WWE NXT Coming to Pittsburgh June 11 at Stage AE

TribLive WWE continues to branch out with their developmental territory. The stars from NXT will be coming to Pittsburgh on Thursday, June 11, at Stage AE on the North Shore. If you’re a professional wrestling fan from the old days, you have to see NXT. If you’re a professional wrestling fan who loves the product today, you have to see NXT. The shows are full of energy with smaller, more intimate crowds. It has an old-school studio wrestling type feel to it with a classic format of storytelling. The shows are also done with the big-budget production to adhere to WWE’s production quality and standards. This, plus the unbelievable things the men and women of NXT do in the ring lives up to any wrestling show you have gone to recently.

When RAW was in Pittsburgh back in March I was disappointed I did not pop on $90 floor seats.

Having sat on that floor for Royal Rumble 2014 I was chomping at the bit for more action but ultimately decided against it since Raw is a lot less action than a PPV and about half filler. It turned out I made a good decision since it mostly center around Randy Orton’s return, peppered in a great Paul Heyman promo, and a weird Wiz Khalifa performance.

Fast forward a month and a half an the preeminent WWE reporter, Pittsburgh’s own Justin LaBar broke the news that NXT, the division of WWE that still wrestles, will have a show in June at Stage AE.

This is the show to cough the dough up for. Start to finish it features established guys trying to grab that brass ring and make enough of an impression to move on to the next level, the grand stage at WWE.

PSA: Google Now Allows You To Download & View Your Search History


TheHill Google is famous for keeping discreet tabs on how people browse the Internet in order to market ads back to them and point them toward the websites, videos and services they want. Now, it’s possible for the average Web user to get a slice of some of that information. Over the weekend, an unofficial Google blog highlighted a new feature that the Internet giant had quietly rolled out to let people download their entire Google search histories. To find everything they’ve ever searched for, users should go to Google Web History, click the gear icon and click “Download.” “Create an archive of your search history data,” the Web company promises. In a few moments, it sends an email with downloadable cache of data about people’s past searches.

Here’s Google coming out hot and putting the whole world on notice. As sad of a topic it may be, its important to make preparations in the event of an untimely death. Who takes care of your family, your house, yada yada yada. The most important thing to worry about prior to any man’s demise is who is going to clear your internet history? Everyone need a “Shovel Buddy” in their entourage that they can entrust to make that history disappear.

The last thing anybody wants is for their legacy to go up in a cloud of smoke when a loved one inherits their technology and comes across some barnyard website in the history. There is no one there to provide any narrative for why you were researching average penis lengths for hours on end. There is no one there to provide context that you were taken hostage by a YouTube Black Hole which segued into a Wikipedia Black Hole and your intentions were never dick length but instead, vagina depth.

Today Google changed the game when it was revealed that in addition to your computer saving the websites you visit, they are also going to save every single search query. Now instead of quickly deleting your webpage footprint via a simple Ctrl+H and click of the delete button, you have to worry about where your searches are ending up.

If you’re interested, here are instructions how to download your own search history. The good news is it only saves if you are logged into your Google account. If you however are like me and are usually signed into Google, you may not want to look at yourself in the mirror after this. There may a great deal of drunk Googling you never remembered and you may have some splain’ to do.

Thankfully if you want, you can clear everything that’s in there now. Looking ahead however, it is up to you to make sure you have your ducks in a row when it’s time to go to a better place and have your support staff available to clear your histories.

Is Joe Maddon Punking Me With This Jacket?

What the hell is going on here. This is straight out of my mothers closet where she’d grab any jacket, slap some letters on it and convince me it was authentic gear. 

You seriously telling me he can’t find a better looking jacket?  Ashton Kutcher has to be in the clubhouse laughing his ass off.  

Here Joe let me help you, and lucky for you its on sale. 

  

Projecting The 2015 Steelers Schedule 

  

Quite a doozy of a schedule. We knew the teams but now that we have everything we can get a good look at the ebb and flow of 2015. 

The schedule is anchored on both ends by some tough road match ups against  top competition. We already acknowledged a loss in week one in Foxboro, just too much to overcome especially without Bell. 

