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Ultimate fighting, a blood sport for the video 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...
...More Than Zero "I'm sorry," as Arenas likes to write, but I'm not done with his score-settling, trash-talking, philosophical-waxing Agent Zero Blog, which is not only the best sports blog on the Web, but the best blog, period. Here, for your enjoyment, is more recent Gilbertology: "Can you please take the hockey teams out of basketball arenas? Basketball is not supposed to be played on ice. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just me, but I hate going to arenas where it's 60 degrees outside and 50 degrees inside. That...
...combined record of 13-0. “It’s definitely been the best fall season we’ve had since I’ve been at Harvard,” said co-captain Phillip W. Roebuck ’08. Red Line, like all club sports at Harvard, gets just $400 a year from the Athletic Department. The team’s competitors are club teams as well, but many of them receive greater levels of financial support, Roebuck said. Brown’s Ultimate team receives $15,000 in funding from the school?...
...Still, in a nation where every touch of boot to ball carries cataclysmic importance, "For any sport to try and successfully enter the market and build a large and sustainable fan base would be incredibly difficult," says Simon Chadwick, professor and director of the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre at the University of London. That won't deter them from trying. The NBA, which in 2006 plucked its top draft pick from Italy and featured 2007 regular-season and Finals MVPs from Germany and France, can "absolutely" grow to rival soccer's popularity in Europe, says Heidi Ueberroth, president of global...
...when games drag on, viewers tune out, explaining why so many Americans are turned off by their national pastime. In the end, this will be profitable neither for Major League Baseball nor for the networks that are no longer being watched. More personally, it makes the sport seem unconcerned with welcoming baseball newcomers...