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A 93 kilogram contest between Vitor Belfort and Dan Henderson has reportedly been added to PRIDE’s October 21st Las Vegas card.
Dream Stage Entertainment has not announced the reported bout yet, but it is likely that the bout, along with perhaps the rest of the card for their THE REAL DEAL card will be announced very shortly. Belfort last stepped into the PRIDE ring on July 1st at the second round of the Openweight Grand Prix, where he quickly knocked out Pancrase veteran Yoshiki Takahashi just thirty six seconds into round one.
Henderson last competed at the August 26th installment of the Bushido series, where he was defeated by Kazuo Misaki by unanimous decision. Now it appears that PRIDE’s 83 kilogram divisional champion will step up to 93 kilograms, where has has spent the majority of his PRIDE tenure, to face Belfort.
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
It’s hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner (no, not that corner; that’s curling). We don’t know about you, but we’ve barely had time to miss Ron Artest and Mark Cuban before they’re back again. And that’s a good thing. So let us celebrate with five tiny tidbits on each team, today continuing with the Pacific Division and that phenomenon known as the Phoenix Suns. We’ll rip through the rest of the Pacific D. next week, so do us a favor and send us your tips on those teams via tips@deadspin.com.
• 1. I’m Pissed Now, Joboo. Brazilian Leandro Barbosa, who was born in São Paulo, is known as Leandrinho (”Little Leandro”) or, “The Brazilian Blur.” He is completely normal, except for his habit of eating raw cow’s liver with beans every day, which he feels “is where I get my talent.” He says it is hard to do, but without it, he feels weak.
• 2. The Round Mound Of Renown. It is said that Charles Barkley “put Phoenix on the map” when he was traded to the Suns by the 76ers for Jeff Hornacek, Andrew Lang and Tim Perry in 1992. After playing two years for Auburn, Barkley tried out for the 1984 Olympic team, where coach Bobby Knight ordered him to report for tryouts at 260 pounds or less. Barkley reported at exactly 292 pounds, and Knight eventually cut him. But not before a defensive breakthrough: During one scrimmage, Barkley took a charge. Knight stopped practice, walked onto the court with a piece of chalk and immortalized the spot by writing on the floor, “this is where Charles Barkley took his first charge.”
• 3. For Lucky Best Wash, Use Mr. Sparkle. Shawn Marion has a tattoo of his nickname, “The Matrix,” on his leg, written in Japanese. However, when translated into English, the tattoo actually reads “demon bird moth balls.”
• 4. With A Song In His Heart. Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash is, for some reason, an inspiration for musicians everywhere. In Nelly Furtado’s 2006 single “Promiscuous,” she asks, “Is that the truth or are you talkin’ trash, / Is your game MVP like Steve Nash?” Furtado, like Nash, grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Then there is rapper Cam’ron, who makes a reference to Nash in the song “Get ‘em Daddy” featuring Hell Rell when he says “I got weed hash, When I breeze past, Breathe fast, Eat ass, On point like Steve Nash”.
• 5. A Real Dark Horse. Amare Stoudemire, whom Charles Barkley refers to as ‘Hellboy’ on TNT’s Inside the NBA, undoubtedly holds the NBA record for most high schools attended. He went to six high schools.
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
Filed under: Culture, Fighting, Sports, Competitive Gaming, Rhythm, Business
McDonald’s — in what must have been pitched in a meeting full of McSynergy — is sponsoring a series of “midnight” gaming tournaments in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. McDonald’s has recently tried to attract gamers through DS Wi-Fi, Happy-Meal giveaways, and an ad campaign that looked a little too familiar to some. Of all of these things, we give McDonalds the most credit for hosting these game nights, speaking to gamers directly through controllers.
Players can register online now to play each Saturday night in Tekken 5, Guitar Hero, and NCAA Football ‘07. The weekly tournament begins tomorrow and runs through mid-November, with single-elimination play between 9:00PM and 4:00AM. Weekly winners will net McPrizes totaling a few hundred dollars, including Best Buy and McDonald’s gift certificates. They will also compete in the November 18 championship, where three players will win a thousand-dollar Best Buy gift certificate, Xbox 360, and more.
Dallas and Ft. Worth gamers, represent Joystiq, and tell us how it goes. Just consider bringing gloves and/or bleach; those guitar controllers are going to be pretty McGreasy by the end.
[Via: Adrants]
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Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
Filed under: Culture, Fighting, Sports, Competitive Gaming, Rhythm, Business
McDonald’s — in what must have been pitched in a meeting full of McSynergy — is sponsoring a series of “midnight” gaming tournaments in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. McDonald’s has recently tried to attract gamers through DS Wi-Fi, Happy-Meal giveaways, and an ad campaign that looked a little too familiar to some. Of all of these things, we give McDonalds the most credit for hosting these game nights, speaking to gamers directly through controllers.
Players can register online now to play each Saturday night in Tekken 5, Guitar Hero, and NCAA Football ‘07. The weekly tournament begins tomorrow and runs through mid-November, with single-elimination play between 9:00PM and 4:00AM. Weekly winners will net McPrizes totaling a few hundred dollars, including Best Buy and McDonald’s gift certificates. They will also compete in the November 18 championship, where three players will win a thousand-dollar Best Buy gift certificate, Xbox 360, and more.
