VICE SPORTS

Explaining Alistair Overeem's Muscle Burnout

Last Saturday night, kickboxer Alistair Overeem got knocked out standing up by Antonio "Bigfoot." We talked to Dr. Michael Kelly, a part-time ringside doctor, to explain how someone who looks like the comic-book portrait of health and vitality could collapse so suddenly and with so little resistance. Full story

Olympic Medalist Danny Kass Tried to Teach Me to Snowboard

I’m one of those pretend-athletes. I go to the gym four or five times a week, but I have zero coordination. I “race” on a stationary bike to the imaginary scenery that the spinning studio so thoughtfully plasters on the back of the wall. I actually caused what seems to be permane… Full story

The Mercy Rule

Why Breitbart Sports Will Fail, I Hope

It’s only fitting that after a career spent treating politics like a long football game between Black Nazi Communists and the Founding Fathers, Andrew Breitbart has posthumously lent his name to a sports-news website. Full story

Fightland

Ottavia Bourdain: My Jiu-Jitsu Addiction

When I first enrolled at the Renzo Gracie Academy in New York City I would hear people say how Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a way of life, how it made them better human beings, how they wouldn’t ever stop or trade it for anything else. I thought these people were a little crazy. Full story

Italica

Three Days of War

Historical Florentine Football is an extremely violent sport that originated with the birth of Florence itself. Father to both soccer and rugby, it is played by "calcianti": men, mostly from Florence, who play for honor, glory, and passion. Nobody gets a penny. Full story

Your Super Bowl Questions, Answered

Something called the “Super Bowl” is happening this weekend. What a crazy name, right? Sounds like what Super Man smokes when he wants to get stoned! Nah, just joshin’ with you—the Super Bowl is a football game! But what's football? Full story

Racism in MMA

In this promotional video spotlighting Rashad Evans before his fight this weekend against Rogerio Nogueira, the voices serving both as the source of Evans’s disenchantment with MMA and his inspiration to improve in it aren’t just criticizing the fighter’s character—they’re critic… Full story

Super Bowl Media Day… On Acid!

As you may or may not know, tripping balls while in the middle of a gaggle of reporters shouting questions two inches away from your ears is the ninth circle of hell. On the other hand, I did get to talk to Artie Lange. Full story

Notes from a Hitter: How Football Battered My Brain

It wasn’t until months after I played my last football game that the ramifications of the multiple concussions I suffered began to surface. The day after a long night of senior-year boozing, I came to in the back of an ambulance, flailing about as a firefighter struggled to hold… Full story

Power Moves by Karl Welzein

How to Rock It for the Supes' Celebraish

If you’re not some piece of trash, you like to keep it rockin’ for the Supes'. It’s pretty much the biggest celebraish of the year for the USA. Last year was so off the chain. I made my Captain Karl’s Pizza Dip (special recipe). It’s kind of a tradish. Kicked up with bold flavors… Full story

Clean Zones and Cabbies: How the Super Bowl Screws New Orleans Part 2

A recent lawsuit has resulted in free speech being restored in the giant "Clean Zone" around the Superdome, but the Super Bowl is still causing hardship for many, including food truck owners and cabbies. Full story

Getting Fresh with Wilbert

My Favorite Sneaker Campaigns

There was a time in my life when I lusted after obscure sneakers like a dog in heat. A big part of my appetite for sneakers was a result of the brilliant campaigns. Here are a few of my favorites. Full story

Fightland Show

Fightland Meets - Ariel Helwani

Ariel Helwani, the self-made and self-styled "voice of MMA," overcame loneliness, introversion, and UFC reluctance to become one of the most recognizable faces in mixed martial arts journalism. Full story

The Mercy Rule

The Lakers' Unreality Show

There’s a certain ugly thrill in watching these Lakers fail, but it’s not a lot of fun—it’s tough to take much joy from watching all these great players playing so poorly and unhappily, even with the leavening knowledge that their ill-tempered awfulness is probably preventing Jac… Full story