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Go ahead, says Landon Donovan. Heckle me. Get on my case about the World Cup. Post the Landon in Germany: Worthless banner. I'll just play better. That's the message Donovan and the Los Angeles Galaxy sent Saturday in Washington, handing runaway MLS...

Nick Rimando stopped Clint Dempsey's shootout kick, and D.C. United rode Brian Carroll's successful boot moments earlier to a 4-3 victory Saturday over the New England Revolution and advanced to the MLS Cup. It was the first Major League Soccer game...

USA is a legitimate, if peculiar, soccer nation If you're wondering whether reaching the quarterfinals qualifies the United States as a soccer nation, consider this: An American director (Terry Gilliam, the sole non-Englishman in Monty Python) took...

Annoy everyone; support the USA To those who aren't sure whether to back the US national team as it runs the gauntlet of World Cup qualifying games known as the Hexagonal, consider this reason: Rebellion. The very idea of the United States...

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New York is by far the biggest holdout in the USA in the 10-year push for MMA regulation, an effort spearheaded by UFC and accelerated in the past four years with Marc Ratner, former Nevada state athletic commission executive director, leading the...

The collision between head and fist doesn't always favor the fist.

The UFC is all about fighting, but President Dana White has been repairing business relationships over the last few months.

On Nov. 12, 1993, 10 fighters from assorted backgrounds gathered for a competition billed as a no-holds-barred fighting contest -- the Ultimate Fighting Championship, broadcast on pay-per-view from Denver's McNichols Sports Arena.

For nine years, the UFC has led an effort to get mixed martial arts accepted, legalized and regulated through most of the USA, succeeding across three-quarters of the country.

Fans booed. Tim Sylvia protested. UFC President Dana White was shocked. At UFC 48 in 2004, referee Herb Dean was besieged. He had just stopped the heavyweight title bout between Sylvia and Frank Mir.

Many mixed martial artists need the money. Some just prefer to stay busy and take on mental challenges along with their physical challenges.

Movie chronicles life of deaf fighter.

Brock Lesnar isn't one to seek out an image makeover. But the former pro wrestler and current UFC heavyweight champion is showing a different public face these days, and it's not because he's sporting a beard. Often shown in Ultimate Fighting...

UFC welterweight Koscheck exudes positive energy, whether he's picking the music for his walk to the cage, reading Bible-inspired motivational e-mail or helping others through tough times via his Twitter feed. Yet, he also uses Twitter to remind...

Early Ultimate Fighting Championship events included the occasional ill-prepared sumo wrestler. Japanese shows have featured everyone from cartoon characters to Olympic athletes making abrupt transitions to a new sport.

UFC President Dana White had heard plenty of surprising things from Brock Lesnar. But nothing prepared him for a call he got last fall from Lesnar, while the heavyweight champion was hospitalized and on painkillers.

Fedor, who gets the same first-name treatment in MMA circles that Kobe Bryant gets in the NBA, is several contradictions in one. He's a gentle, humble man whose mystique can rattle opponents. He has a doughy figure but is quicker than his opponents.

Matt Mitrione, Kimbo Slice's opponent Saturday at UFC 113 (10 p.m. ET, pay-per-view), rose to fame and infamy as Slice's castmate on The Ultimate Fighter. Can he change or at least flesh out his image as well? That image took more of a battering...

Jon Jones' ascent from 20-year-old fighter in unsanctioned Massachusetts bouts to an Ultimate Fighting Championship headliner has taken less than two years.

Mark Coleman is 45. He started his MMA career in 1996, winning UFC tournaments and a heavyweight belt along with a championship in Japan.

Herschel Walker still loves to compete, and unlike other 40-something athletes, he's not into golf.

Cutting down to the weight limit for an MMA fight isn't an exact science.

The U.S. mixed martial arts calendar wraps up Saturday with two cards featuring a fighter and an organization with big media plans in 2010. The fighter is Cung Le, who returns to fighting on a short break from Hollywood, where he expects MMA...

He's the host of MTV's Bully Beatdown, a showman with a flair for flamboyant dances, a Twitter devotee who enjoys debating faith and reason, a writer and a radio host.

UFC Hall of Famer is a cerebral elder statesman, but still capable of handling himself in a fight of his own.

Forrest Griffin is the only author in the current New York Times hardcover advice best-sellers' list who fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He also may be the only author on the list who confesses to being a horrible driver or expresses...