Newswire thoughts

Alright, sorry guys for taking a week and a half off essentially. Just a busy time around work right now and not too much going on in terms of MMA and baseball with my Mariners, although my Seahawks did clinch the NFC West and secure a playoff berth likely as the #3 seed in the [...]

Arkansas hires themselves no coach

Vince Lombardi would be rolling in his grave if he knew how a man of his great profession has acted in recent days. Heck, even less legendary coaching figures who have failed in the NFL after jumping from the college ranks before returning back to their passion of coaching student-athletes — Dennis Erickson, Pete Carroll [...]

Tournament proposal for Light Heavyweight division (UFC)

With Quinton Jackson set to defend his title against Forrest Griffin in July of 2008 it leaves the rest of the Light Heavyweight division battling each other for the title shot opportunity after Forrest Griffin. With so many top notch fighters in the division who could be in line, what better way to settle it [...]

TUF Finale on SPIKE definitely comes through

On Saturday night, Spike and the UFC brought us a night of fights that were nothing short of SPECTACULAR. Two of the year’s best fights in my opinion went down and the rest were very solid as well. But the two stellar fights of John “War Machine” Koppenhaver vs. Jared “J-Roc” Rollins on the undercard [...]

Dana White’s big announcement: Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Forrest Griffin TUF 7 coaches

Just when I thought that the UFC couldn’t get any dumber, they go and do something like this and do NOT totally redeem themselves lol, but seriously this move pisses me off.
I understand their motives. First of all Rampage and Forrest are slightly banged up and this gives them a chance to heal (but c’mon [...]

Andrei Arlovski talks with MMAmania.com

MMAmania.com did an interview with Andrei Arlovski this week. He’s in my top 5 favorite fighters in the UFC and it seriously pains me to see the UFC treating him like this.
I’ve been thinking about this situation and it seems like it would be in the UFC’s best interests to offer Andrei a fight for [...]

UFC title holder mess

I know I alluded to a post that would attempt at solving the mess the UFC has with its titles but there are so many issues that have to be considered and information that I’m not privy to that it’s hard to give a real accurate solution but I’m gonna do my best and it [...]

A’s to sign Bonds??

So there’s a report out that essentially points to the A’s “most definitely” signing Barry Bonds, Mr. my head is the size of Texas, Mr. “I didn’t know that was a steroid, I thought it was lotion” *mock stupid voice* — yeah, that guy. Man, and here I was hoping that finally this annoying sideshow, [...]

Winter Meetings: Day 3 over for the Mariners

Well, not too much to report on the Seattle Mariners front after day 3. It seems that the Johan Santana — whom I knew all along would be pulled off the block until mid-season — is in fact being pulled off the block, well sorta, at this point.
The Twins are not overwhelmed with any offers [...]

Tim Sylvia confirms he’s fighting at UFC 81: Breaking Point

Tim Sylvia has announced through his myspace that his next fight is indeed at UFC 81 as has been expected with the recent news of Randy Couture turning down a fight contract with Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera. The interesting thing about this, though, is that no opponent has been announced yet and Sylvia himself made it [...]