Introducing Olive
This is Olive. She’s deeply interested in the dangle-y wrist strap on my camera. She would like to inspect it more carefully, with her tiny sharp teeth. Olive came home with me a couple of days ago, much to the irritation of Henry, our giant orange tabby. Henry weighs 17 pounds, is not fat, and he is emphatically not a lap kitty. He owns Garner, and dispenses cranky r

Melissa Hernandez: Her Best to the Last Bell
Many of the top pro boxing women know each other; a fact that becomes more and more evident to me when I hear my trainer Bonnie “Queen B” Mann chatting aim

Laila Ali to Fight in Dubai
Eric Rafiq, CEO of the Xtreme Kombat League (XKL) is looking for sponsors to help bring legendary boxing champion Laila Ali to the United Arab Emirates for a fight in Dubai for 2010. Daughter of boxing great Mohammad Ali, Laila Ali has a record of 24-0 with a staggering 21 knockouts, and she holds three world titles. She has not been in the ring since the birth of her son in August 2008. Previous efforts to bring Laila to the UAE have failed due to lack of sponsorship. Rafiq commented, “Ali’s people said yes. Now we need to

Female Grandmasters and MMA Fighters: Dana White Channels Pat Robertson
Skip straight to 4:25 on this video to hear the shocking part. Dana White is lighting up a tiny bit of press (why not a helluva lot more??) with his recent answer to the question: “Do you think you’ll do a female season of Ultimate Fighter?” “Here’s the thing,” Dana says, and we all wait expectantly. “The problem is there’s not enough good girls to fight in the division, okay?” At this point I have a WTF kind of look on my face. It’s easy to imagine if you try. “It’s probably gonna be a while before that happens,” he says, and then he drops an

Cris Cyborg Santos vs Marloes Coenen: January 2010
This week Strikeforce finally announced the title bout women’s MMA fans have been waiting for: champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos (8-1) will follow up on her August 2009 TKO of Gina Carano with a match on January 30, 2010,