From there a win in their home opener ahead of another away game in St Louis. The Rams are a defensive minded team but again without Le’Veon it will be too much for Ben and company to overcome. 

The middle of the season is filled with a lot of pretenders and hopefully can allow the team to gel ahead of a gauntlet that includes a game in Seattle and home games to the Colts and Broncos. With question marks surrounding the holes in the secondary the NFL was nice enough to give the Steelers some time to figure it out and hopefully give them a chance against Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, and Peyton Manning. 

Overall I see a 9-7 season, going 5-1 in the division. The Ravens have a knack for staying relevant but with the Ohio teams continuing to under achieve I think winning the NFC North is a real possibility.

BREAKING NEWS: Your Team, Your Town, Your Pittsburgh Steelers Playing on Opening Night

We knew the defending champion Patriots would get the first game of the year on Thursday Night Football.  We also knew their eight home games would be against the Bills, Dolphins, Jets, Jaguars, Titans, Eagles, Redskins,
and Steelers. Ruling out the Bills, Dolphins and Jets since they likely wont go divisional opponent week one, and lousy teams like the Jags, Titans, and Redskins we had a 50/50 chance.

It will be nice to get this bloodbath out of the way early this year.  Can’t wait for all the “clever” people out there to pick fun at neither team having their running back since they got busted for weed last August.  Just to have a dog in the race lets go ahead and call this game the “Smokers Bowl.”

Does This Look Like the Face of a Guy Who Botched Carving ‘666’ on his Forehead After He Forgot He Was Looking in a Mirror?

Mirror A hapless prisoner botched an attempt to carve ‘666’ onto his own forehead after he forgot he was looking into the mirror. Nikko Jenkins was left more than just red-faced after the numbers came out backwards in the bungled self-mutilation stunt. The inmate is said to have told a judge during a recent telephone hearing of the irreversible mishap. He carved the fabled ‘sign of the beast’ made famous in the classic horror movie The Omen, backwards — making them look more like upside-down 9s, according to court officials. Jenkins reportedly told Judge Peter Bataillon that he carved the 666 because he is not receiving treatment for his purported mental illness. He asked the judge to order the Nebraska State Patrol to investigate. But the judge declined, reports local news site Omaha.com. It is not clear yet whether Jenkins will use the latest self-mutilation to try to get himself again declared incompetent before he can face a death-penalty hearing. It has worked before. Jenkins mutilated himself last year, and Bataillon delayed his death-penalty hearing. It took a year before the judge declared him competent to stand trial. His disclosure of a Manson-style mark — the California killer has a swastika between his eyes — was just the latest antic in a case that has dragged on for 20 months. Jenkins is scheduled to go before a three-judge panel in early July which will decide if he should be executed for his 2013 killing spree of four people. The killer says he acts under the voice commands of a serpent god, but psychiatrists are split on whether is he a genuine schizophrenic.

Give this guy a bump-bump-dee-bump

Granted criminals are seldom known for their nuclear brain power but this might take the cake. The good news for this guy is it does not appear that this is the first time he’s permanently etched some garbage on his face.

After extensive research I should tell you, face tatoo’s NEVER look good. The second you ink up your face you lose all credibility and can kiss any chance of a prosperous career goodbye.

Now face paint on the other hand…

Get Your Lebron James T Shirt Inspired by “The Wire” (Albeit Several Years Late)

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It blows my mind that someone has taken a TV show, widely accepted as one of the best, with one of the all time best quotes, that came and went during LeBron’s career, and has been off the air for SEVEN YEARS has finally just connected said quote to the NBA’s best player with the same nickname.

In all honesty this shirt is about 5 years too late. It would have made a lot more sense during his Heatles run when everyone with a Twitter was telling The King he sucked. Now that he’s undergone a successful PR campaign and returned back home to Cleveland the shirt doesn’t posses that same charm it could have when he was in Miami.

Hipster Brewery Turning Poop Water into Beer… Wait What!?

