As I return to the blogosphere after a two-week hiatus, I'm sitting in my perch in Yankee Stadium's press box waiting through an interminable rain delay. It's disgusting here, on all nights, the one when Derek Jeter has a chance to become the Yankees' all-time hits leader. Journal News beat writer Peter Abraham wrote a good line earlier today: "Not even Mother Nature will mess with Derek Jeter. Like every other girl, she’s crazy about the Captain." I guess she's in tune to the rumors of his engagement to Minka Kelly.
While tracking Jeter and the Yankees - in case you haven't noticed, their magic number for clinching the AL East is 15 - on the YES Blog, I've kept plenty busy in the MMA world too. Since I last checked in ....
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueria and Randy Couture had a classic fight at UFC 102 worthy of two great warriors with Minotauro pulling off the unanimous decision. Nogueria is in line for a shot at heavyweight title, but judging from recent comments he wants a rematch with Frank Mir, but Mir vs. Cheick Kongo is almost locked in for UFC 105 in December.
Junkie ran my feature on TUF Heavyweights contestant Matt Mitrione this week. Later that day, I was clued in to a verbal agreement to Matt Hamill vs. Jon Jones at the The Ultimate Finale in December. The buzz for that fight has been tremendous. This will undoubtedly be Jones' toughest fight while Hamill will have to prepare for his greatest challenge since Rich Franklin.
On tap for FIGHT! Magazine's Web site: Short stories on Ryan Schultz and Zak Cummings, the latter who is headlining the Strikeforce September 25 Challengers Series against Tim Kennedy.
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