The Fighting Life
Ben FowlkesMore or less weekly musings about whatever, man. Sometimes dovetailing with my long sports writing career focused on the world of professional fighting. Mostly other stuff, though.
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Summer is dead/refusing to die
An unfortunate series of events has throttled all my August joy
I’ll say one thing for those air quality maps on my phone’s weather app: They do accurately portray the apocalyptic feel of a bad smoke day. You wake up in the morning, look a...
The sordid appeal of the Scumbag Narrator
So there’s this book by John Gregory Dunne called “Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season.” I had never heard of it until the big homie Dan Brooks recommended it, saying it was the kind of memoir where you’re not sure everything in it actually ha...
Damn these vampires
I know I’ve cultivated a certain kind of social media algorithm for myself because back in May I was essentially force-fed video clips and updates from the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas. If you missed this because you are normal, the whole id...
The five stages of watching a minor league baseball manager get thrown out of the ballgame
[The following is based on a true story. It happened just this week. No names have been changed but a ton of poetic license has been taken and will not be relinquished.]
It was the bottom of the second inning. The game had barely gotten st...
A lot of people don't want to talk about any of the real stuff surrounding Conor McGregor, which is weird to me
There's a big UFC fight on Saturday and there is one big thing we all know but many of us would rather pretend we don't.
For the first time in five years, Conor McGregor is due to get into a sanctioned fistfight in the UFC on Saturday nigh...
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Sports writer for Yahoo and Uncrowned. I talk on the Co-Main Event Podcast and I've covered fight sports for The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, and others. But on here I'm mostly writing about ... other stuff.
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