fights Page 36 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
This, from Sean McIndoe on what he sees as the end of the enforcer in the NHL, is very good. I think he doesn't nail the simplest explanation until the very end, which is that goons are on the way out because teams have finally realized and quantified how much value they forfeit by taking a roster s...
Connor McDavid's Injury Means Another Fight About Fighting
Connor McDavid, the world's top hockey prospect, injured his hand in a fight last night. The OHL's leading scorer, who "doesn't fight very often," appeared to hurt himself (at about the 30-second mark of the video) when one of his punches struck the glass....
Hockey Fan Fight Starts And Ends With A Flight Down The Stairs
This starts off just like any other fight between fans at a sporting event, with two guys puffing up their chests and talking some shit while the rest of the crowd waits for something to happen. It escalates quickly when a bystander decides to get things moving with a beer to the head, and then it r...
Bernard Hopkins Reaches The Limits Of Science
"Bernard Hopkins stood right here the other day and told me: black, he's too predictable," said one of the trainers at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, where Hopkins had held his media workout last week. "He's too, too predictable."...
NASCAR Teams Beat Shit Out Of Each Other In Choreographed Mayhem
Brad Keselowski is once again at the center of a NASCAR brawl as his squad traded punches with Jeff Gordon's in another display of stock car racing hilarity at Texas Motor Speedway....
Maryland, Penn State Fight Before Game, And A Handshake Refusal
Maryland captains refused to shake the hands of their Penn State counterparts before today's game in State College that featured a bit of a fight between the two Big Ten squads....
I Watched A Journeyman Fighter Get His Ass Beat In A Cage In St. Louis
From Thrown, Kerry Howley's new, great book on mixed martial arts, available now....
How Muhammad Ali's Rope-A-Dope Myth Suckered America
Myth now dominates our misunderstanding of Muhammad Ali, who was once the most accessible celebrity in the world. The truth of the man is nearly irretrievable. With Ali having receded into an exile of his own choosing, the jokes and half-truths and outright lies he once told to entertain us have h...
Two Grown Men Get In A Fistfight Over Fantasy Football
So, what exactly is going on here?...
Old Clippers Fan Mauls Young Clippers Fan In Brawl During Game
Button-up man took on T-shirt man at Wednesday night's Suns-Clippers game to determine whose style of shirt was superior. Or, maybe they were fighting for a dumber reason. Who knows....
The Fight: Patterson Vs. Liston
Originally published in the February 1963 issue of Nugget, "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston" also appears in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, edited by George Kimball and John Schulian and published in hardcover, paperback, and as an e-book by The Library of America. You can also find it...
Drake Protégé Gets Duffed In The Club On A Tuesday (On A Tuesday)
ILoveMakonnen is an R&B singer who has a Twitter handle for a name. You know him from a track he recently released with Drake, the one about hanging out in the club on a Tuesday. In an exceptionally hilarious turn of events, ILoveMakonnen got attacked while performing in a New York City club. And gu...
<em>Thrown</em> Is The Only MMA Book Anyone Ever Needs To Write
Nearly no one writes really well about fighting, which I've always thought was less because of the sport itself than because of the institutions around it. Promoters, matchmakers, agents, sponsors, and reporters are, after all, at all times engaged in a conspiracy to deny the essential humanity of t...
Massive Soccer Brawl With Punches, Flying Kicks, Sees 12 Guys Sent Off
Deportivo Roca and Cipolletti, rivals in Argentina's 3rd division, really, really don't like each other. In the middle of a match between the two earlier this week, one bad tackle sparked a full on melee, with multiple players catching fists to the face and studs to the body....
Havoc At Serbia-Albania As Match Interrupted By Flag-Carrying Drone
Officials suspended today's Serbia-Albania Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade after a drone carrying a large banner with the Albanian flag entered the stadium late in the first half and sparked a brawl between the two squads....
Player Brutally Punched Out Of Rugby Grand Final Surprisingly OK With It
St. Helens halfback Lance Hohaia, forced to leave Saturday's Super League Grand Final after being concussed by a pair of obscene punches from Wigan's Ben Flower just two minutes into the match, was pretty mellow about the whole event afterward and dismissed it as the sort of thing that happens som...
NASCAR Goes Full WWE As Matt Kenseth Attacks Brad Keselowski Post-Race
In a scene that could have been taken from the Attitude Era, Matt Kenseth ambushed Brad Keselowski tonight after tonight's NASCAR Bank of America 500 in Charlotte....
Rugby Somehow Gets More Brutal-er
It took Wigan's Ben Flower two minutes into today's Super League Grand Final against St Helens to be sent off. The reason? This punch to Lance Hohaia. He earned that red card. Here's the video:...
Hockey Fight Ends In Player's Head Being Bashed Into The Ice
Your ugly ice hockey fight of the night comes from the AHL, where Trevor Gillies of the Adirondack Flames grabbed Rochester forward William Carrier's head and bashed it into the ice....
Goalkeeper Tries To Rearrange Ref's Face With Haymaker
Romeo Mitrović, of the Bosnian second division side Bratstvo Gračanica, does not like refs. He doesn't like their cards, he doesn't like their attitude, and he especially doesn't like their faces. Which is apparently why he tried to split one ref's wig after being shown a yellow....