May 20, 2013

UFC / MMA: LaRosa grabs last-second submission to beat Warren

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(PhatzRadio / MMA) — Tara LaRosa needed most of three rounds to get a dominant position, but she made it count. The top-rated female fighter at 125 pounds secured an armbar to submit Kelly Warren with one second left in their bout Resurrection Fighting Alliance’s mixed martial arts show Friday in Kearney, Neb. LaRosa, returning [...]

March Madness 2012: Final Four brings big programs to Big Easy

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Looking for those charming underdog stories? Go find the DVD from last year. This year’s Final Four brings together an ensemble of big-name schools, all saddled with their typically big-time issues — a reminder that everything in college sports is not as pure as the NCAA and its “student-athletes” would like [...]

UFC / MMA: Tara LaRosa expects to shed bad habits for Warren bout

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(PhatzRadio / MMA) — Female mixed martial arts over the past few months reached its highest level of attention in years, yet the sport’s most accomplished American woman was stuck in a holding pattern until last week. “We went through probably seven or eight that I know of just for this fight,” says Tara LaRosa, [...]