The LobbyistMarc Ratner spent 21 years with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, including 14 as its executive director. In the mid-1990s, when MMA was …
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 2)
The EvolutionIn many ways, the biggest knockout punch in MMA history didn’t come from Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, or any other of …
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 1)
It’s a frigid February evening in New York City, and yet scores of fans have braved the cold weather to gather at the midtown …
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Former Minnesota Senator Dean Barkley weighs in on the viability of a third-party.
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Originally published at: Columbia News Service. (Archived here) Also published in the Berkshire Eagle – April 29, 2010. Country music has taught us how …
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“The Vertigo Tour” hits MSG. Here’s my review of the concert.
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I thought about getting a ring to commemorate my back-to-back fantasy football championships because of this article.
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“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is iconic. But Daniel B. Smith thinks it’s moronic. The pictures are nice, but the text is bland, How it …
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The extended version of my AMA article is up at The Columbia Journalist. However, it’s not exactly what I had written. As such, here’s …
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Guido Contini is a legendary and groundbreaking Italian director who has grand plans for an epic film about his beloved homeland. The only problem …
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BRONX, NEW YORK – It’s Saturday, October 3 and Modell’s Sporting Goods store is having its grand reopening in Bay Plaza in the Bronx. …
Pearl Jam brought its Backspacer Tour to Madison Square Garden on May 20. What did I think of the show?
Once upon a time, concept albums were hip. It was a long time ago, back when the shower curtain wasn’t the only piece of …
Elizabeth Taylor. Billy Graham. Fidel Castro. What do they have in common? In this context, they’re among the most popular picks in death pools.
From the Archives: In honor of my least favorite quarterback in the NFL, I thought I’d recycle this article I wrote for a sports …
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Can You Use it in a Sentence? Can You Give Me the Definition? Can You Spell it for Me?
For 9-year-old Shivani Angappan, “poinsettia” spelled v-i-c-t-o-r-y. Luckily for her, she didn’t actually spell it that way.