Orlando Sentinel put up a video feature on WWE’s partnership with Full Sail University and its first taping on campus. It also includes some comments by Triple H.

Watch the video here.

Connecticut Republicans decided Friday night to give former wrestling executive Linda McMahon a second shot, endorsing her again as the party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate. (…)

While the final tallies were being made, McMahon made the rounds of the Connecticut Convention Center, chatting with delegates with her famous family in tow, including her Vince McMahon of WWE fame, her son Shane, daughter Stephanie and her husband Paul Levesque, a wrestler known as Triple H. Some delegates posed for photos with them. (…)

Source: RealClearPolitics

Some pictures were posted here.

As we’ve previously mentioned…

Don’t forget to tune in to “Criss Angel Uncensored” today at 3:30 pm EST for an interview with Triple H.

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PWInsider posted some notes on yesterday’s NXT taping at Full Sail University. Triple H’s promo most likely won’t be part of any of the episodes that were taped.

Triple H cut a promo thanking everyone for coming to the show. He said the taping would be seen in 60 countries and equated NXT as the future of WWE to Full Sail being the future leaders of the entertainment world.

For those who are keeping count…

Paul Levesque aka Triple H is now listed as “Executive Vice President, Talent and Live Events” on WWE Corporate.

His former title was Executive Vice President, Talent.

Shock Entertainment Australia, which is is Australia’s largest independent music & DVD distributor, reports that a new Shawn Michaels DVD will also be added to WWE’s new Superstar Collection. It’ll be released on October 3, 2012.

The synopsis for the dvd is as follows:

He is one of the most revered Superstars in the history of sports entertainment. Spanning a quarter century, Shawn Michaels’s career was punctuated by countless accolades including multiple reigns with every major championship, and timeless matches that revolutionized the industry. The Main Event, The Icon, The Showstopper, Mr. WrestleMania and most recently…Mr. Hall of Fame has truly influenced a generation of fans. Now in this special collection, relive these show-stealing classics from his final run in WWE, including his one last stand with Triple H in DX and his emotional final match at WrestleMania XXVI.

The Miami Herald posted an article about Shawn’s latest collaboration with EyeBlack. There are also some comments from Shawn how he got into hunting and what working on his ranch is like. The whole thing can be read here.

Below are some excerpts about his retirement and this year’s Wrestlemania:

Could you have physically still competed in WWE, if you wanted to?

Michaels answered: “Oh yea. Easy. Without a doubt.

“I walked away from an extremely well paying job, which is probably not the smartest thing to do. [Michaels chuckled], but I did it solely to come home and to help my wife raise our children, to be a part of their lives.

“WWE would have allowed me to work any kind of way that I wanted. I could have very easily have said, ‘Hey, I’d like to slow down over the next couple of years, do a few things here and there,’ and I think everybody would have been fine with that, but for me, I think that would have probably been harder on me. Personally, I think the job would be harder for me to do, personally, on a semi, here and there, in and out type basis.

“It’s easier, and I think I’m better at it when I’m doing it or I’m not. So for me I felt it was better to walk away completely.

“You have to be careful because if you leave it as an open option, you’re going to be getting calls on a regular basis. Every time somebody gets injured or every time somebody comes up with an idea, the phone is going to be ringing, and you’re going to have to deal with ‘should I or shouldn’t I?’ I didn’t want to run into that. I didn’t want to put myself through that, and I didn’t want to put the company through that.

“I’m certainly not going to wrestle, but if you need me for something, if you’re in a bind, you can give me a buzz, and I’ll be more than happy to be there and help out any way I can.”

Michaels got the call to be part of the End of an Era match at WrestleMania 28 in Miami as Triple H battled The Undertaker (The Streak) in Hell in a Cell. Michaels was the special guest referee.

“For me, it was about three of us who have been there — for the most part — the longest of anybody and probably the last of the Mohicans, so to speak,” Michaels said. “It was three guys who had been sharing that locker-room for a long time, doing this in some form or another, whether it was me and Hunter, me and Taker, Taker and Hunter.

“The three of us have run the gamut of being in and out of the ring with each other and going through ups and downs, personally and professionally, and this is the last time the three of us will be in the ring together. That’s what the End of an Era was to me.”

So what was it like for Mr. WrestleMania to be involved in that WrestleMania 28 classic as special guest ref?

“It was incredibly cool, especially from the standpoint of being the special guest ref,” Michael said. “You’re somewhat in the spotlight, but let’s face it. The match and everything else is on their shoulders. You just need not screw it up, and you need to make sure you add to it. So to be able to be part of something so big but not have that huge pressure filled cloud hanging over you, I feel I got the best of both worlds. As long as you do your part really, really well and add to what these two are doing, this can be really special and really big.

“You also get the opportunity to get that nice little feeling, that nice pat on the back from being part of something special without having to put a great deal of the hard work and even more importantly that huge burden and pressure of living up to what people want it to be.”

When you’re doing something like that, are there aspects of it that make you wish you were wrestling again?

“No, no,” Michaels said. “I have yet to go through that. Every time I see everybody I get asked, ‘Are you getting the itch?’ I haven’t.

“I say that, and people think I don’t care. ‘He really doesn’t love it.’ That’s not the case at all. I love pizza and cookies, but after I eat it for a long time, I’m full, and full is full, but that doesn’t mean I don’t still love pizza and cookies. I do.

“It’s the best a guy can ask for. I can come in, still get to see my friends, still get to be a part of something very special and get to add to it, but do it in any area I’m comfortable with and do it in an area that doesn’t take so much time, effort and energy from me and more importantly away from the areas of my life where I feel like my effort and energy should now be.

“It’s not that I don’t care or don’t love it or don’t have the passion, which I get accused of a lot. I’d like to think it can be viewed as I’m the guy who made the decision to come home and be a part of my children’s lives. I’m doing that, and I want to do that well, and that should be OK.”

Joe DeFranco posted a very interesting article about Triple H’s training on his website. It goes into detail about his injuries as well as Hunter’s current training habits.

You can check it out here.

According to PWTorch.com, Triple H is scheduled to appear at the first new NXT taping on Thursday, May 17 at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. A poster has been released that labels the show as “Superstar Showdown”.

PWInsider.com also reports that the tapings are being moved to make it easier to integrate WWE developmental talent into the mix for NXT.

PWI also states that Hunter is behind the moves and will be very involved with the tapings. He was said to be a big fan of the facility when he and other company executives, including Kevin Dunn and Stephanie McMahon scouted last year.

The event is free to all Full Sail students and staff with a valid Full Sail ID. Ticket request can be sent to events@fullsail.com.

I’ve just added a few more of Shawn’s tweets about Hunter to our Twitter section.

Please let us know if we missed any interesting ones. Thank you!