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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Bryan Burwell (NBC Sports & St. Louis Post-Dispatch): With Kimbo-mania, CBS has jumped into the abyss of human cockfighting Mike Chiappetta (NBC Sports): Some MMA coverage deserving of beatdown The Missoulian (MT): Kimbo, CBS don’t put new sport’s best fist forward The Dayton Daily News (OH): The demand for MMA doesn’t justify airing it The […]
The New York Times is watching you, MMA bloggers
Monday, June 2nd, 2008MMA Predictions has released a Google Gadget that will deliver a new MMA fighter to your Google HP each morning. It’s a unique way to be exposed to certain fighters you may not be familiar with yet. Here is the link to the gadget. The New York Times has two articles today talking about the […]
Stick-and-ball US sportswriters are throwing a fit about EXC on CBS
Thursday, May 29th, 2008What a weekend this is going to be for MMA action, with the Elite XC special Saturday night on CBS and then Jens Pulver vs. Urijah Faber in front of 10,000+ fans at Arco Arena in Sacramento on Sunday night (TV: Versus Network). Expect a ton of broadsheet media coverage. Some of it will be […]
Today’s chalkboard (5/28/08)
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Luke Thomas is looking for new writers. Hall of Fame Magazine: Gina Carano – quite a knockout The Hill (DC): UFC hires Washington D.C. lobbying firm MMA Payout: What UFC’s latest lobbying move is really all about The LA Times: “UFC attempts to be more controlling than other sports. UFC sounds like it’s trying to […]
Has UFC’s competition been priced out of the MMA market?
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Mirko Cro Cop vs. Ralek Gracie at DREAM 4 in the dream grappling match you’ve all waited for. Onto today’s headlines. Steve Cofield: Audio of UFC 84 post-fight insanity AOL Fanhouse: Dana White rips reporter who called him ‘The White Don King’ TMZ: Jacko enjoys smacko through cracko Josh Gross: Many star fighters, but just […]
Analyzing the fallout from UFC 84
Monday, May 26th, 2008Josh Barnett is booked for two upcoming Inoki Genome shows in Japan — 6/23 Tsukisamu Green Dome (Sapporo) and 8/15 in Tokyo at Ryogoku Kokugikan. I added the RSS feed for The Long Beach Press-Telegram on the site. For some reason, the RSS feed doesn’t work on the clickthroughs. Not sure why it’s broken. Onto […]
UFC 84 discussion
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Quick sidenote: Our friend, Erin Bucknell, is looking for new writers/photographers to bring onto the MMACalifornia.net web site. If you’re in the state and can help her out, please contact her. Thanks. Results in full-page mode. Plus, Luke Thomas has an audio recap covering the UFC 84 event (audio here). Also added: Media headlines covering […]
A new game to play: Where in the world is Dana White
Saturday, May 24th, 2008The Canadian Press: Bad blood and good fighters highlight UFC 84 card in Las Vegas Fox Sports: Breaking down UFC 84 – Sherk vs. Penn The Washington Post: Sean Sherk faces both BJ Penn and steroid issue The Dayton Daily News: Can Sean Sherk become the world’s top lightweight? The LA Times: Tito Ortiz’s UFC […]
Steroid talk dominates media heat-up for UFC 84 event
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Sherdog is bringing in a lot of new and veteran writing talent on their site now (including Loretta Hunt and Brian Knapp of TFN fame). It is definitely a positive move in the right direction. Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Coleman is officially canceled. Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Melvin Manhoef has been booked for 6/15 at Yokohama […]
Fight Opinion Radio #81: UFC 84 preview and sabermetrics in MMA
Friday, May 23rd, 2008We are joined this week by the man behind FightMetric.com to preview this Saturday’s UFC 84 event. We have predictions for all the major fights on the show, which includes usage of data from the Fight Metric web site. Plus, an interesting question is posed on the show about the future role of sabermetrics and […]
Today’s chalkboard (5/22/08)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008We should have an audio preview of this upcoming UFC event either available tonight or early tomorrow morning. New Hampshire is preparing for MMA legislation. Onto today’s headlines. The Las Vegas Sun: The art in UFC’s violence – fighters, emotion, blood captured in book, exhibit The Las Vegas Sun: Glorified jock posters or art, project […]
Will Affliction draw serious money promoting events?
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008The upcoming Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Maurice Smith fight for Sengoku 3 on 6/8 at Saitama Super Arena is being pushed in the Japanese media as a battle between two fighters who are a combined 85 years old. Onto today’s headlines. The Long Beach Press-Telegram: Affliction throws itself into the mix (note the comment about not […]
Gus Johnson is ready to run wild, brother
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Intriguingly, Gus Johnson of CBS Sports will be the play-by-play man for the Elite XC debut show on CBS. I have ribbed Mauro Ranallo about this in the past, but make no mistake about it – Johnson (in an interview with Bill Simmons on ESPN) was very serious about getting into MMA. You can’t go […]
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