Dallas and Ft. Worth gamers, represent Joystiq, and tell us how it goes. Just consider bringing gloves and/or bleach; those guitar controllers are going to be pretty McGreasy by the end.
[Via: Adrants]
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Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
While browsing SacTown Royalty, we were struck by the title of this post:
New Arena = Officially Dead
No, not because of the startling proficiency with which TZ combined English and Math, but by the words themselves.
The linkage goes through to an article in the Sacramento Bee about the city’s push for a new arena for the Kings. Short version - it’s up for ballot in Nov, it’s some kind of tax, the Maloofs (who own the Kings) aren’t really behind it, and the city looks like they’re not going to pass it.
Thing is - it hasn’t been voted on yet. There’s still hope.
“This has never been about just basketball and the Maloofs,” [person with funny last name] Mahood said Thursday after the press event. “We hope the Kings will come along. But we believe that once people hear and understand the economic impact of this, they will vote for it.”
“This is pitched to us as a way to keep the Kings in town, but the Kings can’t even agree that it’s what they want,” [other funny last name person] Magavern said. “It’s a classic David-and-Goliath struggle. Their side has millions of dollars in developer money. Our side has the truth: This is a bad deal that only benefits billionaire businessmen.”
So what if it is?
Don’t you want your basketball team to stick around? Wouldn’t you pay an extra half cent every time you buy a loaf of bread to keep the Kings in Sacramento? Hell, we’re a Cleveland fan living in Los Angeles, and we’d pay the half cent bread tax to keep the team in Northern California.
Maybe that’s the key - just get people from other cities to pay the tax on their bread, and maybe extend it to bagels and muffins, too. You’d have to exclude places like Starbucks, because their muffins cost too much anyway. (Beside the fact they’re not that good for you.)
So it’s settled then - everyone in America except people in Sacramento will pay an extra half cent for bread for ten days, and then the Kings get a new arena. See how easy it is when you put us in charge?
Collect the money on the eleventh day, and then days 12-24 are spent building the arena. On the 25th day all the concession stand people get ready, then give the team a week to practice inside.
The whole thing can be ready for THIS SEASON.
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
Earlier this week, we heard rumors of a fan and his girlfriend / wife / mistress / crossdresser, while in the top level of the mostly empty RFK Stadium, uh, enjoying themselves in a way that you can’t exactly enjoy yourself in the crowded Yankee Stadium bleachers. We weren’t going to run anything about the rumors, because, jeez, what fun is it to run rumors of fellatio-related activities if you don’t have pictures?
Well, now we have a picture.
It’s above there, and there’s another larger picture — perfect for desktop backgrounds! — after the jump. But yeah: We suppose there are clear advantages to going to a stadium with hardly anyone in it, and this is, definitively, one of them.
We don’t even feel the need for another joke here. We figure you can probably take care of that without our help.
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
With the news that the guys who wrote Game of Shadows (the Barry Bonds book) are going to jail for not revealing sources, we can’t help but feel a bit distraught.
Perhaps even frightened, scared, or “in a state of discomfort”.
You see, as we alluded to earlier this week, we’ve embarked on a trip down the dangerous path of dark journalism, as well.
Namely, RajaBell.com. What’s going on with it? Why the mysterious resetting countdown clock? When will it be unveiled? Why is Raja glowing on this placeholder page? Has he consumed the orange roundie?
This has been going on since April, for Zeus’s sake! No more, we say. This is the technical contact for the site:
Rosa, Anthony
Global Sports & Entertainment Agency
313 State St., Suite 713
Perth Amboy, New Jersey 08861
732/324-0077 ext 110
arosa@gspn.net
Go now, our legion of brave warriors! Bombard this man with your Raja Bell DOT COM queries! We’d suggest something along the lines of the following:
Hey Tony,
Are you in the mafia? I love Raja Bell! When’s his website launch, DUDE!? CHOO-CHOO!!!!
Your friend,
(insert your name here)
Feel free to indentify yourself as working for YAYsports! as an investigative reporter and/or private eye. No wait - say you’re a private eye - that’s way better.
He can ignore our emails, he can blow off our phone calls, he can dodge us until we give up - but he can’t stop an army. We have a right to know when we’ll see the personal musings and photographs of Choo-Choo Bell, damn it.
You hear that, Tony? We’re going to keep coming at you until you either give us a date, a reason, or we get bored.
Continue Reading September 22nd, 2006
When we go through our Friday selection of various weekend previews, we hit the usual suspects (King, Simmons, Zimmerman, O.J.) and then always make sure to drop in on The Ex-Burgher’s Tecmo Bowl previews. Essentially, he uses the Tecmo Bowl prototype (with updated rosters!) from the Tecmo Super Bowl Repository and downloads the newest version.
And then he coaches as one team against the other. (We do a variation on this with Madden 2007, except we let the computer play itself, which means we spend part of our day watching fake video game football players play against other fake video game football players.) The results are always entertaining, particularly because we now know what a Tecmo Bowl version of Fred Smoot looks like. Scary.
Right now, the Tecmo theme song is going through your head. Nothing to be ashamed of.
The Ex-Burgher’s Tecmo Bowl Week 3 Preview [The Ex-Burgher]
Tecmo Super Bowl Repository [Knobbe.org]
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