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If my 4 readers + my mom are interested in hearing my voice, head on over to Eklund’s Hockey Buzzcast.
(EPISODE360 – LIVE FROM THE TWEETUP at the WINTER CLASSIC)
We co-hosted a podcast live from the NHL Winter Classic Tweetup on January 1, 2010 and it was really fun. I hope you enjoy the first of [...]

Tonight, the remaining healthy and uninjured fighters in UFC go head to head in UFC 108: Evans vs Silva. The ridiculous number of injuries and fighters being forced to withdraw left this fight card a little hollow, but as we saw in UFC 107, replacement fighters can put on one heck of a show. Here’s [...]

Submissions!! Blood! Bad blood! Rear-naked chokes! UFC 107 was easily one of the best fight cards of 2009. It’s right up there with UFC 100 featuring Georges St-Pierre and Brock Lesnar. A quick review of what went down this past December 12, 2009. As always, I posted my predictions before the fights, and here they [...]

As if there weren’t enough reasons to love Georges St-Pierre, he has gone ahead and won for the second year in a row Sportsnet’s Canadian Athlete of The Year award, beating out Sydney Crosby yet again, who was the winner two years ago in 2007. The year 2008 marked the first time in Sportsnet history [...]

NO SERIOUSLY. Why does he like to taunt us with his awesomeness? And by “us” I of course mean all us UFC fans who suffered horrendously painful blueballs because of the whole Will-Fedor-Sign-With-UFC thing that came to a screeching halt when The Last Emperor signed with stupid Strikeforce. Ok, I take that back. It didn’t [...]

The alternate name to this blog entry was: “The UFC That Was As Overblown And Controversial As The Montreal Goaltending Controversy Except It’s Not Goaltending, It’s Fighters, And It’s Not Really The Same Thing At All Except That It’s Current And Has Two Number Ones But One Who Everyone Thinks Should Be The Real Number [...]

UFC 104 is finally almost here. I haven’t been this excited for a fight card since UFC 100 where GSP defended his welterweight title and Lesnar flipped his fans the finger was a douche defended his heavyweight title as well.
UFC 104 airs this Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 10pm EST on PPV.
A few predictions:
Light heavyweight championship bout
Mauricio [...]