I just picked up the Dr. Dre Beats headphones by Monster Cable and I must say my feelings are mixed on these bad boys.

The Good:

The case they come in! Nic can back me up and say the case is awesome, it is shaped like a football and on a rainy day could take the place of your pigskin if you lose it.

The low end bass is spectacular, if you are an introvert and do not like hitting the clubs but want to feel like you are in one then pick these up.

The comfort level on these is off the charts, I would think between the ear cups and the amp in the headphones my ears would get hot but they do not. I could see myself wearing these on a flight for many hours without a problem.

THEY ARE LOUD, they apparently go as high as 115dbs which is just absurd. To test we put the headphones on a table and turned the source up to full volume and we could hear them from across the room.

The Bad:

They make music that is encoded poorly sound really bad. You will need minimum to rip at 320kb or possibly lossless to really hear these things go. I am on the fence if these headphones do the trick for anything but R&B, Hip Hop and Drum and Bass. Like I said before these headphones bring the club to your head.

Sign me up for Foreigner!

Aleksander With - "The Other Side"

Elvira Nikolaisen - "Love I Can't Defend"

Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is"

HIM - "Killing Loneliness"

Leonard Cohen - "Famous Blue Raincoat"

Margaret Berger - "Samantha"

Maria Mena - "Just Hold Me"

New Kids on the Block - "Step by Step"

The Offspring - "All I Want"

The Proclaimers - "Letter From America"

Santogold - "L.E.S. Artistes"

Shakin' Stevens - "This Ole House"

Surferosa - "Saturday Night"

Toni Braxton - "Un-break My Heart"

It is official.

Andrei Arlovski against Fedor Emelianenko.

Katja and Gro are professional handball players and apparently are dating. Robbie Williams stumbled upon this in the great video below.



Thanks to Sportswrap for the picture.

Watch out England cause Keith Jardine and Brandon Vera are coming for you.

The fight has been announced by Keith on a radio show in New Mexico recently and I must say this one to me is nearly a wash. I think vegas odds will give Vera the edge, but Keith is an odd one. He fights with no fear and holds his hands like a monkey. I expect this fight to be nothing but standup which to me is great because with Leben and Bisping and this fight you are guaranteed to see a knockout

Elite XC Weigh Ins are Friday...it will be open to the public and frankly do we think anyone will be there?

According to Anderson Silva's Manager/Translator Ed Soares "That sounds great a€¦ I think GSP is an incredible fighter. But I think GSP needs to prove himself. He still hasn't had a successful title defense [at 170 pounds]. I don't really feel that he deserves (a fight against Anderson Silva fight) yet. Go defend your title a few times and then we'll talk."

I totally agree.

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Madden NFL 09 just looks incredible. Here is the latest video Reinvented!

Here are the salary numbers for Affliction Banned. I assume Fedor got a share of the revenue generated by the PPV event because 300,000 makes no sense.

Fight Night Salaries are in...and can anyone believe how much Brandon Vera made?

Anderson Silva - $200,000

James Irvin - $20,000

Silva defeated Irvin via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Brandon Vera - $200,000 ($100,000 to show, $100,000 to win)

Reese Andy - $15,000

Vera defeated Andy via unanimous decision

Frank Edgar - $26,000 ($13,000 to show, $13,000 to win)

Hermes Franca - $17,000

Edgar defeated Franca via unanimous decision

Cain Velasquez - $14,000 ($7,000 to show, $7,000 to win)

Jake O'Brien - $11,000

Velasquez defeated O'Brien via technical knockout (strikes) in round one

Kevin Burns - $10,000 ($5,000 to show, $5,000 to win)

Anthony Johnson - $9,000

Burns defeated Johnson via technical knockout in round three

CB Dollaway - $20,000 ($10,000 to show, $10,000 to win)

Jesse Taylor - $8,000

Dollaway defeated Taylor via submission (choke) in round one

Tim Credeur - $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 to win)

Cale Yarbrough - $8,000

Credeur defeated Yarbrough via technical knockout in round one

Rory Markham - $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 to win)

Brodie Farber - $3,000

Markham defeated Farber via knockout (head kick) in round one

Nate Loughran - $8,000 ($4,000 to show, $4,000 to win)

Johnny Rees - $4,000

Loughran defeated Rees via submission (triangle choke) in round one

Brad Blackburn - $10,000 ($5,000 to show, $5,000 to win)

James Giboo - $3,000

Blackburn defeated Giboo via technical knockout (strikes) in round two

Shannon Gugerty - $6,000 ($3,000 to show, $3,000 to win)

Dale Hartt - $3,000

Gugerty defeated Hartt via submission (rear naked choke) in round one

We here at the Muffin stop at nothing to make sure the Yard gets the best MMA coverage possible. Hit the jump for the Live Blog of Affliction Banned.

6:15 p.m. JJ is taking a beating with Mike on his back. With both hooks in JJ is simply stuck taking damage. Read Naked choke finish with Mike Pyle taking it easily.

I am pumped for this weekend of fights and thought I would share what I think the top 5 fights will be. Please post your lists or respond below.

I gotta hand it to Paul DePodesta. For being a guy who has ridden Billy Beane's coat tails right into sunny San Diego he puts together one heck of a blog. At the link below he discusses what went in to deciding that Brian Giles is unavailable at the trade deadline and what his plans are for the team moving forward.

Thanks for scoresreport for the inside scoop. Pics after the jump.