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Boxing judges don’t award moral victories. But Conor McGregor won one on Saturday night.

Thirty months ago, I spoke to Conor McGregor about Floyd Mayweather. About thirty hours from now, the two fight.

America this week entered into its Reign of Terror phase of the Great 2017 Revolution Against Evil Statuary.

The UFC released a statement in the wake of news first reported by TMZ Sports that Jon Jones tested positive for steroids during the period corresponding with his UFC 214 fight with Daniel Cormier.

In Donald Trump’s old gambling houses, no player doubled down on a six. In Donald Trump’s White House, the president looks to double down on his soft hand in Afghanistan.

The humor that ages like wine instead of milk—Gulliver’s Travels, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, I Love Lucy—appears as the exception that proves the rule.

If the simulacrums could speak, they would say: “Leave me be—I’m a Democrat, too!”

The history of American socialism, until fairly recently, was a history of American racism.

Jeffrey Lord did not see CNN’s ax falling before it took off his talking head.

Those rallying under the mantra “National Socialism Now” in Charlottesville chose the perfect slogan if not for that “w” at the end.

The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight struggles to sell out just two weeks before the fight.

The first line of a Sports Illustrated piece detailing Bennet Omalu’s characterization of football as “child abuse” falsely labels him the “doctor credited with discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy.” The article goes downhill from there.

Why do men assign themselves starring roles in battles they never even witnessed? Because the rewards for such tall tales remain high and the consequences minimal.

New York Jets defensive back called the football field “the perfect place to die.” Green Bay Packers tight end Martellus Bennett countered that anyone willing to die on the field needs to get a life.

Conor McGregor’s sparring partner abruptly resigned from his role after an especially “violent” session in the ring with the Irishman.

A new study estimates that 38 percent of Americans use prescription opioids in a given year. It doesn’t say whether the 62 percent not getting pills from pharmacists licensed and unlicensed get their drugs from a neighbor’s grow room or a biker’s shed-cum-laboratory.

Anthony Scaramucci’s tenure in the Trump White House proved memorable, albeit in the same ways that the Deliverance rape scene did. It was short, painful, and traumatizing.

The two best fighters in mixed-martial arts (MMA) square off Saturday night. Neither one goes by the name “Conor McGregor.”

President Donald Trump earlier this week tweeted out news of his ban on trans people serving in the military.

Last year, the New York Times reported that the brain bank associated with Boston University found chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 76 of 79 former NFL players examined. This week, the Old Gray Lady reported the group finding CTE in 110 of 111 players examined. Like so much of what the Times reports, this doesn’t add up.

Last year, the marionettes rebelled. Naturally, the Great Puppeteer Counter-revolt of 2017 followed.

A Pew Research Center survey found that about half of liberal Democrat respondents admit that discovering that a person voted for Donald Trump would make a friendship with that person difficult. The other half of respondents did not admit this.

The self-described “rogue journalist” who wished John McCain dead on Monday explains to Breitbart News that she sticks by her story in the aftermath of the Arizona senator’s brain-cancer diagnosis.

Strange times when the one without the brain tumor appears as the one sick in the head.

A writer at Medium.com wishes death upon Senator John McCain in an article published Monday.

They don’t call it Taxachusetts for nothing.

Doctor Who soon transitions. As the Second Doctor might say, “Oh, my word!”

Tens of thousands of atavists, capitalists, and human curios converge on tiny Brimfield, Massachusetts, this weekend to party like it’s 1899.

A new study in the JAMA Neurology found that cognitive issues, depression, and alcoholism do not afflict former high school football players any more than they do their non-playing counterparts.

After a nearly double-digit ratings freefall, the NFL experiences a lighter than expected demand for advertising buys for the upcoming season.

Is Jesus a hate crime?

When the president of the United States picks it up, the news media picks it up.

Donald Trump’s bell-ringing comes as the latest and loudest in a transgenerational sounding of alarms. How long can we keep hitting snooze before we are too late for the task?

The Iron Maiden fan club, the local Dungeons & Dragons Meetup, and the annual nunchucks tournament remain all-male by chance. Harvard University’s Fox Club once again becomes all-male by choice.

Fifty-six men pledged “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” 241 years ago.

Samantha Gordon believes in life, liberty, and the pursuit of football.