Brian Martin

2 weeks ago | pressenterprise.com | Brian Martin

Aaron Pico ‘starving to show’ what he can do in the UFC The former St. John Bosco High wrestling star fulfills a lifelong dream by signing with the premier MMA promotion

2 weeks ago | ocregister.com | Brian Martin

Before he was even a teenager, Aaron Pico would sit with his father in the backyard of their Whittier home and regale him with his dreams. “I’d just tell him that I want to be in the UFC one day and a UFC champion. I want to be boxing. Like, I can do it, you know?” Pico remembered in a phone interview Tuesday night. “And my dad would be like, ‘Of course, son, you can do it. You just keep working hard.”But first came combat sports reality, with its set of peaks and valleys.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Brian Martin

Thanks to "Dallas Day" and the players the Dallas Cowboys are bringing in for their league allotted 30 pre-draft visits, more and more information is rolling in as to which players have piqued their interest in the 2025 NFL Draft set to kick off later this month (April 24-26). With that information, we can more accurately predict their potential draft selections. AdvertisementToday, we attempt to predict what the team would view as being an ideal draft haul in the first three rounds.

1 month ago | ocregister.com | Brian Martin

INGLEWOOD — So much for the rap that Dodgers fans show up late for games. The first “Let’s go, Dodgers!’” chant started about 2:20 a.m. outside the shared reality venue known as Cosm. While the Dodgers were preparing to start their season against the Chicago Cubs nearly 5,500 miles away in Tokyo at 7 p.m. local time Tuesday, hundreds of hardcores lined along District Drive in Inglewood, at a dark and brisk 50 degrees, for what many believed was the next best thing to being there.

2 months ago | ocregister.com | Brian Martin

For every Tatiana Suarez fight, there seems to be a collective inhale. And then the air sits, held hostage in everyone’s lungs. It’s not just how the undefeated UFC strawweight will perform. The tension and uncertainty are in the whether. Suarez’s life has been a Sisipyhean struggle to the top, her pursuit for combat sports greatness frequently derailed by physical issues beyond her control.