News and Links for October 7, 2008…

Seth Petruzelli was told by EliteEX promoters to stand and trade with Kimbo Slice, and hinted that he shouldn’t take him to the ground, according to mmamania.com. Nothing like a good, honest fight to determine the better fighter. I guess they assumed, like the rest of us, that Kimbo has no ground game and would get beaten if it went to the ground. Standing up, he lasted 14 seconds, so who’s to say where his real weakness is.

LSU’s genius defensive tackle Ricky Jean-Francois says that if LSU gets a clean shot at Heisman winner Tim Tebow, they’re planning on taking him out, even if that means injuring him. Nothing like a little good bulletin board material, which may later be used as evidence in the court of law. Football players are smart. ‘Speshly the SEC ones.

Ricky Hatton has new life with Floyd Mayweather, Sr. training him. Does this mean that there is now more than one Ricky Hatton? The article also has some good insight into Hatton’s split with former trainer Billy Graham.

Now that baseball season is over in most of the league’s cities, several teams are looking back and examining why they failed. For the New York Mets, Dan Rosenheck of the New York Times says it was too much counting on the stars and not enough quality free agent signings in the role player department. That, and an awful bullpen, top-heavy starting pitching, and no power from their corner outfielders. Starting the year with Willie Randolph in charge didn’t help either.

Across the country, Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic says that the Arizona Diamondbacks found ways to lose this year, as opposed to last year’s overachieving squad that found ways to win.

–News and Links Archive–

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