Sure. But if Fedor prefers his name to be spelled Fedor instead of Fyodor, wouldn’t you be inclined to oblige?

Regarding journalism, what standards are there for editorials vs. factual news pieces? I always under impression that editorials don’t need to conform to the same objective standards. That North Dakota is clearly an editorial.

Traditionally, editorial pieces are supposed to be opinion pieces where you made a solid argument for or against something whereas factual pieces simply list a set of facts and let the reader reach their own conclusions. Even though an editorial is an opinion piece, though, if you make a false claim, you should/will get called out on it given that your logical process will be interupted by the incorrect fact(s) so either you’d have to redirect your argument or concede the point.

In both cases, misleading/false facts are (generally) looked down upon given that even op-eds are (usually) basing their opinions on a series of favorable facts (even to the exclusion of opposing facts at times).

It’s the same as writing “Vanderlei” or “Fyodor Yemelyanenko”.

Ortiz should be a stylistic nightmare for Machida. This fight will answer a lot of questions regarding the pecking order of LHW, Machida’s abilities, and how far Ortiz has fallen.

The second important fight is Jardine VS Silva. This should tell us which Jardine is the real one, the one who beat Forrest Griffin or the one that dropped one to no-name Houston Alexander. I feel that Silva will lose this fight by decision and also drop down to middle weight in the process. Unfortunately for him, size does matter, and Jardine is just too big.

As far as Penn and Sherk is concerned, I expect an anti-climatic one sided beat down by Penn to prove that he should be the #1 ranked lightweight. Anything else would be a real surprise.

This is the second time you spell Machida’s name as “Ryoto.”

I think you’re the last blogger to still use the mispelling of “Ryoto” Machida. Machida himself has stated that it’s spelled “Lyoto.”

Regarding the “shocking” piece on “backyard brawls”, I thought it was fine. They even quoted an MMA gym owner and stated that MMA is regulated and safer than unregulated street fights, which seemed to me to be the entire point of the article. Don’t know what was so shocking about it.