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Champions League Final Live-Blog
Published 5/21/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... our feeble attempt at a liveblog, where we’ll keep you posted on the game, and then toss up the PM roundup at halftime. When the second half starts, this post will pop back to the top. Hopefully, that makes sense. For non-soccer fans: waste your time at Cristiano Ronald’s “girlfriends” page. In other soccer news, we didn’t even notice teen phenom Jozy Altidore won’t play for the US against England. In MMA news, you gotta read this LeBatard profile of Kimbo Slice. Awesome. Onto the live blog.

ESPN Releases Kimbo Slice Feature
Published 5/22/2008 by John Chandler at MMA on Tap
... ESPN The Magazine’s anticipated cover story on EliteXC heavyweight sensation Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson hit newsstands nationwide on Wednesday and is now available for public viewing on at The Mag’s official website. (Cover picture ...

Kimbo Slice ESPN The Magazine cover in stores now
Published 5/22/2008 by Chewy at MMAdness
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Kimbo Slice ESPN The Magazine cover in stores now
Published 5/22/2008 by MMAmania at UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
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Kimbo Slice Featured on ESPN The Magazine
Published 5/22/2008 by CagE at MMA News, Results, UFC blog, Ultimate Fighter, Rumors, Video and Opinion
... EliteXC’s Kimbo Slice is the latest fighter to be featured on a high profile magazine. Slice graces the cover of this months ESPN The Magazine. Heres a quote from the article: “I still consider myself a baby at this game,” Kimbo says. “Those guys probably know how to run circles around me, but I can bang with the best. And I’m not a one-dimensional fighter anymore. I used to have just a hammer. But now I’ve got a hammer, a tape measure, a screwdriver, a glue gun. Now I’ve got some tools in the ...

ESPN Magazine Featuring Kimbo Slice on Newsstands Now
Published 5/22/2008 by Todd Yeakle at Red Sweat
... The article wraps up by talking about a possible rematch with the only person that ever defeated Slice in his street fight career, 33 year old Boston police officer Sean Gannon. Click here to read the entire article at ESPN.com. ...

Steelers Related Minutaie
Published 5/28/2008 by Blitzburgh at Behind the Steel Curtain: Front Page Posts
... head coach Mike Leach. If you're not familiar with Coach Leach, you need to be. He's the most interesting, innovative and refreshing coach in college football. Period. More current (and much shorter, but equally entertaining), follow-up reading on the man can be found here. For those less inclined to immerse yourself in a long article, why not just check out this pictorial 'essay' on the Top 50 Universities ranked by looks. A Dan Le Batard expose on rising MMA sensation Kimbo Slice. Got kids? I highly suggest The Number Devil: A ...

Good, Bad, and the Ugly on display for Elite XC's Saturday night primetime mixed martial arts debut on CBS
Published 6/1/2008 by PJ Swenson (noreply@blogger.com) at Sharkspage
... Lost in a lot of the pre-fight discussion is the sheer size matchup of the final main event bout between Kimbo Slice (6-foot-2, 235.5 pounds) and James Thompson (6-foot-5, 257 pounds). Kimbo has crossed over from amateur no-holds barred internet fights on youtube, to professional mixed martial arts headliner, to a level of stardom outside the cage that mirrors those of other entertainment and sports A-listers. Kimbo Slice became the second MMA competitor to grace the cover of ESPN the Magazine, and has been on a whirlwind promotional tour to pump up the ...

Brog: Apparently I Still Need To Work On My Image
Published 6/2/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . And … oh, never mind. I’m posting today from an insufferably-hot Miami. This is where the legend of Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson was born - thanks largely to the public relations efforts of MIAMI HERALD columnist ...

The Kimbo Slice Hype
Published 6/3/2008 at Soapbox Land
I ve become enamored with all of the Kimbo Slice hype . For those who don t know, Kimbo Slice is a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter who gained experience and notoriety fighting guys on the streets and having the footage posted on YouTube. Eventually he ran out of guys to fight on the streets to fight, so he turned towards professionals. His first two fights were quick and decisive victories, both ending in the first round. He knocked one guy out and the other tapped out in submission . (In MMA pretty much everything goes; all styles of fighting ...