WIFL HAS TEAMED UP WITH WASUP GIRLZ TACKLE FOOTBALL LEAGUE!!!

For Immediate Release FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Women’s Indoor Football League Carla C. Williams, MBA
Email: cwilliams@wiflfootball.com
Phone: 702.265.0605

Women’s Indoor Football League to Support WASUP Girlz Tackle Football League…

WIFL HAS TEAMED UP WITH WASUP GIRLZ TACKLE FOOTBALL LEAGUE!!!

Las Vegas, NV – November 29, 2012 – – Commissioner Dion Lee of the Women’s Indoor Football League (WIFL) is making strides to bring awareness and notoriety to women’s sports by leading the movement for women’s tackle football. Since its launch in October 2012, WIFL has become an official supporter of the WASUP Girlz Tackle Football League. WASUP is a non-profit 503(c) corporation that was created to promote a full tackle girl’s football league focused on creating a positive, safe and fun environment for the girls who love to play football, much like the Pop Warner league for boys.
WASUP was founded by Commissioner Lee in early 2012 as part of his vision to develop a feeder program for the professional women’s leagues. The program will recruit and train young girls aged 8 to 18 to play football at a competitive level for little to no cost. With growing popularity of girl’s playing flag football, WASUP is giving those athletes an opportunity to increase their skill level and to be a part of the push for the girls to play tackle.
The WASUP program was pioneered in Las Vegas, Nevada with expectations to expand into 20 new markets in 2013. WIFL has adopted the opportunity to support the league’s growth and to follow the expansion footprint of the professional league. 
This concept has never been done before and is an aggressive move for WIFL to have sustainability by fostering a young pool of athletic talent from which to recruit. This will increase awareness across the U.S. and around the World of the movement for women to play a traditionally male-dominated contact sport, growing the fan support, and ultimately putting women’s football on the map.
WIFL’s commitment to the WASUP Girlz Tackle Football League is a portion of revenues generated through franchise sales and sponsorships. The proceeds will be used to subsidize the cost of player registration fees, uniforms, football gear, and travel. WIFL will be co-branded with WASUP as an official supporter of the non-profit.
About WASUP Girlz Tackle Football:
The league is divided into the Elementary Division (grades 3-5), Middle School Division (grades 6-8) and High School Division (grades 9-12) so that girl’s will play with their appropriate age groups. There are currently 12 teams in the Las Vegas/Henderson market that are looking for players. WASUP Girlz Tackle Football is open for online registration at http://www.wasupsports.com/ for the 2013 season.

For more information, contact Dion Lee at (702) 764-8878 or send an email to gftloflasvegas@yahoo.com. Interested sponsors and donors may also contact Carla Williams at (702) 265-0605 or send an email to cwilliams@wiflfootball.com.

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Fight Network Signs Deal with Xtreme Fighting Championships

via Fight Network on November 21, 2012

Toronto – Canada’s Fight Network, the world’s premier 24/7 television channel dedicated to complete coverage of combat sports, has announced a multi-year broadcast deal with the Florida-based Xtreme Fighting Championships.

Fight Network will broadcast 65 half-hour compilation shows from the promotion’s five-year history, featuring the likes of Chad Corvin, Ovince St. Preux, Rafaello Oliveira, Jamie Varner, Drew Fickett, Micah Miller, Kim Couture and Corey Hill.

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CLAUDIA GADELHA TO FACE CARLA ESPARZAIN FIRST-EVER INVICTA FC STRAWWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT

 

 

CLAUDIA GADELHA TO FACE CARLA ESPARZA

IN FIRST-EVER INVICTA FC

STRAWWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT

IN KANSAS CITY, SATURDAY, JAN. 5

 

TICKETS GO ON SALE MONDAY, NOV. 26 FOR STAR-STUDDED,

12 BOUT WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL MMA EVENT

ALSO FEATURING:

 

SHAYNA BASZLER VS. ALEXIS DAVIS

AMANDA NUNES VS. SARAH D’ALELIO

HIROKO YAMANAKA VS. EDIANE GOMES

JOANNE CALDERWOOD VS. BEC HYATT

LESLIE SMITH VS. TBA

 

PLUS KO ARTIST VERONICA ROTHENHAUSLER

TO MAKE PRO DEBUT VS. KATALINA MALUNGAHU

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Nov. 23, 2012) – Just three months after its first world championship bout, women’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Invicta Fighting Championships will return to Memorial Hall in Kansas City and crown a champion in its strawweight (115 pounds) division after undefeated sensation Claudia Gadelha (9-0) of Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil battles streaking star Carla Esparza (8-2) of Redondo Beach, Calif. for the title in the main event of a 12-bout fight card on Saturday, Jan. 5.

 

In the bantamweight (135 pounds) co-main event, crowd-pleasing submission ace Shayna
“The Queen of Spades” Baszler (15-7) of Sioux Falls, S.D. will go to war with fellow top-ranked star Alexis Davis (12-5) of Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.

 

Tickets, priced from $25, for the Invicta FC 4: Gadelha vs. Esparza women’s MMA event, go on sale Monday, Nov. 26 at Memorial Hall box office (913-549-4853), online at Ticketmaster.com and InvictaFC.com and by phone at 800-745-3000.

 

Following her second round (2:19) TKO (punches) of Kaitlin Young at Invicta FC 3 on Oct. 6, Leslie “The Peacemaker” Smith (4-2-1) of Pleasant Hill, Calif. will return to action to face a bantamweight opponent to be determined.

