TCD has serious questions for bear wrestling magnate

File this one under "should have seen this coming."

Sam Mazzola of Cleveland, OH apparently houses a "menagerie" - as the press is calling it - of wild and exotic animals in his backyard southwest of Lebron's former home court. His "pets" include wolves, tigers, lions and at least one bear. Recently, he had his license to exhibit his animals revoked after authorities rightfully freaked out over his plans to start a man vs. bear wrestling league. Seriously.

In a victory for wild animals kept under lock and key in Ohio, a bear not on the wrestling roster killed a caretaker at Mazzola's compound over the weekend. Obviously this sucks for 24-year old Brent Kandra and his family and it's clear why this bear was not allowed to step inside the ring with human combatants, but anyone sick enough to propose such an idea has it coming to them. It's just too bad that what was coming to Mazzola happened to Kandra.

The bear will retire with a lifetime wrestling record of 1-0 as it was euthanized over the weekend.

Wikileaks - if you're not following this story, you should be

This is one of the most fascinating news stories in a long time. I'm not talking about the 92,000 classified military documents that Wikileaks leaked, I'm talking about the Wikileaks itself. To me, no other organization (if Wikileaks can be called an organization) is as polarizing as Wikileaks. Fundamentally, it has a valuable mission; in practice it can be a dangerous breach of national security.

For those of you who haven't been following this, Wikileaks is an organization led by Julian Assange (an odd looking, vaguely Norwegian dude) that procures and publishes - from a variety of sources - classified and private documents. It's agenda is simple: to provide transparency.

It has broken a lot of stories from across the globe including corporate and government corruption and military operations. For me, it really came into consciousness when it published a 15 minute video of US soldiers shooting Iraqi civilians and Reutters reporters. It was disturbing footage.

Its latest leak was HUGE. As I mentioned above, it procured and published 92,000 classified US military documents that paint a bleak view of the Afghan war and point to inaccurate reports from our government and military.

Let me be clear: I, and TCD, am not taking a position on this story. Wikileaks fascinates me as much as it terrifies me and it really shows the power of our now totally connected world. We are going to see a lot more stuff like this pop up and a lot more secrets revealed before anything is able to be fully locked down.

No matter what you think about this, you have to imagine that the US government would love to get its hands on Assange. I wouldn't mind seeing video of that conversation leaked.