Jordan Breen raises a question along those lines on Twitter today, linking to video of a dreadful performance by MMA/kickboxing veteran Gary Goodridge and wondering how promoters can keep trotting him out into the ring. The fight’s horrible — opponent…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Time to transition to a post-FIFA world? (Or World Cup, anyway?)
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
The FIFA World Cup bid process long ago descended into farce long ago. BBC’s long-threatened Panorama investigation, released a couple of days before the Big Bid Vote, is stark but not really surprising. We’ve all known for a while that…
Settling all MLS dilemmas in one easy fix (maybe)
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
The big issues coming out of MLS Cup weekend, among the media and the hard-core supporters (most of whom are “media” in some sense, even if it’s just a prolific Twitter habit) were: 1. This game is ending far too…
Biathlon team surprises
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Last year, biathlete Haley Johnson got a few World Cup points. This year, she isn’t going to the World Cup or IBU Cup. In February, Wynn Roberts got a start in the Olympics. This winter? No slot on the team.…
Is MLS too physical?
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
This is a story I worked on through much of the MLS season, but the timing to run it was never quite right. I just updated a couple of figures and posted it here instead. Early in the MLS season,…
The big MLS playoff and schedule announcement
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
As you may have already heard, MLS announced two things Sunday night to coincide with MLS Cup: 1. They’re looking into a change in scheduling to align with the international calendar, which in many parts of the world means an…
‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ Season 12, Episode 10: Kos keeps talking
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Should we really root for Michael Johnson over Alex Caceres? No doubt Caceres has had his annoying moments, but after seeing Johnson flip out over a pretty harmless kitchen-sink prank and falsely blame Caceres, the sympathy meter might flip toward…
‘The Ultimate Fighter,” Season 12, Episode 9: 1-1
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
After a brief glimpse at the house in which Sevak asks fellow Armenian Sako (“Psycho”) to avenge his loss to Jonathan Brookins, we go to the gym, where Georges St. Pierre tells his team they’re scaling back training. No hard-core…