throughsilver

MMA: On Legends

Everybody likes a good legend; one of those near-immortals we can all look up to. Well, apart from those jerks who like banging on about ‘sacred cows’, but those people suck most of the time anyway. Yes, legends. A personal favourite legend is sprinter Michael Johnson. He was knocking about during my athletics-viewing life, andContinue reading “MMA: On Legends”

SORBO Watch: ‘You get caught lying about cancer, you’re gonna get punched’ I realised when writing about the introduction of burly man-thing SORBO to glamorous Newport that his name (and actually the delivery of said name that I recommended) was somewhat reminiscent of alien newscaster from Futurama’s year 3000, Morbo. The coincidence was just that,Continue reading

The Blurst of Times

A familiar subject for this post. After my preview and instinctual thoughts on Pride 33, here is the finished article I have penned for the Total MMA newsletter. These thoughts are hopefully a tad more organised than the previous ones, and I have even made a pretty picture for this one! Anyway. * * *AsContinue reading “The Blurst of Times”

Conspiracy theories, subterfuge… and I’m not talking 24

I promised myself (and, by extension, the rest of the world) that I would not fall into the trap of writing weekly updates on Lost, The O.C. or anything else, but notes must be made on recent happenings. Perhaps news has reached you, the dear reader, of the ongoing discord between Richard Branson’s Virgin MediaContinue reading “Conspiracy theories, subterfuge… and I’m not talking 24”