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The Last Laugh: Mailer And Ali By George Plimpton

Norman Mailer went out running with Muhammad Ali one morning, a few days before the fight with George Foreman in Zaire. He asked me to go with him, but I thought of the long ride to Ali’s training camp at N’Sele in the darkness, and thumping along for five miles or so in the wake of the challenger, ...

G.O.A.T

It ain't cheap but Taschen Books' tribute to Muhammad Ali, Greatest of All Time, sure is fucking fabulous. ...

Chael Sonnen Now Making Domestic Violence Jokes About Rihanna [UPDATE]

As has been exhaustively documented here, much to the displeasure of his core fanbase of men's rights activists, truthers, and racists, Fox Sports 1 pundit/middling professional fighter Chael Sonnen is a shitbag, or at least someone willing to play one on television for money, which amounts to the s...

This Is The Funniest MMA Knockout Of 2013

Derrick Mehmen landed a shot on the side of Rolles Gracie's face that didn't seem particularly brutal in the second round during Saturday night's World Series of Fight 5. Oh, but it was....

Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline

Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's son, Mark Kram Jr., a wonderful storyteller in his own right. His postscript follows. For a contemporary, but very different, glimpse of Ali, check out Davis Miller's story about his day...

American Nightmare: <em>Blue Caprice</em>, Reviewed

1. The John Muhammed/Lee Malvo Beltway shootings in October 2002 continue to occupy a specific segment of the American nightmare. The twisted, horrible genius of the killings was their selective randomness: The Beltway snipers chose their targets specifically so that people would believe they could...

The Greatest Comic Book Of 'Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali

One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams. ...

Anthony Pettis wins the UFC lightweight title. There is a prevailing theory that winning MMA is necessarily kind of dry; Pettis—a preposterously flashy striker who won the title in his home town with a brilliant armbar probably even he didn't see coming—is its refutation, and his win makes us happy....

Vice's Artsy MMA Site Is Pretty Much A UFC Front

Last December, Vice launched Fightland, a mildly artsy fight game site. So far, it's more or less lived up to the expectations you'd have for a mildly artsy fight game site run by Vice....

Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson

Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...

Fox Sports 1's Debut Will Be Headlined By Terrible Fights

Past the public rhetoric about jockularity and fun and providing an alternative to the tweedy intellectualism of ESPN (no really), Fox Sports 1's strategy is simple and sensible: air sports people want to watch. You're not going to conquer America with Champions League soccer, Major League Baseball,...

Leaked Memo: Bleacher Report's Top Eight Ways To Not Piss Off The UFC

A tipster passes along the following email sent around to Bleacher Report's MMA writers last year. It was written by Jeremy Botter, a lead MMA writer for B/R who also covers the fights for the Houston Chronicle. There is some good advice here (don't publish random bullshit!) and some weird advice he...

Ronda Rousey Ranted At "Twitter Bitches" For The Silliest Of Reasons

Armbar specialist Ronda Rousey caught some attention Thursday for wondering out loud about retirement. She says she "realistically" has two years left in fighting, and started thinking about her future after coming very close to losing to Liz Carmouche in February. Now, Rousey's angry about how peop...

Timberwolves Make Empty D-League Threat To Shabazz Muhammad

Timberwolves general manager Flip Saunders is not pleased with rookie Shabazz Muhammad's career to this point, leading him to make one of the emptier threats in the NBA: If you don't shape up, we'll send you to THE D-LEAGUE....

Shabazz Muhammad Sent Home From Rookie Program For Having Girl In Room

USA Today reports that Timberwoves rookie Shabazz Muhammad was sent home from the NBA's Rookie Transition Program today. Why? Because he had *gasp* a girl in his room, and unauthorized guests are strictly forbidden at the transition program....

Mind The Gap

From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...

Cardboard Busts

Via Oddity Central, dig these busts of famous people by Scott Fife. ...

In Lieu Of UFC Highlights, Embarrassing Videos Of A UFC Executive VP

The UFC, a leading mixed martial arts promotion, has an exciting pay-per-view card scheduled tonight, on which fighters will surely demonstrate beautiful artistry and competitive spirit. We would like to show you brief clips or .gifs of the exciting action, which would perhaps encourage you to buy f...

In The Boom Boom Room

Dip over to Salon and dig the most gifted Jennifer Egan:...

Because “Bitter Smell Of Vicious, Cynical Self-Loathing” Would’ve Been A Hard Sell

Here's my pal Emma Span:...