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Puerto Rican League Game Delayed When Players' Families Start Fighting
We are actually big fans of Baloncesto Superior Nacional, the Puerto Rican professional basketball league that's become somewhat of a summer league stop-over for sub-NBA pro ballers. (Games are aired live on local TV here in St. Petersburg.) Last night's Humacao-Carolina vs. Ponce game, though, got...

Yasiel Puig Takes Fastball To Face, Stays In Game, Sparks Huge Brawl
Dodgers superman Yasiel Puig continues to impress, and his latest feat is taking a fastball to the face and managing to get up and take his base—something that eventually led to a big fight....

He Stopped For A Burrito And, Voila, Saw A Chula Vista Taco-Shop Brawl
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Chula Vista Cat Fight." Tonight's commentator: Rashinal, eyewitness to taco-shop mayhem. (Coming next week: either a ladies' woods spat or an Eastern European prom-gone...

Old-Man Fight Features Broken Golf Club Used As A Sword
If you've spent a significant amount of time playing golf, you know how awful going through a round with a shitty playing partner can be. But no drunk, angry, or overly talkative golfing buddy will ever be as bad as one 59-year-old man from Detroit, Mich., who allegedly broke a club over his playing...

Rugby Fight Gets Right To Lots Of Punching
The State of Origin, which annually pits New South Wales (Blues) against Queensland (Maroons), is hailed as "Australian sport's greatest rivalry." And when tempers flare, niceties like staring each other down and talking shit while being held back don't apply....

Surgical Mask-Wearing Gang Roughs Up Mourners At Chinese Hospital
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs:"Fight outside hospital in Guangdong, China." Tonight's commentator: TNF's Beijing Correspondent Anthony Tao. (Coming next week: Either a prom brawl or a jewelry store me...

One Man Hospitalized, Two More Charged After Fight At Baseball Game
One man, 25-year-old Matt Fortese, is battling for his life, and Baltimore Police have charged two more men after a fight Wednesday at the Orioles-Nationals game....

Bad Ass
My favorite bean ball story involves Dock Ellis when he was pitching for the Pirates in the 1970s. The following excerpt is from In the Country of Baseball, written by Ellis with Donald Hall....

Ambush Highlights Everything Wrong With Video-Fightin' Bros
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Pillsbury Beatdown," from njon437, who apparently joined to post this lone video. Tonight's commentator: Me. (Coming next week: the previously mentioned "Streetfight in...
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Maurice Jones-Drew Allegedly Punched Out A Bar Staffer [UPDATED]
Jacksonville Jaguars running back and back-to-UCLA student Maurice Jones-Drew has been charged with battery after he allegedly punched and knocked out a bar staffer over the weekend at a beach bar in St. Augustine, Fla., according to police....

Notre Dame QB Golson Allegedly Kicked Out For Academic Violation
Everett Golson, whose heroics under center last season led the Fighting Irish to the BCS Championship game, is no longer enrolled at Notre Dame due to academic violations, according to the Chicago Tribune....

Leroy's Revenge: Two Dogs, Father And Son, Fight To The Death
Originally published in the August 1975 issue of Texas Monthly. Reprinted here with permission. As the author explains in the postscript, names have been changed, and the final scene is a composite. ...

A French Rugby Brawl, With Promotion On The Line
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Massive Brawl in french second division !!!" Tonight's commentator: Jim Saksa, a rugby player who wants his alma mater University of Penn to win the upcoming collegiate...

Copa Del Rey Ends In Havoc: Ronaldo Sent Off, Fights, Debris Attacks
Atlético Madrid pulled off a shocker in winning Spain's Copa del Rey trophy today, upsetting favored Real Madrid in extra time and winning the national competition for the first time since 1996. They did this amidst a wild scene at Santiago Bernabéu that featured 15 bookings, a fight, and players b...

A New Orleans Street Fight, Graded By An Unimpressed Pro Wrestler
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "New Orleans Street Fight @FrankieWatts715." Tonight's commentator: Heartland Wrestling Association Wrestler Jock "the Appalachian Outlaw" Samson. (Coming next week: Own...

Russian Youth Hockey Fight Is Insane, Full Of Flying Russian Children
I've been trying to write the first sentence of this post for a while now and it's just a lot of opening my mouth as if to offer up some kind of context, followed by quickly shaking my head. ...

Arrest Made In Stabbing Of University Of Delaware Quarterback
Police in Newark, Del., have arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of University of Delaware quarterback Trevor Sasek early Sunday morning, according to the News-Journal of Wilmington, Del....

Here's Penn State Coach Bill O'Brien Doing An Impression Of His Mother
Bill O'Brien just concluded a stand-up routine coaches' caravan tour around Pennsylvania. Yesterday, he addressed whether he said "fuckers" or "fighters" on live TV after the Nittany Lions' season-ending win against Wisconsin. Turns out even his mother thought it might not have been "fighters."...

Yep, Charles Barkley Still Wants To Kill Skip Bayless
It's been eight years since Charles Barkley first said Skip Bayless was "one of the two people I'd like to kill." He's done little to hide his contempt for Bayless's jackassery ever since. Two nights ago on TNT, Barkley delightfully reminded us his hatred will never die....

The Death Of The UK's "Happy Slapping" Craze
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: the old-school "Happy Slapper Gets Smacked," chosen because "graffiti-dude fights art-fag (gnarly beatdown)" was just too bad-vibe. Tonight's commentator: artist Steve ...