MMA Fighter Mysteriously Dies After Fight Is Called [Tyrone Mims]

Tyrone Mims (pictured right) was a 30-year-old amatuer mixed martial artist and father of five, participating in an event in South Carolina Saturday night when midway through the second round of his fight, officials called the match. According to Richard Seidlitz (In an apparently exclusive interview with ABC NEWS 4), who is producing a reality show featuring Mims, he looked to get suddenly "gassed," prompting the referee's intervention.

"The ref asked all the clarity questions to make sure the fighter was ok. He answered perfectly fine. He smiled, he said 'yeah I'm just tired, that's it.'"

Seidlitz says after they brought Mims out of the ring, his condition seemed to deteriorate. They called in the medics to look at him and then the doctor and then EMTs but Seidlitz says Mims just kept getting worse.

But no one seems to know why.

According to Seidlitz, he did not take any blows or suffer any injury that would result in the symptoms he exhibited. He was taken to the Medical University Hospital and later pronounced dead.

The event was apparently streaming online, however the feed was taken down and the rest of the event stopped. In all, approximately three of the 13 matches scheduled were completed.

According to the deputy coroner Dottie Lindsay, the cause of death is unknown but an autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

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Friends of MMA fighter Tyrone Mims come together for family [ABC News 4]
Coroner: MMA fighter died after Mount Pleasant bout [Post and Courier]

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Marvin Lewis Called Rex Ryan To Beg Him Not To Use Tebow In The Wildcat [Tebowmania]

Aug 11, 2012 11:25 AM  

This little nugget comes buried in the fourth paragraph of a preseason game writeup.

Ryan received a call at 7 in the morning the day before the game from Bengals coach Marvin Lewis, who was on the same staff with Ryan in Baltimore, with a plea: Don't run the Wildcat with Tebow.

The Jets obliged Lewis and Tebow did a serviceable job pretending he was a real quarterback under center for two quarters. But, why in the world would Marvin Lewis not want the Jets to run the wildcat? Is it not the point of preseason games to learn and prepare for the regular season, without all the drama of things like losses and crippling wildcat plays actually meaning anything?

Maybe Marvin Lewis is ahead of the curve, though. Maybe he's got some super secret wildcat defense he does not want the world to see. Whatever the reason, it worked. The Bengals, despite what ESPN will tell you, beat the New York Tebows 17-6.

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Tim Tebow dazzles with his legs during debut for NY Jets in preseason opener against Bengals [NY Daily News]

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Kyle Lowry Has His Own Juice Drink And It Is Called Famjuice [Kyle Lowry]

Aug 4, 2012 2:27 PM  

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry is trying his hand at entrepreneurship by releasing his own line of juice drinks. What makes Famjuice special, you ask? I don't know, but the tagline at Famjuice.com reads, "Reflavor your taste!" which means, uh, something.

Famjuice is currently available for purchase in Philadelphia (Lowry's home town), and Lowry has made it his personal mission to ensure that everyone in the Philly area gets a taste.

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In What He Called His "Last Individual Swim Ever," Michael Phelps Just Earned Another Gold Medal [London Olympics]

Aug 3, 2012 3:25 PM  

Michael Phelps just added to his Olympic-record medal total by winning the 100-meter butterfly in 51.21 seconds, touching the wall ahead of South Africa's Chad Le Clos and Russia's Evgeny Korotyshkin, who tied for second (51.44). As he approached the turn, Phelps looked like he was in trouble. That's him in Lane 4, in next-to-last place:

But Phelps pretty much erased the deficit by the time has was halfway down the homestretch:

That makes 17 career golds, and 21 total medals for Phelps. Afterward, Phelps told the BBC that this was his "last individual swim ever." All that's left is the 4 x 100 medley relay, the finals of which will be tomorrow.

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