NY Daily News Maybe someday the slogan will change from “This Bud’s for You” to “This Bud’s from Poo.” After all, an Oregon government environmental panel has approved a plan for local brewers to use recycled sewage water — a source of H2O that the group says will be increasingly necessary due to climate change. Utility company Clean Water Services will give the repurposed water to Oregon Brew Crew, a Portland-based home brewing club that will use the funky stuff to highlight the need for new sources of water.It takes an average of five barrels of water to make one barrel of beer, said Lee Hedgmon, the president of Oregon Brew Crew. “Brewing is a very water-intesive process,” she added. “I think breweries would benefit from ways to conserve.”

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I can only imagine the death sentence being in charge of Oregon Brew Crew’s marketing. After years reissuing the same Hoppy Hour joke this person a nasty curve ball when this memo landed on their desk.

This is almost on the same naivety level as your parents romantic encounters. Personally, I firmly believe I was immaculately conceived so as to avoid any thoughts of the truth. While I’m sure at some level, the water flowing out of my pipes may trace back to something leaking out of someone’s butt, I like to wear blinders and believe it comes from some fancy spring. Obviously Alleghany Punch is no Dasani but so long as there is enough ice you can make any city water work.

Guys in skinny jeans and mustaches were considered creepy before the hipsters made it trendy. I have a real sense of fear at this idea that they are taking this environmental approach mainstream and before you know it, poop water is everywhere. We as a people have to keep a close eye on this because if we are not careful we will end up with poop water inspiring the next edition of Lays “name the new flavor and get paid” contest.

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Rob Rossi Trolls Penguins GM Jim Rutherford So He Has a Story to Write

TribLive Crisis is supposed to reveal true character, right? General manager Jim Rutherford lost his cool after the Penguins’ 2-1 loss to the New York Rangers on Monday night to fall within two defeats of a first-round elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs. After exiting a media elevator and while walking with other reporters to the Penguins’ dressing room, Rutherford addressed this columnist, a frequent critic since his hiring last June, in an obscenity-laced diatribe. “Thanks for your support,” Rutherford said repeatedly. “You’re a (expletive) jerk,” Rutherford said repeatedly. Rutherford followed the jerk comment with a suggestion to “go sell ice cream now,” then a challenge to look him in the eye, which I did while explaining my role as Trib Total Media’s lead sports columnist. My role is to provide opinion. “Well, your opinion is (expletive),” Rutherford said. As (expletive) as my opinion might be, it remains that Rutherford has botched an attempted retooling of the Penguins. If this unfortunate incident is any indication, he lacks the poise necessary to move that project foward.

First, someone fetch me my red pen this guy writes like a teenager.

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What the hell are you doing jacking up the font size to the first letter? Get real dude, you write on a local website not some illuminated manuscript. And whats up with “foward”? Are you so busy out there on the streets being an insufferable prick that you can’t run your work through spell check? Get off your poor person software, spell check is literally everywhere.

It is no secret that the Penguins have under achieved building around two of the best players on the planet. To go after the General Manager and give him hell for putting together a playoff team is not only moronic but lazy. No one in Pittsburgh cares to hear about the time you used you laminated press pass to pick on the guy that keeps you in business. Is this what happens to middle aged hack writers? You lose interest in the product on the ice and dive into some Kardashian-esque produced drama? Did you see Bryan Price went off on the media and need your own outburst?

Everything about Rob Rossi makes me want to vomit. His twitter avatar belongs on R/punchableface. He’s the kind of entitled dick bag that is usually holding the camera prodding a police officer and talking about his “rights” trying to make the next viral video.

Be better Rob. On every imaginable level, be better.

Somebody Get Reds Manager Bryan Price a Snickers

Because you turn into George Carlin when you’re hungry.

Good grief, that man is pissed! He makes a good point that the gutless media shouldn’t be running off telling the club secrets but come on man how naive do you have to be to drop actual nuggets on these clowns?

He’s spent his whole life in baseball and should probably know by now not to trust the snakes in the grass. He could be such a huge loser that he got into baseball so the media had to talk to him and he could feel like he has hundreds of friends and no one could say no to being his friend…

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