When we left our heroes in Part One, Dolph Ziggler had overcome a loss earlier in the evening (as well as months of an inexplicably middling push) to capture, at long last, the World Heavyweight Championship against an Alberto Del Rio depleted by a post-match Patriot Act Lock, courtesy of one Jack Swagger.
Ziggler’s triumph (which, of course, may be a figment of my imagination) will set the stage for the most important moments of this year’s WrestleMania. The six participants in the top three matches on the card include two men who wrestled last year in an “End(?) of an Era” match, and two other men who are wrestling each other a second time after last year’s “Once(?) in a Lifetime” match. One of those three matches pits a man who gave a tearful, pseudo-retirement speech last year after losing to the very same opponent he now faces at WrestleMania in a, uh, retirement(?) match—an opponent who, after his victory, announced via Tout(?!?) that he was finished(?) with WWE and had “nothing left to prove.”
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One could make a fair argument that, in retrospect, the last two WrestleManias were merely prologue to this year’s event.
The news last week that local athlete Justin Verlander had signed the 
Justice Antonin Scalia authored a Supreme Court opinion published today that curtailed certain kinds of police searches using 
Today, my interest in college basketball pre-March is minimal at best. I follow the University of Richmond, and I’m vaguely aware of how other state schools are doing. VCU is essentially ubiquitous at this point, and knowledge of their performance will seep through whatever informational filters any Richmond resident has, even if one tries to avoid it. Trust me.
This week marked the first new episode of The Office in a month. As such, the brutal comedy warfare known as “SitCombat” resumes. Archer has been going strong during the interim. It would be difficult for The Office to top Archer right now in any event, but making matters worse might be the fact that tonight’s episode is “The Farm.”
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SitCombat: 4/4/13
This week is the first of a two-part season finale for Archer. Once Archer’s finished, that removes the competition for The Office. No competition, no SitCombat.
I may still write a series finale piece on The Office, but that’s TBD. For now, SitCombat has two more rounds until it goes to that great, big blog in the sky.
Ok, that makes no sense, but the point is that The Office has only two more chances at SitCombat redemption, something that has eluded it for several weeks now.
Here, then is the belated edition of the weekly clash, postponed by my 4,000+ words on a wrestling pay-per-view. Yep.
This was SitCombat for April 4, 2013:
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