Category: Opinion

• February 14, 2021

  3 Biggest Takeaways from UFC 258

  

  With two featured matchups getting scrapped just hours before UFC 258, it’s not difficult to understand why the allure of this $69.99 PPV lost a lot of steam entering the weekend. Nonetheless, the results of Saturday night’s action at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas have massive implications for a few different fighters. Here are my post-fight takeaways…
• January 5, 2021

  Fighters to Watch for in 2021

  

  The UFC’s 2020 campaign shook up the rankings, the narratives, and the momentum of many fighters new and old. Being that 2020 will most likely have a huge asterisk on it, AJ and Derick compiled individual short-lists (in no particular order) comprised of fighters that they think will have a breakout 2021 campaign.
• May 29, 2020

  I Woke Up

  

  I WOKE UP: We live in a world where police brutality and ongoing racism is normal way of life for brown folks. Living in Portland, OR, considered one of the whitest cities in the US, I am aware of my racial identity every single day. Although I am aware (and proud) of my ethnic background, I try to veer more towards unity every single day…
• March 24, 2020

  Are We Missing the Point?

  

  Are We Missing the Point?: Stay home. I’m sure you’ve heard it by now even if it hasn’t been implemented in your native state. Statewide shelter-in-place acts have been ordered in Oregon, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, California, Louisiana, Delaware, Ohio, and New York. New York prefers to call their stay-at-home mandate the “PAUSE” plan and Ohio has added exemptions as have many of the other previously mentioned states, but the point should have been made clear by now. ..
• February 12, 2020

  Kobe!

  

  KOBE!: Five-seconds left on the clock. I jab step out of a triple-threat stance. Time is running down – Three, two, one… I pull up from the makeshift elbow I’ve created out of the corner of my bed and scream “Kobe!” as the buzzer in my head sounds and my miniature foam Nerf basketball bounces off the back of the plastic rim attached to my bedroom door. I must have practiced that shot fifty times before being told to stop jumping around and making noise by my parents. Not content with the sound of the swish my miniature hoop…