I recently had the chance to get my hands on a copy of Stumbling on Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports. It does for the rest of sports what Moneyball did for baseball. The authors, David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt, take on the decision-making process [...]
Kimbo losing? No big deal. He only has six professional fights under his belt. Kimbo losing because of the training he’s getting? That’s what we call a big problem. I know, American Top Team is one of the best places to train for mixed martial arts. I get that. But they have really dropped the [...]
As I reported yesterday, Houston Texans LB Brian Cushing could lose his Defensive Rookie of the Year award for testing positive for the performance enhancing drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. This isn’t even a steroid it’s a female fertility drug, but is commonly used when coming off of a steroid cycle to get your [...]
I was watching some past fights, brushing up on my MMA knowledge, and I came across Randy Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga. Quite the matchup. A young up-and-comer versus a legend for the heavyweight championship belt. Most all people had Gonzaga favored, but Randy came out and dominated that fight and made Gabriel bleed all over [...]
According to multiple reports, LeBron has won the Most Valuable Player award for the second straight year. James, who averaged 29.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 8.6 assists this season, will receive the trophy Sunday at the University of Akron. The presentation by commissioner David Stern will come in front of Cleveland’s fans. In honor of [...]
“When you watch MTV, you can tell all the musicians want to be athletes, and when you watch ESPN, you can tell all the athletes want to rap,” Shaquille O’Neal said. “Remember, a lot of us came from the same place.” After hearing Eminem’s recent Ben Roethlisberger reference in his freestyle rap, I started thinking [...]
The WEC just put on a stellar event, but you wouldn’t know it. There was nothing anywhere that had the letters “W”, “E”, or “C” on it. The UFC’s golden hand was all over it, from the production to the promotion to the commentators to the ring announcer.The event itself was renamed “Aldo vs. Faber”, [...]
You asked for them, now here they are… After watching tons of tape and analzying every fighter’s skill level, this is what I’ve come up with. Brace yourself for the inaugural SportsNickel.com Top Ten MMA Lightweights. Would a top five have made more sense because of the nickel? Absolutely. But now we can say we’re [...]
