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Riddick Bowe made millions in his unforgettable trilogy with Evander Holyfield. The former two-time heavyweight champion now sells his tweets for $20.

Curt Schilling penned a letter to his 16-year-old self warning him against the dangers of tobacco. His 16-year-old self didn’t write back warning him against the dangers of thinking the post office can deliver a letter 32 years in the past.

University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh’s full-throated support for American Sniper that united even Ohio State fans behind him divided his own campus, say the student leaders who pushed to ban the Academy Award-winning film at the Ann Arbor school.

On Friday morning, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred boasted of shaving off ten minutes per game this young season. On Friday night, the Red Sox and Yankees played well into Saturday morning.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred told CNBC’s Squawk Box on Friday that he intends to give a Pete Rose “a full and fresh look” in his attempt to remove MLB’s ban on him.

“We’re fast approaching a point where there’s going to be no real difference between Bob Costas and Rachel Maddow,” Dylan Gwinn writes in Bias in the Booth: An Insider Exposes How Sports Media Distort News. “Except one of them is a man. I think.”

The University of Michigan cancelled, and then rescheduled, a campus showing of American Sniper. Their football coach announced that his players will watch the movie.

“I’m kind of just in a weird spot right now,” Chad Mendes told Breitbart Sports this weekend.

Bubba Watson looks to repeat at Augusta. His colleagues on the PGA Tour look to retreat if he ever finds himself in a fistfight.

Mitt may enjoy a name for baseball. He clearly possesses a mind for hoops.

Barack Obama may have beaten Mitt Romney (pictured posting up against a comfy chair) in 2012’s presidential race. The former governor of Massachusetts bested him in 2015’s NCAA basketball tournament.

Shoot baskets, not hoops fans.

UFC fighter Clay Guida gave a spirited defense of the embattled sport of wrestling this weekend in response to a Breitbart Sports question about why fans chant his name as they boo other cage-fighting wrestlers.

Most fighters call out future opponents after a victory. Clay Guida called out the current president.

Breitbart Sports reports live from the front row of a rare daytime UFC Fight Night at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia.

Before getting hit by a winter for the ages, Fenway Park head groundskeeper Dave Mellor got hit by a crazed driver in Milwaukee County Stadium’s left field. He overcame both violent challenges.

Long Island mixed-martial-artist Al Iaquinta tells Breitbart Sports that he thinks 2015 marks the year that his state finally legalizes his sport.

Deion Sanders famously angered Carlton Fisk by tracing a dollar sign in the batter’s box. Deion Sanders Jr. angers his father by slumming it.

Jorge Masvidal fasts this Good Friday. But it’s because he wants to knock out Al Iaquinta on Saturday and not because Jesus Christ rises from the dead on Sunday.

Jose Aldo picks Chad Mendes to beat Ricardo Lamas on Saturday. Chad Mendes picks Jose Aldo to beat Conor McGregor this July. “But, for whatever reason, if Conor wins, I’d like to get in there and beat the crap out of that guy to take the belt,” Mendes tells Breitbart Sports.

Some mixed-martial artists start with a base of wrestling or jiu-jitsu. Jorge Masvidal began as a YouTube brawler.

The NCAA’s president says he’s “very pleased” that Indiana lawmakers have tinkered with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed last week.

UFC President Dana White tells Breitbart Sports that Ronda Rousey, who hits theaters this weekend in Furious 7, can do as many movies as she pleases from the UFC’s standpoint because fighting comes first for her.

The promotors of the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao superfight look to cash in by charging as much as $100 for a home viewing of the pay-per-view bout. But one of the world’s most famous economists tells Breitbart Sports that a law of diminishing returns sets in when sellers price a product above what the market will bear.

Indianapolis, the focal point of national news this week, becomes the center of the sports universe this weekend. Lucas Oil Stadium hosts college basketball’s Final Four, which, because of Indiana Governor Mike Pence signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) last week, brings fans as well as protestors to the Midwestern metropolis.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft testified in a Fall River, Massachusetts, court that his former player Aaron Hernandez offered him an alibi to the accusation that he murdered Odin Lloyd.

A federal lawsuit brought by StubHub charges that the Golden State Warriors and Ticketmaster not only profit from the scalping of tickets on the secondary market but that they employ monopolistic practices to shut out competition as well.

The NBA, WNBA, and their Indianapolis-based teams felt compelled to release a joint statement in reaction to Indiana’s religious freedom bill signed into law this week by Governor Mike Pence.

UFC President Dana White tells Breitbart Sports that “everybody’s a f—ing genius” when it comes to running your affairs by remote.

Two years ago, “Conor McGregor” appeared on an Irish welfare check. Today, the name graces a Las Vegas marquee.

UFC President Dana White tells Breitbart Sports that Ronda Rousey catalyzed an epiphany on women’s mixed-martial arts.

Speaking to Breitbart Sports UFC President Dana White responded with words of support for his biggest cash cow putting himself out to pasture.

Irish featherweight Conor McGregor charged Jose Aldo, dismissed him as a “co-main event champion,” and offered to hire him as a cleaner at a raucous event promoting UFC 189 at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Brock Lesnar, the professional wrestler who elevated mainstream interest in the UFC, has opted against a return to mixed-martial arts (MMA).

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick materialized in the annual NFL coaches photo after pulling a disappearing act in past years.

Michael Sam went to the first NFL veterans combine to resurrect his never quite alive NFL career. He left Tempe certain never to play a down in an official NFL game.