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UFC fighters react to Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson's viral bench brawl

UFC 315 is being held at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday night. A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena will headline the mixed martial arts pay-per-view. Before the fighters go to war in Quebec, Sportsnet took the opportunity to have some of the stars on the […]

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UFC 315 is being held at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday night. A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Belal Muhammad and Jack Della Maddalena will headline the mixed martial arts pay-per-view.

Before the fighters go to war in Quebec, Sportsnet took the opportunity to have some of the stars on the card react to a much different fight that took place in the Bell Centre just a couple of weeks ago. The masters of boxing and grappling sat down and watched the Game 3 bench brawl between Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson in the Capitals-Canadiens first-round playoff series.

The two power forwards had one of the most viral moments of the first round as they wrestled and punched each other on the bench as NHL linesman Kyle Flemington held on for dear life, trying to separate the pair.

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Aiemann Zahabi: Lacrosse is our national sport, they fight. Hockey’s our national sport, they fight. How could you not love fighting in Canada? Don’t take our kindness for weakness in Canada, boys.

Jasmine Jasudavicius: A good bench brawl.

Alexa Grasso: Oooh.

Belal Muhammad: Oh, that ref’s right in the middle of it. That ref’s trying to be Dana White.

Jack Della Maddalena: Oh, they’re getting into it in the player’s box thing.

Brad Katona: No punches yet.

Belal Muhammad: They got some good grappling, okay.

Alexa Grasso: They’re angry.

Brad Katona: Oh, no. There’s the punches.

Jasmine Jasudavicius: They’re going.

Jack Della Maddalena: That is cool.

Belal Muhammad: How come nobody else is jumping in? Ayy, that’s epic.

Jack Della Maddalena: That’d be the best game to go to, right?

Alexa Grasso: And now all the team is fighting.

Belal Muhammad: I would go to a hockey game for that. The one we went to there was, like, no fights.

Jasmine Jasudavicius: It’s so crazy that I learned that there’s, like a lot more technique to it than people really know.

Sportsnet then asked some of the fighters if they thought they could ever fight on skates.

“I don’t think so,” former UFC Women’s Flyweight Champion Alexa Grasso said. “I wouldn’t risk.”

“These guys kind of went on the bench area, women’s flyweight fighter Jasmine Jasudavicius added. “Maybe if I’m there.”

The lone fighter critical of the technique shown in the clip was the Canadian-born Brad Katona. Katona is scheduled for a bantamweight clash with Kazakh fighter Bekzat Almakhan on the preliminary card.

“Expecting more punches, and then the guy still had his gloves on,” Katona said. “I was like, ‘Ah, come on, man.’ I’m not gonna give them advice on fighting, but I’d take off the puffy gloves.”

Wilson and Anderson’s brawl isn’t the first Capitals-related instance that UFC fighters have reacted to. Last summer, a group watched a clip of Alex Ovechkin knocking out a rookie Andrei Svechnikov during the 2019 playoffs.

“They’re just holding and throwing,” Muhammad said then. “Nonchalant about it. Oh, that was Ovechkin! Oh, this guy’s rocked. You should’ve never stepped up. Hockey fights are worse than Power Slap.”

UFC 315’s main card is set to kick off at 10 pm on Saturday. The Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes will likely have wrapped up Game 3 in their second-round series by then unless the 6 pm puck drop goes deep into multiple overtimes.

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Former Seattle Mariners superstar and Baseball Hall of Famer Randy Johnson is going viral for his role in a now-famous Tik-Tok trend. To be honest, we don’t quite get the whole thing either, but the trend involves people asking those in their lives if they wish they were athletic. Johnson was asked the question by […]

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Former Seattle Mariners superstar and Baseball Hall of Famer Randy Johnson is going viral for his role in a now-famous Tik-Tok trend.

To be honest, we don’t quite get the whole thing either, but the trend involves people asking those in their lives if they wish they were athletic. Johnson was asked the question by his daughter, and the bit went on for 90 seconds, and you can watch the whole thing unfold:

Johnson spent parts of 10 seasons with the Mariners, going 130-74 in that time. He had been acquired in 1989 via a trade with the Montreal Expos and stayed until he was traded in 1998. He had a 3.42 lifetime ERA in Seattle, tossing 19 shutouts and 51 complete games. The most intimidating pitcher of his era, he had 2,162 strikeouts with Seattle in 1838.1 innings. He helped lead the M’s to their first playoff appearance in 1995, going 18-2 and winning the American League Cy Young. He also went 20-4 in 1997.

He was inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame in 2012. He’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but he’ll have his No. 51 retired by the Mariners in a ceremony in 2026.

And yes, we think he was plenty athletic.

