Seriously guys. No posts for six days? You’d think one of our writers just fell off the face of the earth or something.
*whistles*
Blog
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The Loss of a Champion
This is disappointing news to me. Randy “The Natural” Couture has resigned from the UFC via a fax from South Africa. For anyone who is now asking who the heck that is… he’s the current (well, was I guess, he’s not anymore) heavyweight champion in the Mixed Martial Arts league called UFC. UFC is the ‘new’ boxing. It sweeping the nation, no change that, it’s swiffer-ing the nation and becoming one of the fastest growing sports in North America. Randy Couture was one of the guys I really loved watching in this league, he’s a very classy guy, he’s one of those guys that is never supposed to win and always does, and he’s got outstanding character to boot. He gave reason for his resignation:
“I’m tired of being taken advantage of, played as the nice guy and basically swimming against the current with the management of the UFC,” he said. “I have a lot of other things going on in my life that I’m doing just fine with. I don’t need the problems. I don’t feel like I get the respect I deserve from the organization, and that’s motivation No. 2 for the letter of resignation that was sent today.”
The other problem with his resignation is that he’s also resigned as commentator, which means we are now stuck listening to Joe Rogan as color commentator. I could write up a whole ‘nother blog about all the things wrong with him (John Madden is notorious for being one of the most annoying color commentators in the sports industry, if you ask me, compared to Rogan, the garbage that comes out of his mouth is nothing but beautiful poetry).
What it boils down to is this. The UFC lost one of their greatest ambassadors for their sport, and it appears from reports that it’s largely due to it’s president Dana White. While I’m sure we will eventually hear more on what happened, in the meantime, “The Natural” will be greatly missed.
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What’s happening here?
There’s some crazy stuff going on these days in the wide, wide world of sports. And, you guessed it, I’ve got some thoughts on it. This is the part where you decide if it’s worth reading.
Injury Bug
All across the NFL, players are dropping like flies from all sorts of injuries. Tampa Bay lost Cadillac Williams to a potentially career threatening injury last week. They turn around this week and watch their backup running back go down for 6-8 weeks with an ankle injury. Miami got the chance to watch their starting QB get knocked out (getting a grade 3 concussion, the worst kind) after going for a low block. This after he was knocked out for over a month last year with a less serious concussion last year. And this wasn’t just limited to the Florida teams. Denver lost their starting center for the whole year, Carolina’s going to be without Jake Delhomme for the remainder of the season (I told you Carr would be the full time starter by week 7), Matt Leinart won’t see the field for about 6 weeks, the Aints lost Deuce for the year, and Cincy didn’t even get Kenny Irons into the regular season before he was shelved.
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Cutting Monthly Costs
Take an hour, sit down and go through your monthly expenses, gather your bills from the past few months and figure out what you can cut out in order to save yourself money. For example, I canceled my satellite radio, and switched to a text messaging plan with fewer monthly texts to save money a total of $23.75 a month.
The more you’re willing to sacrifice the more you can save, some things you may consider for cutting costs- Cable
- Online gaming (Xbox live, WoW, etc)
- Magazine/newspaper subscriptions
- Movie rental subscriptions (Netflix, Blockbuster Online)
- Gym membership you never use
Of course with things like Blockbuster online, you might actually be saving yourself money instead of renting locally or going to the movies in theater, so take that into account.
Next, take that money you were already spending each month and put it into a savings account (see: Longterm Savings Growth).