Featured, Sports, UFC • May 14th, 2012

No Comments • By Aric Mitchell

MMA Top 10: The Featherweights

Since we’re looking at Strikeforce for predictions this week—Heavyweight Grand Prix final, anyone?—we won’t be predicting the UFC on Fuel show Tuesday night. After all, there is only one of me. But in honor of the Featherweight main event,…
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Featured, Sports, UFC • May 3rd, 2012

No Comments • By Aric Mitchell

MMA Top 10: The Lightweights

With UFC on Fox 3 just around the corner—and a main event of Nate Diaz vs. Jim Miller—The Rugged wanted to take the opportunity to look at the state of the lightweight division. Introducing this week’s edition of MMA…
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Entertainment, Featured, Health & Fitness, Sports • April 18th, 2012

No Comments • By Mike Arone

Hanging with Graeme McDowell and Guinness Black Lager

Ask any guy on the planet what their ideal day would be and I am willing to bet at least 9 out of 10 dudes would say: “Ice cold beer and lessons from a golf pro.” Well, just so…
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Featured, Sports • April 13th, 2012

No Comments • By Chad Howse

Combinations

Your jab is your gauge On any combination – especially the double jab + cross – the jabs are used as a gauge for distance, but also as a decoy. You can throw the same combination with a triple jab…
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Featured, Sports • April 10th, 2012

No Comments • By Aric Mitchell

5 Professional Athletes Who Defied Age

So you think you’re getting too old to be physically viable. You think that you can sit there in front of your television eating Ding-Dongs and swilling down 16-ounce glasses of milk, all the while using the excuse that you…
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Featured, Sports • April 9th, 2012

No Comments • By Aric Mitchell

The Moral Obligation of a College Coach

The catalyst for this piece is the recent scandal involving—surprise, surprise—Arkansas Razorback Head Football Coach Bobby Petrino. Petrino is no stranger to dirty dealings—see Pat Forde’s excellent rundown of the coach’s previous transgressions here—but this is the first time…
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Entertainment, Featured, Sports • April 5th, 2012

No Comments • By Kevin C. Sullivan

Wrestling Is Fake – 4/4/2012 – The YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! Edition

Well, Wrestlemania XXVIII has come and got, the follow-up Raw that is traditionally more entertaining that the PPV before it has aired, and Friday night’s episode of Smackdown! has been taped. Time for a little Wrestling Is Fake to…
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Featured, Sports • April 4th, 2012

No Comments • By Chad Howse

Boxing Punches: the Jab and the Cross

Tips Transferring your weight We’ll talk about this a lot. But a punch isn’t simply the extending of one’s arm. Take the jab for example… The punch starts on your back foot. The transfer of weight from the back…
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