As for the current Mariners, they are 55-48 and in second place in the American League West. They are taking on the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night with first pitch coming at 6:38 p.m. PT.

Bryan Woo will pitch against Jose Soriano.

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A Wellington alum has dominated girls’ flag football in South Florida for the past four years and capped off her high school career with a shout-out from ESPN and several major outlets for her arm and skills. WATCH BELOW: ‘He saw that I had an arm, and he was like, […]

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A Wellington alum has dominated girls’ flag football in South Florida for the past four years and capped off her high school career with a shout-out from ESPN and several major outlets for her arm and skills.

WATCH BELOW: ‘He saw that I had an arm, and he was like, ‘You’re my girl,'” Ava Hanson says

Wellington High School alum Ava Hanson goes viral for her skills

The name Ava Hanson rings bells in the flag football world. In her senior season at Wellington High School, she threw for 4,000 yards and 62 touchdowns.

Numbers that compare to NFL greats like Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.

As a kid, Hanson shined bright on the diamond.

“I had been playing softball my whole life,” said Hanson.

While softball was her first sport, she quit, and in typical mom fashion, it was her mother who made a life-changing move — enrolling her daughter in flag football.

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“My mom signed me up randomly for a rec league, and my rec coach was also my high school coach. He saw that I had an arm, and he was like, ‘You’re my girl,'” said Hanson.

Her coach was right; she graduated from Wellington High School last spring, but before leaving, she threw for 4,000 yards, 62 touchdowns, and won a district and regional title.

Oh, and she also had a viral moment when she threw a dime to her wide receiver for a touchdown in a video with millions of views on TikTok.

“When I woke up in the morning, it was posted, and I saw that it had 2 million views. I was shocked,” said Hanson.

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While she was shocked, she became an overnight celebrity.

“At work, people would recognize me for being on the news, and they saw the video, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger,” said Hanson. “It got to the point where people I hadn’t talked to in years started sending me the video.”

While a person’s memory may fade, videos on the internet are forever.

Hanson, a South Florida flag football legend, now turns towards college, where she will be playing at Hendrix College in Arkansas.

“I decided on Hendricks, because not only the coaching, but when I visited, it was like a family there,” said Hanson. “I wanted to be a part of a team that is also like a family.”

While Hendrix will be your family on the gridiron, we’re also your family in Florida and rooting for you every step of the way, Ava.

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Savannah Bananas Star Goes Viral After Failed CNN Stunt

It’s human nature to laugh when you see another human being eat s***. Something primal unlocks in you. You don’t want them to be hurt, of course. But you can’t help but chuckle a little if someone, say, flips over their handlebars and lands on their butt. It can also be funnier if the thing […]

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It’s human nature to laugh when you see another human being eat s***. Something primal unlocks in you. You don’t want them to be hurt, of course. But you can’t help but chuckle a little if someone, say, flips over their handlebars and lands on their butt. It can also be funnier if the thing they screw up involves them trying to show off. You’re watching a person attempt something super cool, and they just blow it in the most brutal way possible. But, like, if they nailed it, you would have cheered just as easily as you laughed. I’m talking about the dude from the Savannah Bananas who botched a backflip on CNN.

His name is Robert Anthony Cruz, and he is known as Coach Rac on the Savannah Bananas. The Bananas are a traveling baseball team that is more like the Harlem Globetrotters than the New York Yankees. They play baseball filled with dancing, acrobatics, stilts, and some impressive social media stunts. Retired MLB players and celebrities, such as John Cena, will make surprise appearances. It’s a good time and brings more attention to a game that I love. As does attempting a backflip and landing right on your face.

I was rushing up the main stairs in my Freshman year of high school and fell right at the top, as classes were getting out, and “everyone” saw. There were laughs, but I immediately pumped my fists in the air, as if I had done it on purpose, and was able to control that laughter. People were ready to be on my side because I had owned my mistake. That’s what’s going on with Coach Rac as well. Below, you can watch the video, which he has posted to his own Instagram like a boss.

Ouch! Like, that’s a brutal fail! Still, telling everyone that they “have [his] permission to laugh” is the way to roll with it. Coach Rac even took it a step further by releasing a second video where he discussed the incident, showed off his wounds, and noted that he felt bad for the anchors. “I was pretty confused. My mic pack fell out of my pocket, my shoe flew off of my foot. I don’t even know how that happened. I feel bad for the news anchors because they just sat there like, Ok, we’re not supposed to laugh, but oh my gosh, that was funny,” Cruz told his fans in the video. “They just had to carry on.”

I was familiar with the Savannah Bananas, but Coach Rac has turned me into a fan. He could have easily tried to pretend this whole thing didn’t happen! Instead, he’s leaning in and making the most of his moment. May every backflip he hits going forward get the recognition it deserves.

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