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KNUCKLE UP #301: JBJ, Penis Pills, McG v Diaz, UFC 202 + The Full-Blown Breakdown of the Business of Sports Entertainment!

Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to a fairly complex breakdown of the reverse conspiracy of UFC 202, which is to say: is it a conspiracy if everybody but one person knows? Is it a prank? Has someone been punched? Is that someone you? Just to be clear for those Hibernian nut jumpers: McG actually WON this fight, so this is not about that. This is about just about everything else. Including penis pills purportedly consumed [allegedly] by JONNY BONEY JONEY. Easily confused fans need not apply.

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IN Round #301, EUGENE S. ROBINSON [with the "S" standing for "SUSPICIOUS MINDS"], goes as deep as humanly possible into the undergirding of what happens when the twin engines of business and entertainment make mincemeat out of sports and who benefits, who doesn't and what it all means. Vis a vis? UFC 202. Well, this and penis pills.

And for the listener ON THE GO? The KNUCKLE UP TIME LINE.

1] 7:01: WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT WHEN YOU'RE DEAD BUT YOU'RE STILL WALKING + TALKING?

2] 8:52: THE BALD ONE + HIM HAVING YOU WHERE HE WANTS YOU?

3] 30:34: MONEY IS JUST THE CHEAP SEAT RATIONALE

4] 41:00: RUSSIA ALWAYS WINS

5] 41:30: DONALD TRUMP: FRIEND OF THE NEGROES!

6] 41:35: VIDEO, AND A GUN, KILLED THE RADIO STAR

7] 41: 37: CRAZY TALKING, CRAZY WALKING

Eugene S. Robinson host of Knuckle Up and author of Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ass-Kicking but Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking [Harper Collins], A LONG SLOW SCREW[Robotic Boot] and a play called THE INIMITABLE SOUNDS OF LOVE; A THREESOME IN FOUR ACTS [Southern] also sings for a band called OXBOW and appeared in Bill Cosby's Leonard Part 6 (and yes, a Cosby story is in the works), a Miller Genuine Draft commercial, and had his own TV show in Germany called? "The Eugene Robinson Show."

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