Tag

A recent development in WWE's storytelling seems more like lyrics from a early 1990s hip hop song than anything we've seen in recent years: tag teams, back again. WWE fans have been clamoring for the revitalization of a tag team division for months, if not years, and their wish finally seems to be coming true. While Kofi Kingston and R-Truth did a good job alongside Primo and Epico and the Prime Time Players to rebuild a solid foundation, it has been since Kane and Daniel Bryan won the titles that the focus has become clear.

theScore's Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) had a chance to speak with Booker T, the former world heavyweight champion and current Smackdown general manager, about WWE's tag-team division, his time spent in prison, and much more.

An average of twice a day, a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center has a heart attack, dangerous allergic reaction or other emergency that requires supplies from a crash cart. The carts are the wheeled emergency stations that contain equipment including trays of life-saving drugs. And at Maryland, the trays are now also filled with radio-frequency identification tags that ensure all the medications are there and have not expired. "We rely on these [carts] day in and day out," said Dr. John W. Blenko, an anesthesiologist at Maryland's Shock Trauma Center and an associate professor in Maryland's School of Medicine.

Tag-team wrestling has become a lost art in the WWE. There was a period where tag-team wrestling dominated the landscape, and duos like the Hardy brothers, the Dudleys and Edge and Christian would steal any show they were on. Those days are long gone. Now, fans just ask for there to be some semblance of attention and focus given to the tag-team division. And in recent weeks, there has been some sense of promise on the horizon, as WWE has been reminding fans there are more than two tag teams on the roster.

Money in the Bank has become a critical pay-per-view on the WWE calendar. Last year's installment was headlined by the critically acclaimed contest between then-WWE Champion John Cena vs. CM Punk, who had vowed to win the title and leave WWE, as his contract expired that night. On top of that, the Money in the Bank ladder matches themselves have become a tool to create new stars and revitalize careers that needed a push. Just look at the past year since Daniel Bryan won the briefcase and started on his path of corruption toward becoming the character he is today.

I despise Teddy Long's performance as a general manager. Anyone who has listened to From the Rafters Radio has heard multiple rants on the subject. But I give the devil his due, and on tonight's Raw, Long played his role well. His on-screen appearances were kept to a minimum, and the decisions he made "off-screen" were a nice way to recognize and even troll the thoughts of the Internet fans, who have long mocked Long's fascination with tag team matches. It's true that Long's character had a hankering for multi-man contests, and that shined at full force tonight, as Raw featured three tag team matches.

If suburban lawmakers want to get serious about helping reduce violent crime in Baltimore - aside from making racially charged observations or fueling public fears - they ought to look at the proposal under review this week by lawmakers in Albany. In New York, legislators were scheduled to consider a bill to require new handguns be equipped with "microstamp" or "ballistic imprint" technology that allows police to match bullet casings found at crime scenes with the handgun that fired them.

TNA Wrestling celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend with the Slammiversary pay-per-view. Through the years, many stars have come and gone through the TNA system, but there have been a core group of TNA "originals" who have remained loyal to the product through the good times and the bad. One of them, a "founding father" of the company, was "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. Today, Daniels is one-half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions with Frankie Kazarian and the self-proclaimed "new face of Impact Wrestling.

Want to express yourself on a license plate? Go ahead. The state will gladly take your $50 per year. You can't say any old thing, though. The Motor Vehicle Administration has cataloged more than 4,000 words, phrases and letter-number combinations it won't put on a tag. The agency's Objectionable Plate List, as it's called, is a compendium of vulgarities, obscenities and other no-no's aimed at keeping tags out of the gutter. The Baltimore Sun requested the information last week, hoping to share what the MVA doesn't want you to see on the road.

Ever since he was a kid, Benjamin Arem wanted to be a lawyer. When he graduated from Muhlenberg College in 2006, Arem put his law school aspirations on hold to become an accountant. All the while, law remained his passion. So, in the fall of 2009, he enrolled in the University of Baltimore School of Law. Now about to graduate, Arem is nervous of his prospects. He scours job listings, sends reams of resumes and cover letters, but hasn't gotten any solid leads. "I've gone from having a well-paid, stable job and being debt-free, to now drowning in debt and being unemployed," Arem said.