And herein lies the rub: The type of personality that it takes to be an MMA star is almost diametrically opposed to being “likable".

True, but the Rousey and McGregor pushes have already blown up in their faces (Rousey much more than McGregor). WME have tried everything to make Rousey likable and it has failed.

The more time passes, the more Joe Rogan and Dana White are converging to the same point. Soon they will merge.

Success looks like KD, Klay, and Draymond not catching Zika or getting stabbed in Rio then winning a championship. Anything less than a championship is failure when you set the season win record then add a generational talent to that same core.

at least 73-9 and doing the Moses Malone 4-4-4-4. They have to erase any shred out doubt they are the best next year

I hope they go undefeated and score 1,000 points per game. I hope they melt the arenas in which they play because they make the ball move so beautifully, and so quickly, that the air becomes super-heated with the vigorous masturbation of the assembled angelic hosts of heaven. I hope Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Klay…

“What I didn’t truly understand, however, was the range of emotions I would feel during this process.”

This is a GIGANTIC shift in the landscape.

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s…