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My Dad Got Lost at Sea While Defecting from Cuba

Growing up in Miami, Jorge Masvidal learned two things: Cuba was a place worth loving, and it was a place worth leaving. Masvidal has yet to visit his family’s homeland. All he knows of Cuba come through the stories. The UFC lightweight shares a few of them.

The Boxer, the Murder, and the Hard Fall from Grace

Evans Quinn was a local legend in rural Bluefields, Nicaragua, an immensely talented heavyweight who fought his way out of poverty. Then he lost some fights, returned home, and got into a feud that turned deadly.

Why Didn't We Elect Bill Lee for President?

Bill Lee says controversial things. The former Boston Red Sox lefty cum New England cult hero once compared the New York Yankees to Nazis and "a bunch of hookers swinging their purses." He has written about his desire to bite the ear off an umpire over a call in the 1975 World Se…

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In East Harlem They Do MMA the Bruce Lee Way

Dawadah has never had a gym—just a heavy bag and a wooden training dummy stored in an East Harlem community room closet. For ten dollars a class, he’ll train anyone with an interest in Jeet Kune Do, the hybrid martial arts system developed by Bruce Lee.

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MMA Worldwide - Afghanistan

Fightland travels to Kabul, Afghanistan, to meet Rohullah Mohammadi, a five-time kickboxing gold medalist who's devoted his life to teaching the kids of his war-torn country the art of MMA.

Three Artists Critique MMA Fashion

I loathe MMA T-shirts every bit as much as I love the sport they supposedly represent. I’ve never quite understood how fighting, a culture based on discipline and singular focus, came to inspire such aesthetic disorder and random skull/dragon/axe/chain placement. And yet...it thr…

Will PBS Deliver the Death Blow to the NFL?

League of Denial, the new documentary produced by PBS’s Frontline, doesn't reveal much that is totally new about how football damages brains, but it's still shocking to see how much the NFL has concealed about its concussion crisis.

James "The Colossus" Thompson Takes on the Banks, the Bookies, and Alistair Overeem

The giant of English MMA, more game than great, finds himself cornered by the banks and the bookies. Naturally, he accepts a proposal to fight Alistair Overeem—one of the best heavyweights in the MMA, and one of the deadliest strikers in the world.

Hi Shredability

Carissa Moore

We met Carissa Moore at the ass crack of dawn to go surfing and make some sandwiches, but she forced us to come to her trainer's house and work out before feeding us.

Skate World

Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson has made some big moves lately. He has joined the "I Quit Girl" club and formed his own company, 3-D. In the past couple of years he has also moved from San Francisco to New York, and he seems to be entering another level in his skateboard career.

Meet the Jon Jones Who Keeps Getting Nasty Tweets Meant for the Other Jon Jones

Last year, Jon Jones refused to fight Chael Sonnen, forcing the UFC to cancel a fight for the first time since 2001. Immediately the negative messages started flooding into the @JonJones Twitter account. The problem was that Jon Jones the UFC fighter didn’t own the @JonJones Twit…

Nick "The Tooth" Takes on America's Meritocracy Myth

Nick "The Tooth" talks about Jon Jones, genetics, Occupy Wall Street, the Koch Brothers, private prisons, Floyd Mayweather, Jimmy "The Greek," and food stamps.

Proposal for Miss Nancy Kerrigan

The match will consist of three, "3 minute" rounds of mud wrestling or jello and whip cream between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. The match will be judged by three independent judges approved by both participants.

The 2013 AFL Grand Final – an Appeal to the Resistance

If you think you're too smart for football, you're probably not.