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Daniel Cormier Is The UFC Light Heavyweight Champ Again, Whatever That Means Now
On July 29, Jon Jones completed his long redemption arc by knocking out Daniel Cormier with a vicious head kick in the third round, winning the UFC light heavyweight belt back in the process. On Sept. 13, Cormier was reinstated as champ after a second test confirmed that Jones had tested positive fo...

Boxer Magomed Abdusalamov, Unable To Walk Or Talk After 2013 Fight, Receives $22 Million Settlement
Boxer Magomed Abdusalamov will receive $22 million from the state of New York, nearly four years after he suffered serious brain damage during a fight....

Brian Kelly Can't Resist An Opportunity To Be Passive-Aggressive
Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has turned a page in preparation for this football season. He’s learned from his mistakes that led his program to going 4-8. He—ah, hold up while he gets exceptionally bitchy as he argues the difference between one point and one possession after losing 20-19 to Geor...

There Was Skins-On-Skins Fighting In The Washington Stands Today
Football’s not back until the fans are brawling, and thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long. The Eagles defeated Washington today, but some hot-blooded Skins fans really wanted to come home feeling a win (apologies for any neck pain caused by trying to watch this video):...

Lawsuit: Notre Dame Covered Up An Alleged Rape Committed By A Football Player
An anonymous former Notre Dame student filed a lawsuit on August 17 on St. Joseph’s County Circuit Court alleging that a football player raped her in his dorm room in January 2016 and that instead of dealing with the alleged assault, as she requested, the school mishandled it and swept it under the...

Yet Another UFC Main Event Derailed By Last-Second Medical Issue
This weekend, Demetrious Johnson was supposed to fight Ray Borg and go for the all-time record for consecutive UFC title defenses. Johnson is one of the greats and as perfect of a fighter as you’ll see in the UFC today, and while Borg is “fine,” the flyweight belt is DJ’s and he was probably going ...

Ex-Notre Dame Football Player Says School Hid MRI Results From Him, Which Led To A Chronic Spinal Injury
Last Friday, former Notre Dame linebacker Douglas Randolph filed a lawsuit against Notre Dame, Brian Kelly, head Notre Dame football trainer Rob Hunt, and a handful of doctors, alleging that the Notre Dame football and training staff deliberately concealed a serious spinal injury from him, which he ...

Report: Browns Cut Calvin Pryor For Fighting With Teammate Before Practice
This morning before Browns practice, safety Calvin Pryor and wide receiver Ricardo Louis got into a fight, according to reports from Ian Rapoport and Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot. The Browns wouldn’t confirm that a fight had taken place, but Pryor didn’t show up at practice and hours later, the te...

Father And Son Alabama Fans Arrested After Brawling At FSU Game
During this weekend’s Alabama-Florida State game, a pair of rowdy Alabama fans got into a nasty-looking fight in the stands of the Falcons stadium. Officers responded to reports of a fight in the 120/121 section of the stadium at around 11 p.m. local time. According to an incident report obtained by...

UFC Vet Diego Brandão Flips Out, Incites Garbage Storm, Leaps Out Of Cage
Brazilian mixed martial artist Diego Brandão has been fighting with Russian MMA promotion Fight Nights Global this year, since the UFC released him from his contract after he allegedly pistol-whipped someone outside of an Albuquerque strip club in April 2016. He once headlined a UFC event against Co...

Illinois Football: Incompetence You Can Depend On
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Shohei Otani Is Pitching Again, And MLB Is Getting Ready For Him
After a thigh injury kept him from pitching for most of July and August, Japanese two-way playing phenom Shohei Otani made his first start in seven weeks today. Half of MLB’s front offices sent someone to Japan to watch him:...

Chinese Basketball Playoff Game Cut Short By Massive Brawl
A playoff game between the Guangxi Rhinos and Henan Shedianlaojiu in China’s pro basketball league ended after a massive brawl involving players, coaches, and fans broke out in the third quarter....

Four Days In The Squall Of A Superfight<em></em>
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before the big fight. It truly was too fucking hot. A police dog had to wear booties to protect his feet. This particular scalper was forced halfway inside, working the buffer area between the...

Mayweather-McGregor Showed What Boxing Has To Offer MMA
Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor’s ass; McGregor put on a respectable effort against an elite boxer, winning a moral victory. McGregor looked as sharp as he could have, and showcased improved skills; Mayweather was a faded husk of his former self. The fight was competitive in stretches; the figh...

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Works The Marks Again<em></em>
“In the end,” tweeted the Times’s sports Twitter account, in the aftermath of Floyd Mayweather, Jr.’s 10th-round TKO of UFC star Conor McGregor,“McGregor didn’t have enough stamina to beat the world’s best boxer.”...

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Finishes Conor McGregor With Tenth-Round TKO
The Big Dumb Super Fight of the century ended in a rather predictable manner after a somewhat surprising start. Conor McGregor took a few rounds off of Floyd Mayweather, Jr., who was content to play matador for the purpose of dramatic tension. McGregor landed the odd jab, but nothing really heavy la...

What Will The Fight At The End Of The Mayweather Vs. McGregor Circus Look Like?
Everything about the leadup to Conor McGregor’s matchup with Floyd Mayweather this Saturday has been absurd. We had McGregor in a suit adorned with “Fuck You” in a vertical pinstripe pattern; dollar bills raining down from the heavens; confrontations between McGregor’s and Mayweather’s enormous secu...