From Esquire, meet Dana White, the King of Mixed Martial Arts: With the UFC, he has turned a bloody fringe sport into a $1 billion empire — but not without stopping at Pinkberry. From National Affairs, the health of baseball concerns all of America, and the health of ­America — perhaps especially the American family — finds itself reflected in the state of our national pastime. Baseball’s Fall Classic may not match the Super Bowl for ratings or popularity, but when it comes to American sporting nostalgia, the World Series has no peers. A review of Onward Christian Athletes: Turning Ballparks into Pulpits and Players into Preachers by Tom Krattenmaker (and more). Football and the brain need a divorce: Evidence is mounting that the game's violence is shortening players' lives. Football pared to its bare essentials:

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