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March 12, 2021 David Rowe points out Biden’s success in forcing through his stimulus with the help of a successful vaccine rollout.   As noted in his marginal tip-of-the-hat, it’s a take on W.A. Rogers’ cartoon about Roosevelt, which leaves me wondering if Rowe thinks it’s all such a good thing after all, since the original Big Stick cartoon was about TR’s gunboat diplomacy, with which he assisted Panama in becoming independent from Colombia in order to ram through the US-contr...

After arguably the most bizarre title change in UFC history, newly crowned UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling gave his response to the MMA community on his podcast “The Weekly Scraps” following his DQ victory over Petr Yan at UFC 259. While Yan clearly delivered an illegal knee to Sterling, who by definition was a grounded fighter, many MMA fans, commentators, and fighters criticized Sterling for embellishing his reaction to the knee. Sterling addressed whether or not he felt like ...

Islam Makhachev wants to help Tony Ferguson retire March 9, 2021 After Islam Makhachev’s dominant performance that ended in a third-round submission victory over Drew Dober at UFC 259 via arm-triangle choke, the Dagestani lightweight pondered what could be next. Makhachev is the training partner and protege of UFC lightweight champion and all-time great Khabib Nurmagomedov. In a perfect world, Makhachev would like to face an elusive rival of his close friend. “My dream fight is Tony [Fergus...

Monster Energy responds to former two-time UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz calling out one of its executives following UFC 259.

UFC president Dana White responded to Dominick Cruz's callout of Hans Molenkamp, a Monster Energy executive, following his victory at UFC 259.

UFC president Dana White weighs in on what's next for middleweight champ Israel Adesanya following his failed attempt to capture the light heavyweight title.

Dana White addressed the UFC 259 fights, ripped on the judges for their scoring, said what could be next for all of the championship bout winners, and more.

Saturday’s championship heavy fight card is set now that the UFC 259 weigh-in results are official. All three title fights got the green light on Friday with all six athletes in the championship bouts stepping on the scale within the first 25 minutes of the two-hour weigh-in window. While UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz weighed in at 205 pounds on the nose, the top end of the limit, his opponent took a remarkedly different approach. When most fighters get as big as possible and ...

Despite the award, Cruz later said, “I’m not gonna lie. I’m scared of USADA.” Cruz is slated to fight Casey Kenney on the UFC 259 prelims on Saturday in Las Vegas.

Casey Kenney (16-2-1) will look to take another step forward in his career when he faces Dominick Cruz (22-3) in a preliminary 135-pound bout at UFC 259.