Tag Archive | "UFC"

$5 Million in 140 Characters

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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$5 Million in 140 Characters

Shaquille O'Neal, Tony Hawk, and other professional athletes are finding that Twitter is a cash register filled with sponsors. All they need to do is tell their fans, in 140 characters or less, to buy Oreos, pick up their Madden video game, or go to a nightclub.

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Hollywood Enters the Cage

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Hollywood Enters the Cage

Warrior is the most punishingly realistic movie about mixed martial arts ever made. And the actors have the scars to prove it.

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Your Perfect Weekend October January 1-3

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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Your Perfect Weekend October January 1-3

Ring in the new year with the latest and greatest road hogs at the Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in Michigan, or enter the cold fray of Wisconsin's Ice Wars on your snowmobile.

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Q&A with Boxing Trainer Freddie Roach

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Q&A with Boxing Trainer Freddie Roach

Boxing trainer Freddie Roach takes us inside his and fighter Manny Pacquiao's strategy for Saturday's WBO welterweight championship and explains why his Parkinson’s is no obstacle as a trainer.

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Evan Tanner’s Final Test

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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Evan Tanner’s Final Test

Last fall the former UFC champ rode his motorcycle into the California desert, looking to pit himself against nature in the harshest of conditions. He saw it as testing his limits. But it was the culmination of a lifetime of battling demons.

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The New Gladiators

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Ruthless, primal, barely legal, mixed martial arts has become a breakthrough phenomenon thanks to the UFC. But what kind of man does this for a living? A look inside America’s favorite combat sport. By Daniel Duane It doesn’t hurt, getting punched in the face. Not like you’d think. It might sting a little when your face [...]

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