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Joe Harding tried his best Ali, or at least Broner, during a British Challenge MMA match against Frenchman Johan Segas tonight. It did not go well for Mr. Harding, who spent several minutes on the canvas....
Norm MacDonald Calls Terrible, Dollar-Store Indoor Football Broadcast<em></em>
If you thought football season was over and are positively jonesing for a fix of the good shit, oh boy, have we got a treat for you. Strap in for the thrills and spills of the Indoor Football League....
Conor McGregor Is Exactly The Rich Showy Asshole You Think He Is<em></em>
UFC megastar Conor McGregor is on the cover of GQ Style’s latest issue, and the magazine had Zach Baron profile him for the cover story. The story kicks off with McGregor rolling his eyes at the $27,000 tab he racked up at a luxury clothing store before showing off a airplane hangar’s worth of comic...
Georges St-Pierre Is (Maybe) Back<em></em>
One of the greatest fighters in UFC history might be coming back soon. Georges St-Pierre hung up his gloves and vacated the welterweight title (a title he had owned since the Mesozoic era) in late 2013, and speculation about when he would fight again kicked off shortly after. He almost came back to ...
Fuming-Mad Yoel Romero Calls Into Michael Bisping's Radio Show To Talk Trash, Chaos Ensues
UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping and top-ranked contender Yoel Romero have been circling around each other and talking trash for a while now ahead of their inevitable title fight sometime later this year. Bisping has mocked Romero for maybe maybe not crapping his pants during a fight and fa...
Sage Northcutt Takes Dark Turn, Beats Ass Of Houston Rockets Mascot
We’ve finally found something that can turn Sage Northcutt, once an innocent apple-ripping MMA-fighting puppy dog, into a ruthless assassin: Mascots....
Michael Bradley, Gregg Popovich, Others Speak Out On Trump Muslim Ban
President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—has brought a weekend of chaos, uncertainty, pain and protest. Sports have not been exempt from that. The NBA is trying to figure out how to help players who may be aff...
Daniel Cormier Will Fight Anthony Johnson At UFC 210
Daniel Cormier, UFC light heavyweight champion, will take on Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, the weight class’s top contender, at UFC 210 in Buffalo. The title fight will happen on April 8, four months after the two were supposed to fight at UFC 206....
Paul Daley Takes Out Brennan Ward With Flying Knee To The Head
Brennan Ward and Paul Daley were the undercard at last night’s Bellator 170, but they had the most exciting—and most terrifying—finish....
Ortiz Vs. Sonnen Will Give You What You Want
Saturday night, at the end of the first full day of the Trump administration, a former UFC champion will compete against a perennial UFC title challenger, but it’ll go down in Bellator, which is probably more appropriate for where we’re all psychically at right now. All fights have a theme, and this...
Emmanuel Mudiay Helped Gregg Popovich With His Ejection
Wow, Emmanuel Mudiay’s most accurate shot of the season....
Colorado State Player And New Mexico Coach Get Into Postgame Screaming Match
New Mexico defeated Colorado State 84-71 behind Elijah Brown’s 25-point performance, bringing the Lobos to 3-3 in Mountain West place, good for fourth place behind the third-place Rams. The game was described as “chippy ” by a CSU student journalist; after an alleged incident in the postgame handsha...
UConn Huskies Complete Another 90-Game Winning Streak
The UConn women’s basketball program is so perennially dominant that its only real competition at this point is past iterations of Geno Auriemma’s team. The current Huskies proved they’re still the best in basketball Tuesday night with their 90th-consecutive win—an NCAA record matched only by the UC...
Mark Hunt Sues Brock Lesnar, The UFC, And Dana White
UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt accused the UFC, Dana White, and Brock Lesnar of racketeering, fraud, breach of contract, and other charges in a lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court yesterday. The lawsuit seeks millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages....
What's A Bad Way To Describe Amanda Nunes?
UFC announcer Bruce Buffer has an entry at the 26-minute mark of a podcast called The Pony Hour:...
The FBI Spent More Than A Year Investigating The 1965 Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston Fight
The FBI spent more than a year unsuccessfully searching for evidence of fixing in the 1965 championship fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston, according to newly released documents....
Amanda Nunes Annihilates Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey’s comeback came to a grinding halt as reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes demolished the former champ in less than 50 seconds....
Mike Pyle Had A Bad Night
Alex Garcia took care of Mike Pyle tonight in their UFC welterweight bout. The night did not end well for Mike Pyle, or his brain cells. ...
UConn's Women's Basketball Still Hasn't Lost A Game Since 2014
We need a word that multiplies the impact of the word “juggernaut” to describe the UConn women’s basketball team. Last night, the Huskies won their 87th consecutive game with a 87-81 win over fourth-ranked Maryland. That puts the team only four wins away from breaking their previous win streak recor...
IT IS ALL OVER: UFC Announcer Mike Goldberg Mercifully Sent To Nice Farm Upstate
Every so often, a play-by-play announcer will make a call that can’t be improved on—the kind that resonates years later, evoking all the drama and immediacy of a perfect and memorable moment. AGÜERRRROOO! ... Auburn’s gonna win the football game! Auburn’s gonna win the football game! ... In a year t...