Here’s a pretty sweet knockout in Canadian junior league that sent the announcing team into a frenzy. Enjoy it while I finish up Power Rankings and get Weekend Picks ready to go for you. And then I’m off to see Cedar Rapids, because John C. Reilly is the only thing you can count on coming out of Hollywood these days.
OJ Simpson’s quest to find the real killers was derailed in 2008 when he was sentenced to 33 years in Nevada state prison for armed robbery. That mission hit another bump in the road when Simpson got his ass kicked in the prison yard, according to a report released today by the National Enquirer.
Inmates cheered as a muscular young skinhead knocked him to the ground, punching and kicking him to a bloody pulp and inflicting injuries so severe he secretly spent nearly three weeks in the infirmary before he recovered.
The humiliating beating left 63-year-old Simpson in agony – and threw him into a spiral of depression so deep that he’s now afraid to venture out of his cell, divulge sources.[..]
Unknown to the former NFL star, The Juice has been a marked man behind bars ever since white supremacists overheard him brag about his sexual conquests of beautiful white women.
Oh, sure. Label the guy a racist. He had to watch The Naked Gun movies just like the rest of us. Like the Queen of England could ever throw a curveball like that. We’re not idiots, Hollywood!
Via The Score, whose Naked Gun joke was much better than mine.
Just got off the phone with Nevada Corrections: “no truth whatsoever” to OJ Simpson story. “He’s perfectly fine and healty” [sic]
Wow. This could seriously damage the credibility of the National Enquirer.
Another video after the jump for you this afternoon, one that’s filled with all of the human drama that one could want. It’s a classic “Man fights man/man taunts other man/other man polishes off man’s face with an uppercut for the ages” tale, just like your mom used to read to you at night before your stepdad roughed her up for sex. Who says women didn’t work in those days. Anyway, this was a Super Six fight (whatever that is) between Lucian Bute (white guy…duh…Lucian? C’mon, man) and Edison Miranda.
About midway through the round, a left uppercut identical to the one that had felled Librado Andrade for the count almost did the same to Miranda, who masked his distress by pounding his own abs. A moment later, another shot hurt him. This time Miranda posed, then charged with his head down, making Bute’s perfectly timed uppercut all the more potent. Edison thudded face first to the canvas. Although his conditioning allowed him to beat the count, he was finished; referee Ernie Sharif didn’t think twice about stopping it.
–The Sweet Science.
People always want to rank boxing over MMA or vice versa for some reason; it’s an argument that doesn’t really interest me, because all I want is a good killshot. If I have to wait 20, even 30 minutes for it, that’s fine. Because all I want is to watch the sweat get popped off some guy’s head while his unconscious body falls to the canvas. Is that asking for so much? Read the rest of this entry »
The featured gentleman in this post is Hawthorn’s Jordan Lewis, of Aussie rules football fame. Lewis decides to chase down a ball in the vicinity of Bulldogs player Jarrod Harbrow and gets totally leveled for his trouble. You can tell by the way the arms jut out from his body. It’s as if he’s trying to doggie-paddle toward that white light.
Enjoy the hit after the jump, and then celebrate the carnage with a 25-ounce can of beer that tastes like watered down motor oil. Or don’t. Hey, I’m not your mother. You can do whatever you want. Read the rest of this entry »
The Penguins’ Matt Cooke is one of those guys that skates around trying to instigate trouble with the other side; he’s sort of like a hockey mother-in-law. But leave it to a guy named Evander Kane to finally shut the front door. Kane gets one look at Cooke and he can’t get his gloves off fast enough. And then the drama unfolds the way you’d expect when a black guy fights a white guy. It’s all waiting for you after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
So DREAM.13, the pay-per-view-style event for the Japanese MMA outfit, happened on Monday. I don’t know if it was a pay-per-view per se, but it was that sort of event. Anyway, the biggest business of the night was delivered to Yoshihiro Maeda, who absorbed a badass combo from the former WEC featherweight champ Cole Escovedo.
Although Escovedo promised to beat Maeda with a triangle choke, the fight never went to the ground. In the first couple of minutes, both fighters threw kicks, punches and knees, but it was Escovedo that landed the big shot. He knocked Maeda out cold with a head kick that immediately followed an inside leg kick. It was a beautiful combination that resulted in a spectacular victory for the resilient Escovedo. –Eddie Graveline/Examiner.
So yeah, and then Escovedo pounced on him like a cat on one of those feather thingies on the string. And your GIF is after the jump. Just delightful. Read the rest of this entry »
