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With all respect due Woody Hayes, Bob Knight or Russell Crowe; with a dubious appreciation of Mike Tyson, for taking a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear; or of Alec Baldwin, for taking a chunk out of his daughter’s rear end, I might have witnessed the ultimate meltdown at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring on Thursday night.
For a second there, I wondered what political office Brock Lesnar was about to accept …
Stigmas can be impossible to break. It’s a truth those involved with mixed martial arts know well, having spent years trying to overcome the barbaric tag often assigned the sport.
The prayer was about being strong in faith, about guiding them along this difficult path, about allowing the family to find peace, about helping others not to assign blame, about making their relationship with him stronger in such a sorrowful time. They asked God for support.
You can’t minimize the charges. Felony domestic battery by strangulation. Felony grand larceny. Misdemeanor coercion.
It was around 1:45 Saturday afternoon, or the 93rd minute World Cup time, when a native of the tiny West African nation of Ghana named Asamoah Gyan willed the soccer ball onto his left foot from between two U.S. defenders, then willed it into the back of Tim Howard’s net with a determination even more fierce.
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