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For Anthony Pettis, fighting serves as a metaphor for life. You get knocked down, you get back up.

UFC heavyweight Matt Mitrione has a message for ISIS: “Try. C’mom. I don’t live my life in fear of anybody, especially ISIS, or anybody that has a different set of ideologies than I do.”

Football traded in the scrummage for downs from scrimmage. But it owes its ball and some of its rules to rugby. Increasingly, football looks to its forebear for advice on tackling techniques.

On Tuesday, Stan Kroenke, like so many before him, fled St. Louis.

The Rams head back to Los Angeles after 21 seasons in St. Louis—and the Chargers may eventually join them in a new stadium in Inglewood should San Diego’s voters not support major tax funding for a new venue.

Saturday night’s Pittsburgh-Cincinnati wildcard matchup played not merely as a tale of two cities but as the story of the most memorable and most forgettable football game fans ever saw.

The Cincinnati Bengals lost their heads—and then they lost the game.

Dominick Cruz calls T.J. Dillashaw “stupid” and a “meathead.” T.J. Dillashaw deems Dominick Cruz “one of those guys that talks s—.”

The mercury hits a low of -8 on Sunday in Minneapolis, which hosts its first outdoor NFL playoff game since the Vikings bested the Los Angeles Rams in balmy 19-degree weather at kickoff in 1976.

UFC 197 looks to upstage the much-hyped UFC 200 by featuring an unusual and an unexpected title matchup.

Washington Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman and Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard filed separate but similar defamation lawsuits against Al Jazeera America on Tuesday.

Ronda Rousey rebounds from her first professional loss as a mixed-martial artist with a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live later this month.

Floyd Mayweather, the highest paid prize fighter in history, charges that “racism still exists in the sport of boxing” in a new interview.

The Indianapolis Colts extended head coach Chuck Pagano’s contract four years.

Jim Harbaugh moved on from his messy divorce from the 49ers last season by landing the head coaching job at his alma mater. But a tweet from the Michigan head coach indicates that he left his heart in San Francisco.

Brook Lopez proved that size still matters in the NBA as he dominated a smaller Celtics lineup en route to a road victory for the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday afternoon.

Is ESPN showing itself as ESECPN again?

Ronda Rousey’s sister says she saw her sister die in defeat against Holly Holm—and then painfully watched as so many celebrities took joy in her younger sibling’s fall.

Eagles owner Jeff Lurie says that as a coach you must “open your heart” and value “emotional intelligence.” Would Vince Lombardi have lasted as long in Philadelphia as Chip Kelly?

Michael Bisping calls his February 27 bout with Anderson Silva a “bucket-list fight.” Anderson Silva says, “I feel like this fight probably should have happened sometime before.”

Michael Bisping vows to give Anderson Silva “zero respect once that cage door shuts.” Two months before that door shuts the mouthy Mancunian gave Silva very little respect on the conference call promoting their February 27 London bout.

A social media social movement calls on LeBron James to sit out in protest over a grand jury declining to indict two policemen in the 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Cleveland native killed while wielding an Airsoft gun in a park.

America lost Ken Stabler in 2015, and an appreciative fan sent a belated condolence letter of sorts to two of the Snake’s daughters, Kendra and Alexa.

Football knows box office—at the stadium, not the cinema.

Jeanne Marie Laskas, the writer of the article that serves as the basis of ‘Concussion,’ tells Breitbart Sports that the film relies on storytelling and does not play as a documentary.

Journeyman NFL quarterback Caleb Hanie tells Breitbart Sports that putting helmets on flag football players shows a smarter rather than a softer America.

“Tell the truth,” a frustrated Will Smith repeats in ‘Concussion.’ If only the makers of the film followed that sound advice.

The scientific claims made by the company partly owned by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the Christmas Day film release “Concussion,” elicited a rebuke from the Food and Drug Administration and a rebuttal in the scholarship of an unlikely source: Dr. Bennet Omalu.

A tax-exempt nonprofit established by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the film Concussion, funded a study on a product subsequently licensed exclusively by Omalu’s for-profit business.

Nate Diaz did the Marquess of Queensberry proud on Fox Saturday night. Then he infuriated Miss Manners.

The UFC staged a pay-per-view quality card on free television Saturday night.

An NYU law professor known for his advocacy of the death penalty filed an amicus curiae brief in the NFL v. Tom Brady appeal.

One of the world’s best basketball players sent the wife of one of the world’s best golfers out of Quicken Loans Arena on a stretcher on Thursday night.

A University of Massachusetts-Amherst guard credits his mom shutting off his cell phone for his 40-point performance Wednesday night.

A professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas discovered an interview of Dr. James Naismith in the Library of Congress that remains the lone recording of the inventor of basketball’s voice.

NBA referee Bill Kennedy kicked Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo out of a game against the Boston Celtics earlier this month in Mexico City. In response, Rondo allegedly called him a word for a bundle of twigs that begins with “f,” ends in a “t,” and rhymes with maggot.