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Conor McGregor Gets Mad, Throws Things At Shit-Talking Diaz Brothers
Normally in fighting sports, pre-bout histrionics and chest-puffing look fake, and also not particularly noteworthy. That is not the case when the Diaz brothers are involved....
Nick Diaz Argues With Drug Tester, Invites Her To Smoke Weed With Him
Exemplar of human possibility Nick Diaz hasn’t been back from his 18-month suspension long, but he’s already reprised his role as UFC shit-stirrer supreme. ESPN had him on right after his suspension was lifted, and he immediately disparaged any and all of his welterweight and middleweight competitor...
Kayla Harrison Is The Best And I'm In Awe Of Her
Four years ago, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. Yesterday, Harrison became the first woman from any country to win multiple golds at half heavyweight, and her final match only looked difficult because she made the rest of them look so easy....
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The Complicated Story Of American Olympians And The Hijab<em></em>
This is the story of two Olympians wearing hijabs. One is U.S. fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who is one of the faces of these Olympics, and a vocal stereotype piercer for black Muslim women. The other is Sarah Attar, an under-the-radar Californian who will cover her head, arms, and legs when she competes...
Report: Baylor Lineman Arrested For Alleged Stalking Was Previously Accused Of Sexual Assault
Baylor offensive lineman Rami Hammad was arrested on Monday after he allegedly stalked his ex-girlfriend on the university’s campus. According to Outside the Lines, Hammad was accused of sexually assaulting a different woman last fall, and was later accused of violating a no-contact order that was m...
Baylor Offensive Lineman Arrested For Allegedly Stalking Ex-Girlfriend
Baylor offensive lineman Rami Hammad was arrested yesterday on a third-degree felony stalking charge, three weeks after a Baylor professor called 911 because he allegedly wouldn’t leave his ex-girlfriend alone, according to the Waco Tribune....
Nick Diaz On 2013 Loss To Georges St-Pierre: "Somebody Frickin' Drugged Me!"
American icon Nick Diaz is back, as an 18-month suspension the Nevada State Athletic Commission laid on him for possibly having smoked weed before a fight with Anderson Silva ended today. Is he still Nick Diaz, the guy who once mugged Mayhem Miller on broadcast TV as an appalled Gus Johnson shouted?...
MMA Fighter Says He Was Kidnapped By Rio "Cops" & Forced To Pay Ransom
New Zealand MMA fighter Jason Lee says men in police uniforms kidnapped him in Rio de Janeiro, forcing the jiu-jitsu specialist to withdraw money from two ATMs and hand it over, or be be arrested....
Evangelista Santos To Give Away Donations He Received After Suffering Skull Fracture
After MMA fighter Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos suffered a gruesome skull fracture in a Bellator fight against Michael Page, his ex-wife set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for his medical bills. Santos ended up not needing that money, and now he’s giving it to a good cause....
Fox Sports Writer Says Network Pulled Column To Avoid Offending The UFC (UPDATE)
After it was revealed that USADA flagged Brock Lesnar for a doping violation in a sample taken 11 days before his UFC 200 fight against Mark Hunt, Fox Sports writer Elias Cepeda penned a column criticizing the USADA and the UFC because the positive test wasn’t revealed until six days after the fight...
NSAC: Jon Jones Tested Positive For Two Banned Substances
UFC light heavyweight Jon Jones was pulled from his UFC 200 fight against Daniel Cormier after he tested positive for a banned substance. Today, the Nevada State Athletic Commission revealed that Jones tested positive for two banned substances....
MMA Fighter Evangelista Santos Suffers Gruesome Skull Fracture
Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos lost his match against Michael Page at Bellator 158 on Saturday after Page landed a flying knee flush with Santos’s forehead. It was clear that Santos was badly hurt in the immediate aftermath of the fight, and now an Instagram post by his ex-wife, Cris “Cyborg” Justino, ...
UFC Sold For $4 Billion
In the single largest transaction in sports history, UFC has officially been sold—the papers were signed on Saturday—for an incredible $4 billion....
UFC 200 Is Still The Best Card Of The Year
All the old knocks still apply. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a corrupt, exploitative brand in a corrupt, exploitative sport. It functions in large part to enrich the egos and bank accounts of people lacking for neither, and it does so belligerently. At the moment it’s a business that may or...
Here's The Moment Daniel Cormier Learned The Jon Jones Fight Was Off
Wednesday night, we all learned that the UFC 200 main event, a light heavyweight title fight between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, was off because Jones had failed a drug test. Less than an hour before the news broke widely, Cormier had to be told....
Anderson Silva Will Fight Daniel Cormier At UFC 200
Last night, Jon Jones got pulled out of this weekend’s UFC 200 for failing a drug test. Daniel Cormier was devastated, bemoaning his lost chance to get revenge on Jones for beating him in 2015. Dana White said that he was looking for last minute replacements instead of scrapping the fight, and it tu...
Jon Jones Pulled From UFC 200 For Doping Violation
Jon Jones will miss this weekend’s UFC 200, where he was supposed to fight a rematch against Daniel Cormier in the main event, for a doping violation. The headliner of one of the UFC’s biggest cards of all time is now gone after he apparently failed a test three weeks ago....
Why Are So Many MMA Fighters Truthers, Conspiracists, And Just Plain Weird?
In late May, Tito Ortiz made a public appearance at a Donald Trump rally, holding up a bumper sticker that read, “Hillary Clinton killed my friends.” It wasn’t the first time he’d publicly backed the demagogue developer; earlier this year he went on a radio show and explained his support of Trump by...
This Was Ali
Muhammad Ali’s recent death has opened the floodgates for eulogies, tributes, evaluations, historical perspective analyses, and writing of nearly every kind imaginable. This isn’t surprising; Ali was, by almost any reckoning, the most celebrated sports figure ever, and the one with by far the widest...