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...under White and Fertitta, Ultimate Fighting has gained a lot of respect. In the 1990s, critics like Senator John McCain were deriding ultimate fighting as barbaric, and the public was aghast at the mixed martial arts bloodbaths. The sport was banned in state after state. But the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization slowly built interest among young people, filling the void left by professional boxing, cleaning up the rules and marketing itself through the reality show The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. The show helped humanize the fighters, managing to coax nobility out of their quests for martial arts fame. Spike...
...game generation, has been one of the most sensational successes of 21st century athletics. The spectacle of fighters kicking, punching, stomping, elbowing and suffocating each other into unconsciousness has successfully pulled fans away from boxing. Its champions have become household names. And the sport's leading promoter, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has become all that professional boxing had ceased to be: well-run, well-marketed, with fighters who are seemingly happy to sacrifice their bodies and craniums for glory and relatively low pay. Elite gladiators endure punishment for somewhere between $250,000 and $500,000 a fight, the lesser-known...
...Last year, Harvard finished 23-8-2 overall with a 17-4-1 record in conference play, placing it second in the league. The team finished the season ranked sixth in nation and made its fifth straight appearance in the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately, the Crimson’s national championship dreams were crushed when it lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament to No. 1 ranked Wisconsin 1-0 in a bitterly fought four-overtime game. The Badgers went on to win the national championship. This season the team comes back without former co-captain Julie Chu. Last...
...Tell the Harvard team to bring home the Ivy Championship,” he said. “I’m definitely rooting for them...
While it is far from definite, if the team can win its final two games of the season, it will have a good shot at making the NCAA Championship, either as Ivy League champion or as an at-large selection...