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 [...]

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 [...]

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….

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]

THE SAVAGE SCIENCE was saddened to hear of the death of Freestyle Motocross Rider Jeremy Lusk, who died last night after crashing on a backflip attempt in Costa Rica a couple of days ago. Lusk was sponsored by Metal Mulisha who also sponsors a number of MMA fighters (including Clay Guida). Freestyle Motocross [...]

I’m the luckiest guy in the world–I’m healthy, have a great family, friends, colleagues, etc. I have two great dogs who are also healthy and just great companions. I get to report and write about fight sports for a living. Plus my gadget degeneracy notwithstanding, I’m not much of a materialist. [...]

Opening day video at Utah’s Snowbird Resort with completely untracked powder after the jump…:

The ‘gray lady’ straps on a helmet and some torn fishnets with a big profile of roller derby 2.0:
WOMEN’S roller derby is undoubtedly having a moment in New Jersey; at least seven leagues, with more than a dozen teams, have sprouted statewide since 2005. (Some leagues have only a single team.) But Mickey Taylor, a [...]