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Fun With Graphs: How UFC Fights End, Sorted By Weight Class
Reed Kuhn, of the excellent Fightnomics, has run the numbers, and they've been graphed. Are there more knockouts and stoppages the higher you go in weight? A resounding yes. Don't you love it when the conventional wisdom is backed up by a colorful chart? [CagePotato]...
Regular Dude Jon Jones Is Under Siege Because He Shares a Name With The MMA Fighter
You know how this goes. You're just a regular guy, living his life, when all of a sudden, Jon "Bones" Jones cancels UFC 151, ruining everything. So, you do the only logical thing you can do. Google "Jon Jones," find his twitter handle and tell him how you think he's the biggest pussy this side of Mi...
MMA Fighter Mysteriously Dies After Fight Is Called
Tyrone Mims (pictured right) was a 30-year-old amatuer mixed martial artist and father of five, participating in an event in South Carolina Saturday night when midway through the second round of his fight, officials called the match. According to Richard Seidlitz (In an apparently exclusive intervie...
Muhammad Ali Called Michael Phelps The Greatest
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Phelps says he started relaxing after losing his first race....
MMA Fighter With Full Complement Of Arms Knocked Out By One-Armed Man
Nick Newell (no-relation) is now 8-0 in his MMA career despite only having one arm. He compensates by relying on his knees and legs and, as you can see above, it works out pretty well for him. The best part is the announcer, who sounds like he may be Ray Hudson's less successful brother, referring...
FIFA Can't Even Properly Ban Corrupt Executives
Let's make this clear: No one believes Mohammed bin Hammam, the FIFA executive committee member instrumental in bringing the 2022 World Cup to his native Qatar, didn't bribe people. It's still pretty much accepted that bin Hammam was the brains behind the envelopes full of cash handed out to represe...
Female MMA Fighter Knocks Out Opponent On First Punch
This is a fairly standard beat down at some event you've never heard of. Girl tries to be sporting, girl's efforts are rebuffed, girl viciously knocks opponent out shortly thereafter....
Albert Breer Calling Someone From ESPN "Assface" Is Currently Front-Page News On The NFL Network's Website
Click the image above to enlarge it, then take a look at the running Twitter feed in the lower-middle section of what you see. Yep, that's Albert Breer calling Tim MacMahon of ESPN Dallas "Assface" on the main page of the NFL Network's website (a more complete image of the front page can be found he...
Jon "Bones" Jones Sounds Like He Really Doesn't Want To Fight Anderson Silva
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Jones calls it "a lose-lose situation."...
WWE Reenacted Chael Sonnen's Failed Spinning Backfist
On Saturday at UFC 14, Chael Sonnen attempted a spinning backfist that was ducked by Anderson Silva. Sonnen tripped, took a knee to the grill, and the fat lady started singing. Two days later on WWE Raw, CM Punk paid a bit of tribute to one of the more theatrical MMA endings in recent memory: he mis...
Didn't We Just Do This? <em>The Amazing Spider-Man</em>, Reviewed.
1. The Amazing Spider-Man is less a reboot than a recital. It's professionally made and competent and sincere and well-acted, but it never quite overcomes the nagging sense that there's no reason for it to exist. Well, actually, there is a reason: Sony, to keep the rights to the character, needed to...
Steelers Receiver Dropped From Anti-Littering Campaign After Pleading Guilty To Littering
Pittsburgh is cracking down on littering, and it's not messing around. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the city's mayor announced last month that "police will more strictly enforce the city's litter ordinances and fine scofflaws who throw trash on the ground." And, no, no one is above th...
The Thunder Are A Matchup Nightmare For Copy Editors. So Is The Heat.
Tonight's tipoff between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat is a milestone for American pro sports. For the first time, a major championship is pitting two teams whose names are mass nouns rather than ordinary plurals. The naming fad that gave us the Heat and the Orlando Magic at the end o...
Muhammad Ali Is Still The Greatest
The NCAA tournament came to Louisville Tucson this weekend, and the GOAT decided to take in last night's Arizona-UL game in his hometown retirement refuge. Unfortunately, his Cardinals were trounced by the Wildcats, but that's not the most regrettable aspect of the evening. ESPNU's cameras lingered...
UFC Star Jon "Bones" Jones Had Two Female Passengers When He Drunkenly Crashed His $250,000 Bentley
These days, when someone famous crashes their ride, we shouldn't assume we're going to get anything close to resembling the real story when initial details are released. It certainly happened with ex-Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino, and it appears to be happening with UFC light heavyweight cha...
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UFC Star Jon "Bones" Jones Arrested For DUI, Wrecks His Bentley [UPDATED]
According to the dogged sleuths at TMZ, Jon Jones was involved in a single car accident around 5 this morning when he wrapped his Bentley around a pole in Binghamton, N.Y. He was reportedly arrested on the scene for driving under the influence and taken into custody. He was bailed out a few hours l...
ESPN Writer Has <em>The Protocols Of Zion</em> On His Bookshelf
Late last week, ESPN's MMA writer Franklin McNeil appeared on an ESPN.com video previewing the big UFC pay-per-view fight between Jon Jones and Rashad Evans. In the video, McNeil talked about the bout while sitting in front of his bookshelf at his home. Clever D.I.Y. stagecraft! (Just a few weeks ag...
"Fake Ass White Boys:" A Brief History Of MMA Trash Talk In Advance Of UFC 145
After a year of injury-related cancellations, Jon Jones and Rashad Evans will finally fight tonight at UFC 145. The two best light heavies in the world were once teammates but they now hate each other with a passion that comes only from personal betrayal. I know, I know. You hear that whenever a fig...
Oregon Father And Son Build 1/3-Scale Fenway Park Replica On Their Farm
What was your backyard like? Perhaps you had a tire swing, or a play structure, or an above-ground pool. My yard abutted wetlands; mosquitos rose angrily every spring. Chances are, whatever you had, it wasn't as cool as what Jim Maciariello and his son Ben built in Drain, Oregon....