Ninja Warrior Taints American Gladiators

I’ve noticed the obsession with Ninja Warrior has really tainted my enjoyment of American Gladiators. Warrior is much more intense than Gladiators and while I still watch and am entertained by Gladiators, Ninja Warrior is a much better competition.
Let’s compare for a moment. American Gladiators involves challenges like these:

Meanwhile, Ninja Warrior has these sorts [...]

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Ninja Warrior! The New Obsession

American Gladiators returned this week with some cool new challenges, a new Eliminator course and new gladiators (including the two champions from last season). It was great watching the return and it will provide many weeks of Monday night entertainment.
We’ve got a new Gladiator-esque fascination called Ninja Warrior. It’s on G4 a lot (we tend [...]

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Animated Gladiators

Will came across this at Man’s Adventure, a blog belonging to an artist. This is a great drawing of the new American Gladiators—from left to right that’s Militia, Wolf, Mayhem, Titan, Toa and Justice. It’s a cool sketch and since we love all things Gladiators it had to end up here.

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Gladiators Ready!

I’ve written in the past about how I’d gotten into the ESPN Classic reruns of American Gladiators. It’s fun seeing those shows again after so many years, with some of the episodes being nearly 20 years old (oh my, how the hair was back then!). Well, I just finished watching the first episode of NBC’s [...]

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Anniversary Saturday…

10 Years…: Yesterday, as you know if you read yesterday’s entry, Will and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. True, we’re obviously not really married because we’re not allowed; but as far as we’re concerned we are married. Obviously, someday we hope to be married under the law. Could it happen before we hit our [...]

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September Saturday

We are headed into my favorite time of year—fall. Officially we’re 23 days away, but of course unofficially it starts after this weekend since Monday is Labor Day. And it’s a nice day too, sunny currently 74 and only headed to be 80. We’re headed uptown for brunch soon and hopefully we’ll find a nice [...]

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