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UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos is as vicious and violent as it gets when the opening bell rings, yet grins blissfully with the youthful naivety of a young boy when ungloved and disarmed. The champion's soul remains young, his heart still at home in Cacador.
Despite numerous pull-outs and substitutions, the remaining match-ups still intrigue and promise much in the way drama.
If the experts in traumatic brain injury think there's value in using genotyping to gauge the risks of high-impact sports for their own children, as noted by the authors in a recent research paper, it must be of value to others, too.
Mr. Sai lost his horse, and everyone thought he was very unlucky. Then the horse came back, bringing with it a herd of wild horses. Now everyone thought Mr. Sai was very lucky.
"It's silly to come all the way to China for a continental championship," says a friend of mine as we pore over the bracket sheets trying to figure ou...
Team USA's got the blues. Not even the arrival of journalist Raquel Ruiz could dispel the gloom when Queen Underwood lost her Olympic bid.
By: Noah J. Nelson It's hard to imagine two parts of American culture-- mixed martial arts and Christianity-- that on the surface are more incompatib...
Will President Obama be Jack Johnson-ed? If he becomes a single-term President, will he become the symbol of why blacks can't be trusted with the office? Will it be like some sort of cultural experiment?
Fightville is a documentary about the sport of Mixed Martial Arts, a.k.a. Ultimate Fighting, a particularly intense brand of man-to-man combat where very few holds are barred.
There is really no simulation that can even remotely replicate the experience of real combat; the stark terror, the brain numbing horror, the absolute loss of control, and the gut wrenching images, sounds, and smells burned forever into one's consciousness.
The major events of a match are planned and discussed beforehand, and so is the outcome. Some major events are definitely planned; for instance, someone might interfere in a match just as the bad guy, or "heel" is about to lose.
Does it make sense to build a new state university when so many are already experiencing short falls? The actions of both our state legislature and Governor have left the class of 2012 scarred.
Last week, John Cena's losing slump continued and Brock Lesnar delivered some of the nastiest trash talking seen in years. The two superstars will me...
in the church world, the biggest misnomer is that sex is somehow dirty or shameful, or less than sacred, sizzling and sexy! God created us with pleasure in mind.
By: Noah J. Nelson In Fightville, directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein get down and dirty on the front lines of the mixed martial arts world....
Poirier is an interesting figure -- but his story itself, at least as told in Fightville, isn't all that involving.
