Daniel J. Flynn

Sports fans won’t confuse the new Dino Costa Show, billed as “uncensored, unscripted, and unlike anything in sports radio today,” for formulaic “hot take” punditry or milquetoast broadcast-by-program-director that bores listeners to death. As Dino puts it in a discussion with Breitbart Sports, “my show is where political correctness goes to die.”

Ronda Rousey faces a six-month medical suspension after a pummeling at the hands, and feet, of Holly Holm. The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion just couldn’t face the cameras when she returned to Los Angeles from Melbourne on Tuesday.

Miguel Cotto won the middleweight championship belt but he refuses to pay to keep it.

The unheralded Houston Texans invaded the home turf of the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals and made their “0” go. Then Houston’s best player added insult to injury. Kinda. Sorta.

We watched Peter Brady knock Buddy Hinton’s tooth loose Saturday night. Linderman and Clifford just bloodied up Matt Dillon and his bald accomplice. Biff got a truckload of cow mess dumped on his head, this time in Melbourne, Australia, rather than Hill Valley, California.

Peyton Manning showed himself better than Brett Favre but worse than Brock Osweiler all in one game. It’s been that kind of Twilight Zone season for the 18-year veteran.

Success, and Holly Holm’s left foot, finally got to Ronda Rousey’s head.

The New England Revolution’s all-time leading goal scorer red-carded three University of Massachusetts-Boston players who ridiculed him on Twitter for embracing litigation-forced rule changes to youth soccer that eliminate heading for under tens and limit them for older players.

Oscar De La Hoya says it’s nice to say goodbye to Floyd Mayweather in a scathing career assessment in Playboy.

The University of Missouri wears all-white uniforms when the Tigers take on the BYU Cougars this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium.

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, the first man to submit Josh Barnett in mixed-martial arts and knock out Bob Sapp in kickboxing, became the first man suspended by the UFC under its new drug-testing regime administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez fight on November 21 to determine the best middleweight not named Gennady Golovkin. Their heavyweight promoters lay down a heavy bag of change on a bet on the fight.

Sports bore some sports writers. They advertise their professional discontent by turning the sports page into the op-ed section. An underachieving college football team in Columbia, Missouri, this week awarded the failed Grantland Rices the opportunity to become third-rate Mary McGrorys. This, rather than any imaginary civil-rights triumph achieved, compels scribes to scribble love letters to a football team on a four-game losing streak.

The office of New York’s attorney general fired off cease-and-desist letters to FanDuel and DraftKings fantasy sports websites.

Ken Griffey Jr. leads a pack of fifteen first-time candidates for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The United States Soccer Federation and other of the sport’s governing bodies announced new rules for youth competition on Monday to settle a concussion lawsuit filed by parents.

“I would like to build a university of which the football team could be proud,” quipped the late University of Oklahoma President George Lynn Cross. On Monday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe left a university of which his football team could be proud. Everyone else remains puzzled.

More than thirty University of Missouri student-athletes interlocked arms for a picture this weekend conveying their solidarity to boycott football until school president Tim Wolfe resigns or receives his termination. But an anonymous player says the team is not as united as that photograph suggests.

A group of African American athletes at the University of Missouri vows to sit out the rest of the football season unless the school removes its president.

A reporter asked Rousey about her relationship with heavyweight fighter Travis Browne in the first the question posed to the 12-0 mixed-martial artist on the UFC 193 conference call. Rousey’s answer, such as it was, spoke loudly in its silence. Listen to the crickets.

Purple Heart recipient Shane Kruchten, an 11-3 professional mixed-martial artist, issued an inspiring all-expenses-paid invitation to a Gold Star Mother, Wife, or Daughter to accompany him to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball next month.