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Grierson & Leitch's 2014 In Review: The Best Forgotten Performances
Yes, most people have already written their Top 10 movie lists for 2014. We're saving ours for the last week of the year, but while we wait for this full, rich, and weird movie year to end, we're going to start looking back at certain highlights. Today, it's our favorite forgotten performanc...
Darko Milicic's First Kickboxing Match Came To A Gross End
NBA bust and actual crazy person Darko Milicic is a kickboxer now, and that sentence is less weird to type out than it probably should be. He just had his first official fight, and it did not go so well....
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continues their investigation of amateur kickboxing, this time with a horrifying story about a fight that pitted a developmentally disabled man against an opponent with "more than a decade of experience as a combat trainer and fighter." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] ...
Report: Kickboxer Died After Bout Due To Cheap Promoter, Inept Doctors
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went long this weekend on the death of Dennis Munson, a 24-year-old kickboxer who in March collapsed in the ring following his first amateur bout and died hours later. It's a harrowing read that catalogues a litany of errors that started well before the fight and ...
Two Arrested In Connection With Derek Boogaard's Death
Two men were arrested this morning in connection with the death of hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard, who died in 2011 from an overdose of alcohol and prescription painkillers....
KBO Star Murders Baseball Over Enormous Scoreboard In Center Field
Korean Baseball star Park Byung-Ho of the Nexen Heroes absolutely demolished a home run on Friday that cleared the giant scoreboard in centerfield. He now has 39 home runs, most in KBO. That's four more than the his teammate Kang Jung Ho, and 13 more than the next guy Lee Seung Yuop at 26. Heroes be...
HIV, Hepatitis C, And More: New York's Amateur MMA Scene Is A Disaster
Things get bloody not long after the fight goes from technical battle to all-out brawl, and the former Hofstra wrestler and the kickboxer from Brooklyn up the tempo, mixing thudding kicks to the thigh with straight shots to the face. The venue—an event space in Chinatown called the Capitale—echoes w...
Korean Baseball Players Are The Best At Bat Flipping
How's your bat-flip game, Yasiel Puig? Good, good, glad to see that you are still flippin' bats. But here's the thing: you don't have shit on these Korean ballplayers....
Kickboxer Knocked Out In First Round With 360 Back Kick
Raymond Daniels knocked out Francois Ambang at 1:47 in the first round of a fight on a Glory card tonight, about 1o seconds after Ambang was knocked down from a flurry of punches and could barely pick himself up and stand upright. ...
The Ballsiest Punt Return You'll See
This punt return is fantastic. Ryan Switzer baits the Cincinnati coverage team into thinking he's going to fair catch it—one Bearcat is right in his face—and then he just takes off 86 yards for the touchdown. It was his fifth punt return TD of the season, tying the NCAA record....
Death Of A Fighter
If you haven't read John Branch’s excellent profile of the late Derek Boogaard, do yourself a favor. “A Boy Learns to Brawl,” is top-notch:...
The Main Ingredient: Marcella
Last week, a post about the bluesman Furry Lewis, included this:...
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Earlier this year the New York Times reposted a 1976 article by Clark Booth about violence and football. It originally appeared in The Real Paper....
Korean Comic Strip Depicts KKK Chasing Dominican Baseball Player
On Sunday, Radhames Liz, a pitcher for the LG Twins in the KBO, hit Bae Young-seop in the head. Young-seop was taken away in an ambulance. Liz went on to retire the side on three strikeouts. Three Ks as it were. The next day an incredibly racist comic strip, by cartoonist Bounce Kim, was publishe...
The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Dig Mark Bowden's 2012 story for the Atlantic:...
Bad Ass
From the Bronx Banter archives, check out Pat Jordan's 1989 Playboy story on Rorion Gracie:...
Batter Celebrates Game-Tying Home Run Too Early, Flies Out
Don't celebrate your home runs before they come down....
Derek Boogaard's Family Is Suing The NHL For Wrongful Death
Almost two years ago to the day, Derek Boogaard died in his Minneapolis apartment. Late Friday afternoon, his family filed suit in Circuit Court of Cook County (Illinois) for his wrongful death. ...
The Meaning Of Convicted Rapist Mike Tyson's New Cartoon
Twenty years ago The Ring magazine asked the question, after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, "What If Mike Tyson Had Never Gone To Jail?" The cover story posed a counterfactual in which Tyson did not receive a guilty verdict on his 1991 indictment for rape, confinement and criminal deviant conduct....
Boston Is Really Bummed Out About The Super Bowl
This is almost too good to be true. It's taken only a handful of years for Title Town to completely revert back to the blubbering, blundering, sad-sack Boston we all know and love. It has been eight years since the Patriots won a Super Bowl. Eight! That is almost an entire decade of complete and tot...