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Combat Sports
With the former WWE champ Brock Lesnar headlining the year's biggest UFC pay-per-view on Friday, the combat sports world is revolving around pretend fighting this week. Here are some highlights:
- Brock's MMA career Part 1.
- Breaking down Lesnar vs Overeem.
- Brock's opponent, Alistair Overeem.
- And a look back at a lowlight from Brock's WWE career.
Basketball
- Could Atlanta be a dark horse in the Dwight Howard sweepstakes?
- How DeMarcus Cousins has improved his shot selection in his sophomore season thus far.
- Ways to watch TWolves losses with optimism.
College Sports
- California Golden Blogs is out for Texas Longhorns blood! Or...Churros.
- Burnt Orange Nation also looks at the Holiday Bowl and says the Horns playmakers are healthyish.
- Vanquish The Foe has welcomed an all new crew of contributors serving BYU's Cougar Nation.
- Team Speed Kills says Georgia wins the the newly released SEC conference schedule sweepstakes and wonders where Arkansas and A&M will play.
- Black Shoe Diaries rounds up their wishes and best guesses for the Penn State coaching search.
Baseball
- Over The Monster covers the Red Sox's acquisition of Andrew Bailey from the A's.
- Beyond The Boxscore says that we need some better arguments for keeping Edgar Martinez out of the Hall of Fame.
- Baseball Nation counts down the ten worst-hitting pitchers of all time.
- Viva El Birdos recalls the best games of the year for the 2011 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals.