuperBowl

Posted by Bob Kapur | Feb 14, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, News, The Sporting Connection

Full of glitz, glamour, celebrity, and spectacle – oh, and some sports action, too – WWE...

NFL great Marion Motley’s brief wrestling fling

Posted by Greg Oliver | Feb 13, 2022 | The Sporting Connection

In November 2021, I reviewed a book, The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion...

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