The Fighting Life
Ben FowlkesJust straight up writin' stuff. Occasional meandering philosophizing, sometimes dovetailing with my long career covering fight sports. Or not.
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The accountability gap
So there I was, doing clean and jerks in the garage gym while listening to The Daily podcast. Pretty normal Monday, really. Except this time the podcast made me very mad, which might have been good for my clean and jerks but bad for my spir...
Time portals, vampires, and regret
The other day I sent this meme to the big homie Chad Dundas so we could talk about it on our show. Actually, meme is too strong a word for it. What this was, if we’re being honest, was grade-A shitposting. It was a tweet in response to a hy...
I would like to learn how to be kinder to people
The other day I was in a craft store with my child. This is the thing about having artsy children, is you’re always wandering around a Michael’s trying to figure out where these people hide the modeling clay or whatever. Still better than s...
What happens if we stop believing good things are possible?
A while back I was talking with a friend about the ongoing horrors. Just in general, you know. I can’t remember which specific marker of a society in decline we were discussing, but it was one of those now daily news items about the governm...
Some notes on the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender
If you don’t have a close personal relationship with someone in the performing arts there is a very good chance you totally missed the comments that made a segment of the population very mad at Timothée Chalamet. In case you missed it, the...
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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, MMA Fighting, and others. But on here I'm mostly writing about ... other stuff.
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