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Chuck Bednarik fought Nazis in the skies over Germany. Then he drove Frank Gifford into the earth in the Bronx.

President Barack Obama picked the Kentucky Wildcats to win the NCAA tournament in his bracket revealed Wednesday on ESPN.

NFL players live longer lives than their peers watching in the stands and commit suicide far less than men outside of the league. So why does the media report 24-year-old Chris Borland’s retirement from the San Francisco 49ers as though the linebacker has just saved his life rather than moved on to a new one?

Evander Holyfield laces up the gloves for the first time in four years against an unconventional opponent: Mitt Romney.

Duke, Villanova, Wisconsin, and Kentucky enter March Madness as the teams to beat.

Spike TV delivered a knockout—or two—in its premiere of Premier Boxing Champions.

Aaron Hernandez doesn’t follow a to-do list. He keeps a get-done list.

Jason Worilds faced a massive payday after compiling seven sacks and playing as one of the better linebackers in the league last season. Instead of cashing in, Worilds cashed out. He announced, at 27, his retirement from the National Football League.

When Lions fan and attorney Neal Brand attempted to point out that a federal court overturned Detroit prohibitions on reselling tickets at face value nearly a decade ago, police officer Deborah Gaines allegedly told him to “take it up with a judge or someone else that may care.” So he did.

Adrien Broner put on a boxing clinic for twelve rounds on NBC over the weekend. His critics have put on a display of political correctness 24/7 on Twitter since his postfight interview.

Ndamukong Suh refused to give the Detroit Lions a home-team discount so that he could give himself a huge tax discount by agreeing to terms with the Miami Dolphins.

Keith Thurman unleashed big hands. Robert Guerrero displayed big heart.

The last time NBC broadcast a championship boxing match in primetime Simple Minds’s “Don’t You (Forget about Me)” ruled the pop charts. The song has aged better than the sport.

Fedor Emelianenko addressed questions about God and the UFC with Breitbart Sports but he tapped out on a discussion of Vladimir Putin.

CM Punk, the former fake wrestler seeking to become a real fighter, made a long stride toward that goal on Monday by engaging in his first sparring session.

The early money favors the underdog.

M. Stanton Evans, the author of the Sharon Statement elucidating the guiding principles of Young Americans for Freedom, has passed away at 80. He leaves behind 10 books and 10,000 jokes.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz tells Breitbart Sports that though fighters in the early days of mixed-martial arts may have been tougher, the guys fighting now compete at a higher level.

The first openly-gay player drafted into the NFL will perform at the NFL’s first veteran combine. But unlike his profitable gig on ABC, Michael Sam will pay to play on the NFL’s made-for-television event.

“When I first came to America,” Royce Gracie confessed to Breitbart Sports, “I thought, ‘Wow. How come people don’t know what Gracie Jiu Jitsu is?’”

Ken Shamrock, who returns to mixed-martial arts (MMA) after a five-year absence, tells Breitbart Sports that he originally left the UFC for the WWF because he could not support his family as a cage fighter in the 1990s.

A terrorist who lops off heads wearing their cap atop his head prompted the Pittsburgh Pirates to release a statement disassociating themselves from Jihadi John.

Paul Daley electrified a packed Mohegan Sun Arena that included a Mt. Rushmore of MMA greats in Fedor Emelianenko, Royce Gracie, Tito Ortiz, and Ken Shamrock in blitzing a game and resilient Andre Santos.

Bellator 134 required the championship rounds to determine a new light-heavyweight champion.

A packed Mohegan Sun Arena cheered on local favorites in the undercard of Bellator 134 on Friday night. All but one of the six preliminary bouts ended by knockout or submission

The world’s most famous street fighter battles the “the World’s Most Dangerous Man” in a bout for the ages—the old ages.

A thief made off with Travis Kvapil’s Team Xtreme No. 44 car on Friday morning. The grand theft auto tool place at a Drury Inn parking lot in Morrow, Georgia. Surveillance video shows the larceny took place at 5:34. Team Xtreme reported the theft to the police sixteen minutes later.

Is it the girth of the arm that indicates power or the length? Does knockout power come not from the arm at all but from the trunk, hips, legs, and even ankles, feet, and toes? Does what’s being thrown matter less than where it lands?

Mixed-martial artist Muhammed Lawal, who dabbles in professional wrestling, believes professional wrestler CM Punk, now dabbling in mixed-martial arts, will succeed in his transition to the UFC.

MMA star Paul Daley told Breitbart Sports that British culture fosters a physical combat that gives an edge to UK fighters who pursue their passion professionally.

Two mixed-martial arts legends alongside one pedigreed prospect addressed a gymnasium of teen wrestlers and pre-teen admirers at the Boys and Girls Club. Royce Gracie, Tito Ortiz, and Aaron Pico spoke to the youthful audience in the same basketball gym where accused murderer Aaron Hernandez spent much of his youth.

Royce Gracie, the Babe Ruth and Abner Doubleday of mixed-martial arts (MMA), talked to Breitbart Sports about the sport’s origins and future on Wednesday.

At the very Boys and Girls Club where accused murderer Aaron Hernandez spent many afternoons during his formative years Bellator MMA light heavyweight Tito Ortiz told Breitbart Sports that wrestling rescued him from gang life and aimlessness as a teenager.

A San Francisco supervisor seeks to ban chewing tobacco and dip on athletic fields in his city. What’s next? Those cool toys that come in Happy Meals?

The Hardcore Kid believes rap is “destroying the world,” art is “made to be put on the wall not all over your body,” and cage fighting runs on the negative forces of “ego and pride.” What’s Emanuel Newton doing in mixed-martial arts?

The gloves worn by Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston in their rematch sold for $965,000 at an auction this week. To put the buy in perspective, the pricetag stands at about five times the amount the heavyweight championship bout generated in its gate receipts.