Rock's New Movie Tops $100 Million Worldwide, Rock Bottom At College Baseball Game, Rock News

- Yesterday's NCAA tournament game between the Tulane Green Wave and the North Carolina-Wilmington Seahawks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was delayed by rain by more than three hours. To pass the time, a couple of Seahawks players demonstrated their WWE skills, which included a Rock Bottom and a People's Elbow, which you can check out in the video above.

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- Speaking of The Rock, we noted yesterday that his new movie, San Andreas, opened to $53.2 million last weekend. It is the biggest opening for The Rock for a film in which he played the leading role, and topped estimates by $13 million. The film also took in another $60 million overseas, bringing its worldwide cume to $113.2 million in its opening weekend alone. The movie was made on a $110 million budget.

- Business Insider has an article here listing 6 reasons why The Rock has become such a big box office draw. At number five was the fact that he hasn't forgotten his WWE fans.

- Mashable has a story here with 12 facts about The Rock that some fans may not know. Some of the facts listed include Rock appearing on Star Trek early in his career, that he played his father on That 70s Show and that he was in a gang as a teenager.

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Tweener and damien demento contributed to this article.

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