First up: A quick recap of last week’s controversial Akira-Neace fight, in which everyone in the world thinks Akira tapped besides Akira, Bisping and Herb Dean. And everyone in the world thinks Akira and Bisping acted like idiots, taunting Neace…
Monthly Archives: October 2011
The ups and downs of promotion and relegation
by Beau Dure • • 4 Comments
Long the province of cranky conversations in the virtual soccer community, promotion and relegation leaped into the news in recent days with a couple of pieces of bad reporting: 1. An English executive of some kind, Richard Bevan, claimed that…
Single-Digit Soccer: When do you split the kids?
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
In the single-digit years, kids have two reasons for playing soccer: 1. Getting good at it, competing and challenging themselves. 2. Being on a team with their buddies. Some kids play for both reasons; some for just one. But at…
The Ultimate Fighter: Season 14, Episode 5: Bisping’s bad, he’s bad, you know it
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
Really not a fan of the mouthpiece shots in the opening credits. Arlovski has creative. These guys? No. Mayhem calls in his team for a quick huddle after Dustin Pague’s win over Louis Greenhairnot. Dustin asks if they can yell…
Design the Rio 2016 golf course!
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One of the underreported curiosities about the decisions to rid the Olympics of baseball and softball in favor of rugby and golf is that a golf course is a good bit harder to build than a softball diamond. So if…
Union opens up in fight against the UFC
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If union group Unite HERE is trying to get sympathy in its long-standing dispute with the Fertitta brothers and their business, Station Casinos, they don’t seem to be succeeding. So they’ve ratcheted up the pressure. They decided a while ago…
The Ultimate Fighter: Season 14, Episode 4: You know the matchup, but can you stop it?
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Who decided that a bantam was lighter than a feather? Never really understood that. Next matchup: Stephen Bass (Bisping featherweight) vs. Dennis Bermudez (Miller). We learn this from Louis Gaudinot, who tells his coach Bisping, who heard it from (sigh)…
UFC 136 and my love/hate relationship with MMA
by Beau Dure • • 4 Comments
UFC 136 was one of those events that showed how mixed martial arts has evolved into a enthralling athletic competition and how it hasn’t. Let’s start with the bad news, the antics that show how the sport’s fan base is…