Archive for 'Action Sports'
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Our friends at Demon Factory have just done a bio page for skateboarding legend Tony Alva. Alva was one of the real pioneers of the sport and known as a guy who’d never back down from a fight. Who knows? Had he come around a few years later he might have gotten [...]
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Here’s a helpful video explaining the basics of roller derby:
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Via the indispensable Michael David Smith, and more specifically MDS’ Twitter stream:
The hardest working man in sports journalism, Michael David Smith not only covers MMA, boxing and the NFL among other sports better than anyone in the business but is apparently not missing anything on the bullfight beat either. As we’ve noted before, if [...]
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
There’s nothing more inspiring than websites that look to provide a service to the general public with no thought of getting anything in return. Our friends at Demon Factory have spared no effort and expense to keep the coastal public up-to-date with the latest in ghastly shark attacks. They’ve got it all–an interactive [...]
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Here’s a CNBC report about the UFC and their valuation. Dana White suggests that ‘business is up’ 20% over last year–whether or not that’s the case is sort of hard to determine since they’re a privately held company and all. Here’s the best part–Dana talks about why MMA is booming while other sports [...]
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Chuck Liddell and Dana White were in attendance at Sunday’s NASCAR Aarons 499 in Talladega, Alabama. Here’s some Dana video blog footage of the proceedings. Props to Dana for not getting pissed off and ‘cutting a promo’ on NASCAR fans, the state of Alabama, etc.
Just noticed the still on ‘part 1′. It’s a [...]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
And while we’re at it…here’s the opening of the Five-O series finale entitled ‘Woe to Wo Fat’. Check out Jack Lord in the gray hair and beard disguise….
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Once upon a time Hawaii was cool and had plenty of badasses living there. Now they’ve got B.J. Penn. No one in the history of Hawaii with the possible exception of Duke Kahanamoku was cooler and a bigger badass than Jack Lord. Here’s the opening of the show that made cops cool [...]
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
There are ‘highlight reel’ goals and then there’s the goal that Washington Capitals’ superstar Alex Ovechkin scored against the New York Rangers last night. He’s at the top of the screen in this video and makes a couple of top flight NHL defensemen look like rec league scrubs:
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Here’s a video of the remaining members of the ‘TapouT’ crew talking about the MMA clothing company and the death of co-founder Charles ‘Mask’ Lewis. One of the comments on the YouTube page suggests that “they pretty much dont give a f*ck bout Mask’s death.” I’ll let you draw your own opinion–on one [...]
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