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Asian MMA Update: ONE FC Announces First Three Shows for 2012, URCC 20 and Road FC 5 Fight Card Additions
There's a bunch of news coming out of the Asian MMA scene lately, so let's get right to it: ONE Fighting Championship had their debut event last September, a few months later, and the promotion breaks their silence and announced the official dates for their next three shows for 2012. It's going to...
Road FC 3 Fight Video: Denis Kang vs. Seung Bae Whi
Here's footage from the second round of the Road FC 3 main event, where Denis Kang took on Seung Bae Whi in an entertaining all-out brawl. The event was held yesterday on the Grand Hilton Seoul Convention Centre, in South Korea. The video is from Nightmare of Battle, where in they also mention...
Colorado Rapids to play in the Pan Pacific Championship-esque Hawaii Invitational
The Pan-Pacific Championship - a relatively new football tournament that has featured teams from North America, Japan, Australia, China and Korea - is coming back to the footballing world in 2012 after a few years break, and it will feature the defending MLS Champions the Colorado Rapids as their...
WNBA Addresses Mercury Pre-season Game In Korea
Early this week there was a report in The Korean Times that said a deal would soon be in place that sent the Championship Phoenix Mercury to Korea to play an exhibition game. Here's the report: WKBL Champion Could Face WNBA's Phoenix Mercury"The talks have reached about 50 percent complete and we...
Skate Canada: I laughed and I cried
I laughed and I laughed and I laughed Because the judging...kind of a joke, right? Home field advantage has not been this pronounced in recent memory. It was most evident in the program components scores. *I should also note that there was some other questionable judging, like the dinging of Mirai...
Cancer.Net Skate America Results: Ladies Short Program
Well, I have upgraded my "like" of Yu-Na Kim's 007 short program to "love and kind of want to marry." Wow, another record-breaking performance for Korea's skating queen. But there were other competitors at Skate America tonight too! Really, there were! Rachael Flatt's performance of her Sing...
TEB Results: Ladies Short Program
Well, looks like once again, Yu-na Kim has built up a MASSIVE lead heading into a free skate. Cannot wait to see her program. Kim is trailed by MORE THAN 16 POINTS by Japan's Yukari Nakano. Placements 2 through 5 are all extremely close together, but the big news there may be USA's Alexe Gilles...
Jennifer Kirk's Predictions
Wow, it still feels so early, but Jennifer Kirk has posted some predictions for the upcoming Grand Prix season on her True/Slant blog. Some of her interesting predictions: -Sasha Cohen will have to land a triple/triple in order to win a Grand Prix. Considering she is going up against Korea's...
Abbott is Athlete of the Week
USA's Jeremy Abbott, fresh off of his Grand Prix Final victory, has been named "Athlete of the Week" by USA Today. But when you win the Grand Prix Finals, as Jeremy Abbott did over the weekend, the Athlete of the Week award is yours, hands down. Abbott, a 23-year-old Colorado native, won the Cup...
Grand Prix Recap: Ladies
So glad that Mao Asada won this competition, she definitely deserved it. But I feel that it was entirely too close to be comfortable with. She only won by a bit more than two points, despite the fact that Yu-Na Kim fell in the short, fell in the free and popped a lutz in the free. The only major...
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