2011 June at LinesMaker

Gene: Alonso Is Just Better Than Massa

Gene: Alonso is just bet­ter than Massa Marc Gene has refuted sug­ges­tions that Fer­nando Alonso gets pref­er­en­tial equip­ment at Fer­rari, say­ing Alonso’s results are bet­ter because he is better. This year’s Cham­pi­onship has again seen Alonso hold the advan­tage over the Brazil­ian with 69 points to Massa’s 24. The Spaniard has also out­qual­i­fied his team-mate in all six grands prix. How­ever, Gene, who is Ferrari’s test dri­ver, insists this has noth­ing to do with Alonso get­ting bet­ter equip­ment. Rather, it’s because the Spaniard is just better. “I... 

Team Lesnar Blog: Chris Cope on “the Ultimate Fighter 13,” Episode No. 10

Chris Cope MMAjunkie.com Well, it’s finally over. Months of wait­ing for the tour­na­ment to play out on Spike TV are finally over, and now you know what hap­pened — I came up one fight short of mak­ing it to the finals. Hon­estly, I didn’t yet get a chance to re-watch the fight. I’ve been in Las Vegas and prepar­ing for my fight on the finale this week­end, so I didn’t get a chance to tune in. I had some peo­ple tell me they thought I won the first round, and I know Brock Lesnar was really happy as it was happening. If you watch the fight, I know I was stop­ping Ram­sey Nijem’s... 

Will Wheels Fall Off Boxing’s Over-40 Bandwagon?

By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports It may seem like a trend, though it’s not. It may seem like the wave of the future, but any­one who loves box­ing had bet­ter hope it’s not the case. Watch­ing men 40 years old and more fight for world cham­pi­onships isn’t some­thing that is good for the long-term health of box­ing. Just a few weeks after 46-year-old Bernard Hop­kins made box­ing his­tory by becom­ing the old­est fighter even to win a major world title, 42-year-old Glen John­son will attempt to move into the finals of Showtime’s Super Six tour­na­ment Sat­ur­day when he...