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According to Ed Soares, after the Irvin fight Anderson will be defending his belt against Okami. No big surprise but that's pretty close to official.

The iPhone 2.0 firmware came out today. I can't download it until tomorrow and I'm chomping at the bit here. This is what the iPhone should have been from the beginning...open to 3rd party development. A lot of the common aps are free... like AIM, twitter, facebook, etc. but there are some that cost some cash.

It's a gogoplata from the top.

Most up-to-date DREAM5 card is in the op. I'm looking forward to the LW semi-finals but otherwise nothing else is really grabbing my attention.

Might as well have a thread. MAIN CARD Anderson Silva vs. James Irvin Brandon Vera vs. Reese Andy Frankie Edgar vs. Hermes Franca Jake O'Brien vs. Cain Velasquez Kevin Burns vs. Anthony Johnson C.B. Dollaway vs. Jesse Taylor PRELIMINARY CARD Brodie Farber vs. Rory Markham Brad Blackburn vs. James Giboo Nate Loughran vs. Johnny Rees Shannon Gugherty vs. Dale Hartt I think it turned out to be a pretty good free card, actually... with the addition of C.B. vs. Jesse. Obviously it's a rushed UFN but it's the perfect card to breeze through after the Affliction show. My picks: Silva via KO round 2 Vera via KO round 1 Edgar via UD Velasquez via KO round 3 (try and lay on a high level college wrestler for three rounds Jake) Rumble via KO round 1 C.B. via UD Yes, sub of the night may very well come from the undercard here.

I get my home internet back tomorrow evening. I bet you are all eagerly anticipating my epic masterpiece muxtape. Especially Czech.

Wait, studios claimed losses for the Lord of the Rings films?

Beadie Russel was not on five seasons of The Wire, only 4. And I was just in Scranton... not like I'd only go back for Mindy Kaling, though.

By the way we're still doing weight classes. I'll take care of it.

Well here's one of the pranks and it's a damn good one. http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/07/08/ark...rise/#more-3857 Spoilers, obviously. I always thought Bruno had some really funny moments on the show so this could be just as good as Borat.

You guys only have a few years to wait until Windows 7.0 comes out anyway. Then none of this matters.

This article is stupid and pointless. Some of the old guard have seen their stars dim out but that doesn't mean there are no movie stars anymore. Sloppy and lazy writing.

Tong already helped me out a bit here. Herring has never been able to stuff a take down and I think Brock is the fastest, strongest, most explosive wrestler that the heavyweight division has seen in a long time, maybe ever. I fully conceed that if it stays standing then Heath will probably win the fight but I just can't imagine how it does. Heath is also not going to be able to pull a sub out of his ass while his face is getting pounded into oblivion like Mir did. Did you see Mir's face after ONLY 30 seconds? You're right. Brock hasn't concretely shown anything at all yet but I strongly believe in his potential. Hey I'll be the first to admit if I was wrong after the fight.

That's a nice $10,000 donation to the prize pool by Forrest. What charity.

You're just as guilty of it as he is. As am I... which you'll see every time Ed Herman fights. Ginger trailer parking mother fucker. Let's just everyone relax and play nice or I might have to actually moderate a thread.

My favorite minor league pitcher, Chris Volstad, made his MLB debut yesterday and got the win in two innings of relief. He has the potential to be a very good MLB pitcher. I want to be optimistic about the Marlins so badly but the run differential tells me to curb my enthusiasm.

Congratulations to Frosty for winning the earnings title for Season 3 and to Cuban Linx for defeating YnA by one point to win the points championship.

Herring has done absolutely nothing in the UFC to make me think he can beat Brock. Nothing. If knees to a downed opponent were legal he'd be a better fighter but that still wouldn't help him in this fight because I can't envision a scenario where he'd be on top. I know Heath is more well rounded than Brock and has boatloads more experience but I'd honestly be shocked if he won the fight. It all comes back to JOB making Heath look like a punk and Brock being about 10x the wrestler/athlete that O'Brien is, in my mind.

My entirely non-scientific opinion was that Rampage won the fight. Granted, I watched the fight in a bar without sound and surrounded by about 75 people huddled around one sub 50' plasma. Everyone there, including myself, thought Rampage won the fight... but I need to watch it again more closely and more soberly.

I added a new option to the poll which I subsequently voted for.

Sorry for slacking on my mod duties...my life will be back to normal next week. I think I talked some casual MMA fan friends of mine in to ordering so I may just get to see this tonight.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/people_nm/holmes_dc Sasha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell are going to star as Sherlock Holmes and Watson. That could go either way...

Two cool pieces of news floating around. 1) UFC 89 is free on Spike TV so Bisping/Leben and Sanchez/Alves for free. Nice. 2) All federal drug charges were dropped against Leonard Garcia. Hopefully he can put a win or two together and get in the cage with Urijah. I'd like to see that fight. Garcia looked great in his WEC debut at 145.

Can we maybe drop the 12 hour rule over the holiday weekend? I'm going to be out of town but I don't want to crap out of the draft.