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So how was the debut? Well, if you ask the La Cueva defense -- 11 new starters take over for the state champion Bears -- it was splendid.

Ever since last Thursday, when Darington Hobson slipped into the second round of the NBA Draft, we've heard a lot of people say the former Lobo should have stayed in Albuquerque for his senior year.

After airing episodes for the first time this May, ESPN2 will continue to televise ESPN.com’s produced and distributed weekly MMA Live series dedicated to news, highlights and analysis from the sport of mixed martial arts through August, 2010. ESPN2 will continue to provide the first airing of the weekly MMA Live series Fridays at 1 a.m. ET (Thursday at 10 p.m. PT) with the ESPN.com version, featuring additional content, available shortly after the ESPN2 telecast.

NEW YORK (May 26, 2010) – American military hero and up-and-coming middleweight, Tim Kennedy, will be opposed by the dangerous Trevor Prangley in one of the featured STRIKEFORCE Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Wednesday, June 16, on SHOWTIME®.

World Extreme Cagefighting® lightweight star Anthony Pettis will be honored by the Milwaukee Brewers during the team’s Major League Baseball game against the Houston Astros on Wednesday, May 26 at 7:10 PM CT.

Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley (5-0) will square off with fellow undefeated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) heavyweight Ron “The Monster” Sparks (5-0) when STRIKEFORCE hits Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Wednesday, June 16. DREAM welterweight champion Marius “The Whitemare” Zaromskis (13-4) will face Evangelista Cyborg (17-13) in a featured welterweight (170 pounds) contest.

Alistair “The Demolition Man’’ Overeem lived up to his nickname and his billing as one of the most dangerous heavyweights in the world on Saturday as he easily retained his STRIKEFORCE World Heavyweight Championship with a 3:40, first-round knockout over Brett Rogers in the main event of an action-packed mixed martial arts card before 8,136 enthusiastic fans who turned out for “STRIKEFORCE St. Louis: Heavy Artillery” at Scottrade Center on SHOWTIME®.

Las Vegas, NV (USA) - For the first time ever, just as UFC(r) light heavyweight rivals Rampage Jackson and Rashad Evans enter the Octagon(tm) and touch gloves, Roku users all over the country will be able to see what happens next and who emerges the winner of this ultimate grudge-match live on TV via their Roku streaming video player.

The Bears won football, boys basketball and baseball championships (among others) in the same academic year. That's only happened twice since 1950, the first year all three sports awarded titles.

For the first time in the history of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the No. 1 male and female fighters in the world will step into the cage on the same night as the top men's heavyweight and pound-for-pound great, Fedor "The Last Emperor" Emelianenko (31-1), and STRIKEFORCE Women's World Middleweight (145 pounds) Champion Cris Cyborg (9-1) return to action at HP Pavilion here on Saturday, June 26.