(Jake Shields is ready to go and tired of waiting. Props: All Elbows)

- Brett Rogers outweighs Fedor by more than thirty pounds. (MMA Weekly)

- Cung Le returns to Strikeforce on Dec. 19. (MMA Fanhouse)

- CBS stations to air "Fight Camp: 360." (MMA Payout)

- Neal Taflinger spends two days with/near Fedor Emelianenko. (Fight Magazine)

- Is Brett Rogers shouldering too much of the PR load? (Cage Writer)

- Aoki attending Strikeforce, may fight there in 2010. (Sherdog)

- Stefan Struve gets new UFC contract. (Fighters Only)

- Shields vs. Miller preview. (Bleacher Report)

- Robot hands are the wave of the terrifying future. (Asylum)

- Movie about being a man: Bull Durham. (Ask Men)

- Chad Ochocinco pranks the Ravens defense. (Scores Report)

- A flowchart to determine how you should spend your last $20. (Holy Taco)

- 25 awesome fast food toys. (Screen Junkies)

- Tony Stewart fan fail. (All Left Turns)

- Marry a smart girl, live longer. (Made Man)

- Brutal punch combo ends high school fight. (Nothing Toxic)

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Just when you think ESPN is beginning to get a handle on this MMA stuff, it becomes clear that some of their on-air talent simply equate it with over-the-top violence.  University of New Mexico soccer player Elisabeth Lambert is, just for the record, obviously not to be trifled with, but just because she punches, elbows, kicks, and pulls the hair of opposing players from the BYU squad, that does not make her an MMA fighter.  It just makes her the kind of girl we’d love to party with.

Since ESPN seems as if they need some help distinguishing between general acts of violence and the sport of mixed martial arts, we thought we’d go ahead and offer a brief tutorial…

Okay, maybe some explanation is in order...

(Props: valetudows via MMA Mania)

He's back, and he wants his belt back. In this UFC 106 promo clip, Tito Ortiz says he plans on rebuilding himself towards the light-heavyweight title one fight at time, starting with his upcoming rematch against Forrest Griffin. "Can he withstand the pound...and pound...and poundage that I'm gonna do on him?" Ortiz asks in his usual eloquent style. "I ain't lookin' for submissions, I'm gonna look for hurtin' him." Probably the most interesting part of this clip is the footage at 1:36-1:46 of Griffin storming out of the Octagon following his loss to Anderson Silva, which wasn't shown in the original UFC 101 broadcast; Ortiz didn't think that was too cool, by the way. At the end, Tito stares into the camera, breaking the fourth-wall: "I'm willing to die for my cause. Are yuh?"

(Brett Rogers is going to miss this world, and everything in it.)

With Strikeforce on CBS -- which we'll be liveblogging, naturally -- just a day away, we put the meager power of our two brains together to see if we can't figure out a thing or two about what's going to happen when Fedor Emelianenko and Brett Rogers get their scrap on in Chicago, and what it will all mean once it's over.

What would Brett Rogers have to do to convince you that he's the best heayweight in the world?  Is simply winning enough?

BF: No, sad as it is to admit, beating the world’s best heavyweight would not be enough.  If Rogers were to throw one big right hand that knocked Emelianenko out cold and left his entourage of bearded priests and shady hangers-on with their mouths agape, by the time he made it to the post-fight press conference people would already be whispering the dreaded f-word – fluke.  My gut tells me Rogers wouldn’t really give a damn.  He’d take his check and his undefeated record and publicly declare that both us and our rankings can all kiss his ass, and I wouldn’t blame him one bit.