Yael Grauer is a freelance writer who’s been working with independent media since 1996. She writes regularly for Sherdog, and her work has been featured in Ultimate MMA magazine, T-Nation, Experience Life, Bitch magazine, and the Performance Menu: Journal of Health and Athletic Excellence, where she also serves as the Managing Editor. Yael trains in Brazilian jiu jitsu. Find her on the web at yaelwrites.com

We’re back with another recap of the latest episode of the Ultimate Fighter: Here’s the awards for the week: Most Ironic Moment: Dominick Cruz giving Tickle some tough love in the hallway following his loss to Joe Proctor. Faber told Tickle to keep his chin up because he did well, and this seemed to set [...]

The epsiode begins with Anistávio Gasparzinho grating on people’s nerves by playing around… wearing a ski mask, grappling the statue of a dog, squirting silly string everywhere, and basically keeping everyone up all night by making noise. He gets locked out of the house and makes more noise until he is let back in. He even [...]

The 9th event of MMA Playground’s 12th season is in the books, and our team picks were 8-4. As a team, we correctly called the following winners: John Maguire, Brian Stann, Simeon Thoreson, Siyar Bahadurzada, Brad Pickett, Reza Madadi, Alexander Gustafsson and Cyrille Diabate. We were wrong about Abedi vs. Head, Cedenblad vs. Barmont, Siver vs. [...]

Episode 6 of the Ultimate Figher Live is in the books. The teams were tied after Chiesa defeated  Larsen in Episode 5, and Team Faber’s Joe Proctor is getting ready to face Team Cruz’s Chris Tickle. Apparently Tickle was drunk during the Chiesa/Larsen fight, and is getting on everyone’s nerves, including Dominick Cruz. Cruz changes [...]

The California State Athletic Commission has passed an amendment that would allow for therapeutic use exemptions for marijuana and TRT, according to an article on SI.com. Both marijuana and testosterone are currently banned by the CSAC. In order to become law, the amendment would need to be approved by the Department of Consumer Affairs and [...]

In the wake of the tragic accident that occurred on April 1st, Ryron and Rener Gracie explain exactly how Stephen Arceneaux III was choked to death by his 100-lb. 14-year-old younger cousin. Props to them for drawing attention to this seriousness of this situation, and providing information on how to prevent this from occurring in [...]

The 3rd episode of TUF Brazil begins with a short recap of the 2nd episode, and picks up where that episode left off; with morale high amidst Team Vitor members. Belfort is trying to decide who will fight in the next fight, and says that when his team members want to fight is important to [...]

The fifth episode of the Ultimate Fighter begins where last week leaves off; with Team Faber celebrating Ioquinta’s victory over Jury, and Team Cruz trying to maintain high spirits and soldier on. The best moment of integrity goes out to Sam Sicilia, who refuses to tell Dominick Cruz the ins and outs of his best [...]

Last week was the first episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil, in which 16 fights took place to see who made it into the house. The second episode of the show aired on TUF.tv at 10:30 Central. First, the teams were picked. Wanderlei Silva won the coin toss and elected to pick the first fighter, [...]

The April 2012 Unified Women’s MMA rankings for April have been released, Notable changes include Ronda Rousey moving into the number one slot in the bantwamweight division, and Kaufman moving up to the top contender slot. In the flyweight division, previously number-one ranked Tara LaRosa and number two-ranked Rosi Sexton have both been removed due [...]

With the Ultimate Fighter being live, there’s just not a whole lot going on other than the build-up for the live fight, and then the selection for the following week’s fight. So most of the episode was a lead up to Myles Jury vs. Al Iaquinta. There was a quick aside, though: Mike Rio injured [...]

According to MiddleEasy.com (where we found this video), Marco Filho is an accomplished journalist in Brazil. And apparently he has some good MMA skillz as well, because he totally landed a takedown on Bones. Pretty cool. Apparently he “competes” against MMA fighters, giving them 2 3-minute rounds to end the fight using their signature move. [...]

The very first episode of Ultimate Fighter: Brazil is now in the books, and despite some bad subtitles (hint: mate leone is a rear naked choke, not a “neck crank), many great fights took place. But seriously. The subtitles were really bad. “It was a very balanced fight.” You mean even? *Sigh.* The good news [...]

Here’s what we learned from the last episode of TUF: Both these teams are pretty bad at pranks. Putting tape on posters of Cruz to make him look like Eddie Munster? This probably could’ve been better accomplished with a Sharpie and a bit of artistry. Putting a so-called thong on Urijah’s butt-chin? Maybe work a [...]

We interviewed Courtnie Korpela before she gave Brandon Han his long-awaited rematch on Tosh.0…but, just in case you missed it, here is the clip. Tosh.0Get More: Tosh.0 Videos,Daniel Tosh,Web Redemption