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...unless you count "no biting, no eye-gouging"), bare-knuckle competition so bloody it once was decried by Senator John McCain and the American Medical Association, banned by New York State and dropped by pay-per-view cable. Match results are covered by the Las Vegas Review Journal's sports pages. At a bout last month, audience members included Shaquille O'Neal (who the owners say once asked them to change the date of a fight because he had a game), Juliette Lewis, Cindy Crawford and her husband, Rande Gerber. The sport, which seems to involve a lot of submission...
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...SPORT: Skateboarding for women; a bike for rusty adults...
...cable TV debut of the World Poker Tour, the game took off again. "The games are classy affairs with megabucks at stake, and there are a lot of new people in the game," says World Poker Tour commentator Mike Sexton. "Poker is seen as a competition and a sport now, not as gambling per se." These days, the Golden Nugget, whose poker rooms shut down in 1989, is holding tournaments seven nights a week. One Nugget regular is Steve Kaufman, 58, a university professor and former rabbi from Cincinnati, Ohio, who keeps a second home in Las Vegas, and placed...
...rules of FIFA, the sport's international governing body, allow a player the option of either representing their adopted country, or their country of origin - although once such a choice is made at senior international level, it cannot be reversed. A longstanding joke held that to play for the Republic of Ireland, a player simply had to prove that his grandfather drank Guinness, and to be sure, many players who'd struggle ever to make the national team in their home country are happy to find ancestral roots that give them an outing on the international stage and improve their...