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Court No.2 at London's Lambs club is the closest thing to a spiritual home for the game of squash. For decades, its white walls and clear glass back have locked the sport's top players into duels for some of its highest honors; photographs of those big names - from Pakistan's Jahangir Khan to Australia's Geoff Hunt - hang on the wall behind a steep bank of polished, wooden seats...
...offer two simple reasons that Britain's Premier League is dominating. Football is the world's sport, and English is the world's language. Justin Eckl, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA...
Vanessa Porto made her name in one of the most watched videos on Brazilian sports websites. There, Porto, 23, took on an opponent named Cristiane Cyborg, a woman much bigger and heavier than her in Vale Tudo, the pastime North Americans call Ultimate Fighting. Porto did not win that fight but she stood her ground and ended the match on her feet, becoming a legend by aggressively going the distance. Now, Ultimate Fighting is Porto's career and she one of a handful of women who are rising stars in the controversial male-dominated sport...
...career. "Nobody could understand how Vanessa, who is much lighter, just kept going for round after round, and not only resisting but fighting back with great aggression," said Mauricio Costa, a Vale Tudo promoter who runs the B-Tough Agency in Rio de Janeiro, a world center of the sport...
...Vale Tudo is increasingly attracting young women with a background in martial arts from all over the world. "Brazilian women are the best in the world today," said Daniel Otero, who is 24 and one of the world's foremost Vale Tudo fighters. Otero and others involved with the sport here believe that both Brazilian men and women have an advantage because they are often experts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the art of grappling on the ground developed by world-renowned fighter Helio Gracie, and popularized by his nine sons around the world. Gracie...