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This card got a lot of flak for being underwhelming when it was announced. It was promoted very well, The fighters all swung for the fences. I didn't have a dog in the first few fights, but the last four went exactly alongside my rooting interests (which always helps your mood and attitude). One...

Hey look! It's glorious Nippon!

I would ask you to hold off judgment until we see his performance at UFC 250. If Hokit wins, maybe this will become known as an innovative pre-fight preparation method. If he loses, he should probably withhold from this "cutting weight by puking" method, especially when he's already 34 lbs under...

It was a pretty fun game between South Korea and Czech Republic last night, although the wrong team won in the end. This will have been one of the few games of the tournament between non-brown teams compromised entirely of athletes of their own nation's ancestry. While my primary complaint is...

Tortorella is easy to like. I've never managed to progress past the most casual hockey fandom, even though the playoff hockey is consistently enjoyable. Some of the biggest personalities (and most recognizable faces) seem to be the coaches.

I'm withdrawing my tepid support for the Mexican team as their first goal was scored by a cornrow-braided, tongue-clicking, authentic bone-in-nose African (born and raised in Colombia). Not even "Mexico for the Mexicans" anymore! And the fans haven't even yelled "Puto!" yet.

Very flattering long-form piece about Josh Hokit, dating back to his high school football recruitment. Inside UFC heavyweight star Josh Hokit's time as a college football walk-on Worth a skim, especially for some embedded videos. Here are some of the interesting passages: This is a flip from...

Among the non-qualifiers, Italy played a friendly this week and included six Africans on its roster, by far a record for their once-proud squad. I think they were all "naturalized" African immigrants. Italy's interim coach, Silvio Baldini, called up only U21 players (which is the team he...

Bryce wins with an unconventionlal triangle (?) Very well-spoken in victory

Bryce Mitchell is on the undercard. I'm kinda shocked that he's still allowed to fight under contract. He's cut weight back to 136 lbs i think. What kind of a man could do that?

That's actually Matt Kiatipis, a Greek streetballer from Toronto. Apparently, he's 6'3, 26 years old, played D2 basketball somewhere in North Carolina, and claims a 45" vertical (lol). He's signed to Creative Artists Agency (not a sports agency) and is trying to pitch a TV show. If the NCAA...

Norway "only" has two African midfielders on its roster. Both of them started in this week's tune-up friendly and featured regularly in qualifying. Sweden's roster includes 5 blacks, an Arab, and a naturalized Albanian. Austria has folded 4 Africans into its squad (and two Serbians). Finland...

That's what jumped out to me, also. He should have been on a six-figure salary from a D1 school of his choosing. In 2021, high school sprinter Brandon Miller won the 200m nationals with a time of 20.49 (he'd also won the indoor title earlier that year). Miller had to win the collegiate DII...