Ben Fowlkes
@benfowlkesMMA
Yahoo Sports & Uncrowned. Co-Main Event Podcast. Previously: The Athletic, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Best American Short Stories. Novice hockey league MVP
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Just watched “An American Werewolf In London” and I can’t decide if it was almost good or purposely bad. Sometimes it felt like it was making fun of me. Or itself. Or maybe it was just a damn mess. Anyway, highly recommend.
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Spoke to Jacobe Smith ahead of tomorrow's UFC. When you hang with Islam in the gym on the mats, it'll give you some confidence. New piece:
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73 year-old lady I volunteer with told me I was looking “trim,” then assured me, “don’t worry, you’re still not my type.” then I asked her what her type was, exactly, and she said “Reacher.”
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If your plan is to joke your way through questions you can’t answer in order to buy time to think of some bullshit to say, you probably need to be at least a little bit funny.
Q: How do you expect us to start families young when the average price of a home feels out of reach?
JD VANCE: I want to point out that I've only gotten one question about Jon Husted's ass
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In honor of the big homie Patrick Stewart, here’s a Substack I wrote about the Star Trek TNG episode of his that actually made me cry.
Alexander Volkov explains why he showed up to the UFC 333 presser, and is still convinced Dana White did not recognize him:
"I saw they didn't have me on the press conference again, the same as the last three fights. I don't know why.
I just went through the regular gates like a regular fan... I had some questions for the fighters and Dana White.
Of course he didn't recognize me... I'm not even sure he can remember my name, and I bet every time he hears my name, he thinks they're talking about Alexander Volkanovski.
But to talk seriously, he still didn't have an answer to my question. I'm asking, what should I do? What am I supposed to do to get a title fight? And they don't have an answer."
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Day ??? of Dudey trying (and failing) to understand things 🤡
The main thing that stops me from giving money to Democrats in Montana is how they keep losing and just asking for more money. But a close second is how they have obviously sold my info to Democrats in other states who will hit me up for money for races thousands of miles away.
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Have you met gun people?? They buy all types of accessories and what not. It’s RIGHT THERE!
@benfowlkesMMA What do you think THAT thing is for Bullet? Sleeping pills?
I’m begging MMA fighters: Instead of just copying something that worked for someone else, maybe think about why THAT thing worked for THAT person and see if we can’t learn a broader lesson.
Valentina Shevchenko is releasing a new whiskey alongside Sespe Creek Distillery.
“Warbringer Bullet Edition” is limited to 170 bottles and will be available to order on November 3, per a release.
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Still time to get in on this week’s mailbag. But that time is swiftly vanishing.
Got a scam call that was not only a repeat of a scam call I got earlier (and, stupidly, almost fell for) but also THE SAME GUY. He did not want to talk about it as much as I did.
It’s that time of week where I ask for your questions for this week’s MMA mailbag and you deliver with thoughtful queries.
Halfway serious question: If you’re a person who never saw John Madden or heard him talk … would this have a chance to seem good to you?
And football commentary was never the same. #MaddenMovie#. November 18.
Wrote something for my Substack about the incredible yet not all that remarkable (for the time and place) life of one man who we’d never have heard of if his son didn’t go on to become heavyweight champion.
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If you missed it I wrote about Rocky Marciano vs Joe Louis and how feeding the old to the young is a timeless bit in fight sports.
Rocky’s manager told him: “Old guys like Louis go all of a sudden. If we don't get him first, someone else will.”
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evergreen.
Pat McAfee after a group of college kids jokingly tell him to keep his shirt on …
