There is no mixed martial arts fight I would enjoy seeing more in 2008 than Randy Couture vs. Fedor Emelianenko . Couture and Emelianenko are generally recognized as the two best heavyweights in the world, and they've both basically run out of attractive opponents. They're also the two most popular MMA fighters who aren't currently in the UFC stable, as Couture resigned from UFC last year ...

ESPN's Marc Stein writes : Jason Kidd is officially a Dallas Maverick. "It's done," Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told ESPN.com via e-mail. "J-Kidd is a Mav." Ordinarily, this is where we would offer some analysis. But this one has been under the microscope for more than a week already. NBA fans have examined it every which way. So let's just enjoy a nice little sigh of relief -- the ...

ESPN's Marc Stein writes : Jason Kidd is officially a Dallas Maverick. "It's done," Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told ESPN.com via e-mail. "J-Kidd is a Mav." Ordinarily, this is where we would offer some analysis. But this one has been under the microscope for more than a week already. NBA fans have examined it every which way. So let's just enjoy a nice little sigh of relief -- the ...

By Dave Meltzer/Yahoo! Sports (Reprinted from Yahoo! Sports on MMAjunkie.com with permission) The likely promoter of a potential Randy Couture vs. Fedor Emelianenko match was revealed last week when Mark Cuban’s HDNet Fights filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Dallas against Zuffa LLC, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The suit is an attempt to get a ...

Things from All-Star Weekend that, for whatever reason, didn't get a post of their own ... • Morris Almond didn’t win the D-League's inaugural H-O-R-S-E competition, but he sure made things interesting. In the first round, Idaho center Lance Allred faced off against Fort Wayne’s Jeremy Richardson , and the craziest shot they took was probably a 15-footer with their legs ...

Dirk is trippin’ - and slippin’ And Nowitzki is pissed off at Devean George. So pissed off that he pulled out his “Euro-card” on George: “He’s looking out for himself a little bit,” Nowitzki said. “In a way, we play a team sport but a lot of it is about individuals. It’s Dirk versus Kobe, not L.A. versus Dallas. It’s not ...

I bet you didn’t see this one coming, Mark Cuban owner of HDNet and the Dallas Mavericks basket ball team has filed suit against UFC owners, Zuffa LLC. According to Adam Swift , Cuban is trying to get the court to make a ruling on when Randy Couture’s contract ends with Zuffa. With the mixed martial arts industry focused on the Zuffa v. Couture proceedings scheduled ...

Mark Cuban, the owner of the upstart HDNet Fights organization and MMA-centric HDNet cable station, has filed suit against the UFC to get a declaratory judgment concerning the contractual status of Randy Couture. The report comes from Adam Swift of Sherdog.com . Couture, the UFC’s heavyweight champion, resigned from the organization this past October citing a number of issues, ...

As if the situation between Randy Couture and the UFC couldn’t get any messier it just did. Mark Cuban and HDNet Fights filed a lawsuit against Zuffa and the UFC on Wednesday in a Dallas district court regarding the contract status of Randy Couture, according to Sherdog.com . The lawsuit seeks “declaratory relief — a ruling on when Couture’s promotional contract ...

The sport of MMA is almost as exciting outside the cage these days as the events that take place inside. In an interesting turn of events, Adam Swift is reporting on Sherdog that Mark Cuban has filed suit against Zuffa, the group that owns the UFC. With the mixed martial arts industry focused on the Zuffa v. Couture proceedings scheduled to begin with a preliminary hearing March 4 in Las ...

I am not one to proffer advice to those who make what I do in an hour in the span of one sentence, but you need to look at the obstinance of Devean George as a blessing. Jason Kidd would be as much of an albatross as Shaquille O’Neal. Look at how Gary Payton fell off the cliff? That’s Jason Kidd’s future. He will be useless by 2009-2010. He will force the rebuilding ...

My favorite aspect of the Devean George's monster block last night (of the proposed Jason Kidd trade), besides picturing George in Mark Cuban's office acting like he just swatted a shot ("Aaah, mo-fo!  Get that weak sh*t OUT of here!  RETURN TO SENDER!  Come hard or don't come at all...")?  That there is a possibility Keith Van Horn might get a contract out of this , ...

Whenever the Spurs and Mavs walk into Staples from now on, the in-house DJ should play Mobb Deep’s “ Shook Ones “. © Marcel Mutoni for SLAM Online , 2008. | Permalink | 2 comments Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under NBA , Other News .