Slight change in the opening credits from season past — it’s almost all fight footage. Very little from the gym. It’s as if they’re sending a message that the fights this season are going to be as impressive as we…
Monthly Archives: September 2011
The Frimpong questions
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Former UC-Santa Barbara soccer player Eric Frimpong, now serving time for an alleged rape, has lost another round in court. Bill Archer has reacted angrily, dropping giant tomes of evidence suggesting that Frimpong is a long-suffering victim of a misguided…
Single-Digit Soccer: The Shin Guardian “treatise” and the fundamentals
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
A blog post making the rounds this week is the ambitiously headlined “A Treatise: The State of American Youth Soccer.” To underscore how serious an effort this post really is, The Shin Guardian presents it with an intro saying the…
The Ultimate Fighter: Season 14, Episode 1
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
I’m optimistic about this season. It might be because they’re bringing bantamweights and featherweights into the mix, two weight classes that haven’t already been scraped of their top talent by several seasons of this show and years of UFC scouting.…
Kids in the cage: How not to do mixed martial arts
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
A big fear for the UFC and other reputable MMA promotions is that some promoter or sports commission with more brashness than brains will put on a card that puts the sport in a bad light or actually gets someone…
Single-Digit Soccer: Do small-sided games backfire?
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
Start with a nearly unanimous point in today’s youth soccer: We don’t take 6-year-olds who’ve never played soccer and fling them out onto a 110-by-70 field playing 11-on-11 games. We start them with small-sided games where they can get used…
2012 medal projection update: Track and field
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
SECOND update (July 10-11, 2012) Original posts are here: men’s running, women’s running, field events. The results that matter: 2011 World Championships in Daegu and the 2012 top performances. Changes are in bold italic. MEN 100 meters: Jamaica’s Yohan Blake has gone from…
The Atlantic, the NCAA and the wrong discussion
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
By now, you’ve probably seen at least three of your friends Tweet or share The Atlantic’s sprawling expose, The Shame of College Sports. My question: Was anyone else disappointed? Is anyone else worried that the wrong issues are emphasized? A…