One week from saturday, its one of the biggest UFC fights in MMA history.  Randy Couture, UFC champion, hasn't fought in a year and a half, is 44 years old, and small for a heavyweight.  But he's been winning titles all his career, he's kept himself injury free, and the man j...

I’m short on time this week, so there’s no full preview for this card, but I wanted to give my picks since it’s become a tradition for me to fail miserably while picking winners on these shows. ANDERSON SILVA VS. PATRICK COTE: Honestly, this is going to be a slaughter. I’ll u...

I happily kept the faith in the Stanley Cup Finals and was rewarded with quality last night. Wonderful stuff, as the Penguins give us hope for the future of exciting hockey…for at least a few days… Game 3 from Scott Burnside … There were two prevailing themes that emerged from the first two ga...

This is one of the deepest fight cards in recent memory, with a superb main event and several fights featuring guys making bids for later title shots. It’s so deep, in fact, that there are several big name fighters being relegated to prelim status: Andrei Arlovski, Diego Sanchez and Josh Kosch...

World Trade Organization of the United States of America The World Trade Oganization began life on 1 January 1995, but its trading system is half a century older. Since 1948, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) had provided the rules for the system. [from WTO website] "Essentially, the...

Christmas in Phuket Caught the Air Asia flight from BKK to Phuket on Christmas morning. Can’t really recommend Air Asia though. I had a 10:50am flight that took off sometime around 12:30. I got the impression that they consolidated two flights as some people had been waiting a long time for th...

Tilting the testosterone In December of 2004, G-Rob and I survived one long night on a Las Vegas diet of car bombs and cover stories. During one conversation that still haunts me to this day, I was a surgeon, G-Rob was a minor league pitcher, and the third member of the mind-meeting was a...buckaroo...