AltWeeklies Wire
New York's Real Life Fight Clubsnew
Sanctioned mixed martial arts was banned in NY State back in 1997, so it went underground. But the days of illicit bouts in martial arts schools and boxing gyms throughout the five boroughs are numbered.
New York Press |
Jim Genia |
04-01-2010 |
Sports
Was Comedian Andy Kaufman the Greatest Wrestler of all Time?new
Working for the NWA wrestling promotion in Memphis—which he pronounced Maim-phis, with a degrading, faux hillbilly twang—Andy Kaufman took to the air with a series of beauty tips for the local citizens.
New York Press |
Mike Edison |
12-17-2009 |
Sports
Olympic Hypsterianew
How skimpy running shorts and nerdy headbands bridged a great cultural divide—without even trying.
New York Press |
Juliana Bunim |
08-07-2008 |
Sports
Everyday People Are Being Priced Out of Baseball Fandomnew
The Mets and Yankees will open their swanky new ballparks next season. It's just too bad nobody I know will be able to afford to see them from the inside.
New York Press |
Emma Span |
04-17-2008 |
Sports
Parkour Lifts Young New Yorkers Up Above It Allnew
As a dispossessed teenager in a working-class suburb of Paris, Frenchman David Belle invented parkour, a way of moving with the purpose of findng the most efficient way of crossing a landscape, usually an urban one, by adapting to obstacles without hesitation or disruption to the intended path.
New York Press |
Derin Thorpe |
04-10-2008 |
Sports
Tags: parkour, sports & fitness
Gut Issuesnew
Angioplasty? Colonics? What does the future hold for an unrepentant overindulger?
New York Press |
Joshua M. Bernstein |
02-28-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Told You So!new
The sportswriters got it wrong, and the Giants got it right.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
01-31-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Roger, Over and Outnew
The great Yankee pitcher has been unfairly maligned by the morality brigade.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
12-27-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Defending Scott Borasnew
No matter what fans and, more important, baseball owners think about Boras' aggressive strategy, he's not evil, he's not the devil -- he's just a sports entrepreneur who happens to be better than his peers at performing his job.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
11-15-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Should MLB Celebrate Barry Bonds' Home Run Record?new
Does the slugger leave baseball with a tainted legacy, or is it all much ado about nothing?
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan and Dave Hollander |
06-07-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Is Roger Federer Bluffing?new
The huge gasp you've heard in men's tennis the last two months has been the collective astonishment over the fact Roger Federer has played four consecutive tournaments without winning any of them -- but why?
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan and Dave Hollander |
05-24-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Girl Fight!new
The rise of fringe contact sports -- for women, by women.
New York Press |
Jerry Portwood |
02-22-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Will It Be a Super Super Bowl?new
America turns it gambling eyes southward towards to the city of Miami as the NFC's Champs the Chicago Bears -- a seven point underdog -- take on the kings of the AFC, the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan and Dave Hollander |
02-01-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Keep Jesus Out of Sportsnew
Does anyone really believe that God cares one bit about what happens in any game?
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan and Dave Hollander |
01-18-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The State of the Gamenew
The NFL in 2007.
New York Press |
C.J. Sullivan and Dave Hollander |
01-11-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
