Why Competition Is Good For The Growth Of MMA

The third event from up and coming mixed martial arts promoter Affliction was supposed to have taken place on Saturday, August 1 in Anaheim, Calif.  The show was entitled “Trilogy” and was supposed to feature a main event of Russian heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko battling Josh Barnett.  Last week Barnett tested positive for an anabolic steroid [...]

MLB Trade Deadline 2009 Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers

Toronto Blue Jay pitching ace Roy Halladay is undoubtedly the biggest name available in this year’s Major League Baseball non-waiver trade deadline on July 31.  The Dodgers have been mentioned as a possible destination for the seven time all-star and 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner. Toronto GM J.P. Ricciardi has set a July 28 deadline for [...]

Derek Fisher Hits Amazing 33 Foot Shot

  Lakers guard Derek Fisher hit this shot from 33 feet away and several stories up while at Nokia Plaza to promote the Lakers upcoming 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament that will be held Aug. 14-16 to benefit Ronald McDonald House of Charities in Southern California.

UFC 100 Thoughts

Coming into this past Saturday, UFC 100 was the sports highest profile and most anticipated event of the year.  Featuring a stacked card with many of the sports biggest names, the event more than delivered. Brock Lesnar showed us a couple of things about himself.  The first is that he is clearly the most dominant heavyweight in [...]

UFC 100 Predictions

This year’s most anticipated MMA event UFC 100 will be taking place this Saturday night, July 11 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.  The card is stacked to say the least and features six of the top fighters in the world today.  Below are my predictions on the main event: Brock Lesnar vs. [...]

Kings Acquire Ryan Smyth in trade with Colorado

Last week I wrote that the Los Angeles Kings offseason had been a disappointment up til then as they were unable to make any moves to add a solid veteran forward to their young and talented core of players.  Just hours after posting that story, Los Angeles was able to acquire veteran winger Ryan Smyth in a [...]

Lakers Re-sign Shannon Brown

Now that free agents can officially sign with teams, the Lakers made a wise move in re-signing  guard Shannon Brown to a two-year, $4.2 million deal.  The second year of the deal is a player option.  Plain and simple, this was a signing that needed to be done.  Brown provided solid contributions off the bench [...]

LA Kings Offseason: Disappointing

The Los Angeles Kings are coming off another disappointing season in which they finished in 14th place out of 15 teams in the Western Conference missing the playoffs for the sixth straight season (there were no playoffs in 2005 because of the lockout).  As someone who has seen many more downs than ups while following [...]

Hypocrisy Rules Sports As We Know It Today

For years when Barry Bonds stepped to the plate at any baseball stadium other than AT&T Park in San Francisco he was greeted with an overwhelming chorus of boos.  Not only was he booed because he was the other teams best player but because he was considered the poster child for cheating.  Of the many [...]

Lakers Make Right Move In Going With Artest

No sooner than I posted up my latest entry Thursday that the news came down that Ron Artest would be coming to Los Angeles and Trevor Ariza would be heading to Houston.  So much for my opinion that Ariza should be the Lakers top off season priority. (For the record, I still feel he should have been [...]