You stop it by shame and civil lawsuits, but as to how illegal it is... it gets murky. You can go after them for not documenting hours worked and wages earned for hours worked, but to me the easiest way to get them shut down is to look at their books for undeclared revenues (e.g., you work for me and I give you…

So, from the outside looking in, it's odd they would fire a guy who had a winning record and got at least seven wins each year for seven years, but I guess the fanbase and people in charge really couldn't hack the bad losses where Nebraska would get blown out by three touchdowns or more. There is also the misty…

Louisville deserves whatever happens to them, they hired Petrino. You don't get to complain about the crime rate in the neighborhood when you run a no-questions-asked pawn shop.

A pro-Putin American celebrity wins a match in Russia, after going out of his way talking about Putin. Yeah, nothing fishy there.

Sociopath potential is, per some scholars, appears to inherited. The degree to which a person acts on it seems to be based on the stress factors they encounter in their development. In the cases of Ivan IV, Peter the Great, Peter III and Pavel (Paul), early childhood trauma had a lot to do with their sociopath…

No, it would not. At least for none of the Tsars. Ivan the Terrible was also not an out and out lunatic, he was a sociopath whose skills in cunning debilitated over time. His goal was to create a strong central state out of a feudal mess whose main reason for existence was being the bagman for the Mongols. Ivan's…

He's not terrifying. He's a power crazed midget leading his nation to disaster, while being supported by knee jerk fascist nationalist impulses of a servile population. Portraying him as an evil schemer denotes him having a plan or brains. He's a bumbling bureaucrat, made to appear scary because his opposition in…

Calling Putin "elected" is a joke. He was elected in a country where the press is owned by the government and only covers one candidate - him. There are despots in Africa who can claim to be more legitimate rulers than him.

In 2014, all of this is very silly because championships are won and lost in the space of a month. In 1997, it was considerably less silly, because championships were rewards for being the best earner for the company and being made The Headliner to increase profits in house shows and Pay-Per-View events. …

He offered to drop it in Canada, just not to Shawn. There were a couple of house shows booked prior to the PPV, where Bret suggested he drop the title in a surprise to Taker or Shamrock and then go into the PPV against Shawn as an ex-champion. He did not want to lose to Shawn in Canada, not "not lose in Canada."

Hang on, is it the bad launch and release of a product or speculators betting on the game being great right away, buying stock prior to release with an option to sell immediately after the release, flooding the market with those predefined sell order dates all the while not realizing the game was not meeting…

Peeta is a useless sack of whine and pity. The whole "I, uh, can lift bags of flour" thing... Sadness.

What the Hell were the Steelers thinking? Did this come from Tomlin or LeBeau, or John Mitchell?

I think it's more of a slam off the 'buckle, personally.

Isn't this the same guy who did this last year for Buffalo/KC game?

The only thing I remember about the TekWar is the TV Series, and how it was a mix of terrible cliches and curious notions. Every once in a while they would introduce an actually interesting idea, but then do nothing with it. Also, I remember Nika.

Completely disagree with your opinion.

Yes, yes you are. AC3 was/is horrible. It features the most bloated faux-tutorial of all AC series, the most unlikeable charisma-black-hole of a hero, and a story with a terrible resolution, all the while desperately trying to be Say Something Important About America.

Glad to read histories like this on deadspin, keep 'em coming. Have some very minor points to add:

To everyone in the comments hating on Batman... man, I don't know at what is wrong with you, but unless you're deliberately Skip Bayless contrarian-style trolling, your sadness is sad. Kindly take your pseudo-intellectual psycho-babble masquerading as Something Important over to Gawker proper, or Jezebel, and please…