Bryan Baste | Staff Writer MMA is as popular as ever with the UFC being one of the biggest sporting associations in the US. With tons of videos with fighters like Sean Strickland, Connor Mcgregor, and Israel Adesanya getting millions of views and fights quickly being the most talked about sporting event that weekend. This […]
Martina Brady / Staff Writer Florida legislators passed a bill in the State House preventing transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ competitive sports on the high school and collegiate levels. HB 1475, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, would limit participation in sports based on biological sex. The bill would require schools to […]
Guethshina Altena // Asst. Sports Director The University’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club first started in 2011 with two students: Ricky Semiglia and his friend Andrea. “My friend Andrea and I just wanted to find a place to train on campus,” Semiglia said. “We had to get signatures of people who were interested, but we didn’t […]
Kristen King // Contributing Writer Budokon, a fairly new workout craze, combines two essential exercise regimens into one: yoga and mixed martial arts. Its purpose is to work out the body and mind, but also to evoke the “way of the warrior spirit” from each one of its students. Here at FIU, Budokon began as […]