 

Power-punching KO artist Amanda “Lioness of the Ring” Nunes (7-2) of Salvador Bahia, Brazil will take on submission specialist Sarah “The Monster” D’Alelio (6-3) of San Jose, Calif. at bantamweight.

 

JEWELS star Hiroko Yamanaka (12-2) of Kisarazu, Japan will battle Invicta FC 3 winner Ediane Gomes (8-2) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. in a featherweight (145 pounds) contest.

 

In the event’s opening main card bout, undefeated Joanne Calderwood (4-0) of Glasgow, Scotland will square off with Invicta FC newcomer Bec Hyatt (4-1) of Brisbane, Australia at strawweight.

 

After scoring her second consecutive, five-second KO on July 8, Veronica Rothenhausler (0-0) of Reno, Nev. will make her much-anticipated professional debut on the Invicta FC 4 undercard against fellow heavy-handed featherweight competitor Katalina Malungahu (2-1) of Las Vegas, Nev.

 

 

Claudia Gadelha vs. Carla Esparza

 

Just 23 years old, Gadelha boasts three world championships and seven national titles in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition and has submitted seven of her first nine professional MMA opponents. An injury kept the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt sidelined for the entirety of 2011 but, on April 20, she returned to action, earning a unanimous decision win over Valerie Letorneau in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Gadelha returned to her homeland and scored a first round (1:35) TKO (punches) on Adriana Vieira on Sept. 21.

 

The 25-year-old Esparza has been gaining momentum, winning her last three fights. Her last two victories – a second round (4:28) TKO (punches) of Sarah Schneider and a first round (2:53) TKO (punches) of Lynn Alvarez – came inside the Invicta FC cage on July 28 and Oct. 6, respectively. To date, three of Esparza’s professional wins have come by way of (T)KO and three by way of submission.

 

Shayna Baszler vs. Alexis Davis

 

The 32-year-old Baszler lit up Memorial Hall for the second time on an Invicta FC show on Oct. 6, outworking D’Alelio on the ground and securing a rear-naked choke that forced D’Alelio to tap out at the :37 mark of the second round of their matchup. A fearsome grappler, Baszler has earned the respect of the fight world by earning 14 of her 15 victories with submissions, including her patented hold that she dubbed the “shwing.”

 

Davis, a 28-year-old black belt in both Japanese Jujutsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, has been ranked as high as the No. 3 bantamweight female fighter in the world by the Unified Women’s MMA Rankings. In her last effort at Invicta FC 2 on July 28, Davis submitted Japanese star Hitomi Akano with a rear-naked choke in the second round (3:41) of their matchup

 

Amanda Nunes vs. Sarah D’Alelio

 

Since making her pro debut in March 2008, Nunes has established a reputation as a ferocious power-puncher. The 24-year-old, who began her boxing training at age 16, exploded onto the national MMA scene in The U.S. on Jan. 7, 2011, demolishing Julia Budd with a barrage of punches just 14 seconds into their live, Showtime-televised fight. Nunes made her Invicta FC debut on July 28, submitting Raquel Pa’aluhi with a rear-naked choke in the first round (2:24) of their bout.

 

D’Alelio has competed on all three Invicta FC cards, thus far. The 31-year-old submission ace, who has earned five of her six wins by way of submission and the sixth by TKO, will look to return to the win column after a valiant performance against Baszler. D’Alelio forced Vanessa Mariscal to tap out from a barrage of punches in the second round (3:19) of their meeting at the historic, first Invicta FC event on April 28, and tapped out Vanessa Porto with a rear-naked choke in the first round (3:16) of their Invicta FC 2 bout.

 

 

Hiroko Yamanaka vs. Ediane Gomes

 

Nicknamed “Incomplete Queen” and “Cat’s Eye,” Yamanaka, is a former open weight champion in Japan’s now-defunct Smackgirl MMA promotion and the No. 7 ranked featherweight according to the Unified Women’s Mixed Martial Arts Rankings. The 34-year-old Muay Thai and submission grappling specialist, put together an eight-fight win streak between Nov. 2008 and July. 2011, and emerged a star in Japanese promotion JEWELS during that span.

 

Gomes is a 31-year-old submission expert and member of vaunted South Fla.-based fight squad American Top Team. Hardened in her native Brazil where amateur level competition is non-existent, Gomes was victorious in her first five professional fights – four by way of armbar submission and one via TKO (punches). At Invicta FC on Oct. 6, she forced the highly-touted Malungahu to tap out from a rear-naked choke in the first round (4:19) of their undercard bout.

 

Joanne Calderwood vs. Bec Hyatt

 

Calderwood is an explosive, 26-year-old national Muay Thai champion in Scotland, who has successfully transitioned to the sport of MMA by going unbeaten in her first four pro starts. On Oct. 6, she reeled off her fourth victory at Invicta FC 3, KO’ing Ashley Cummins with a brutal knee strike to the body in the first round (3:13) of their matchup. Calderwood’s performance earned her “KO of the Night” honors from the promotion.

 

Since suffering a defeat in her pro debut on Oct. 15, 2011, the 23-year-old Hyatt has been on fire, winning four consecutive fights. In her last start on Oct. 20, Hyatt, the first Australian competitor to sign with Invicta FC, finished Christina Nicole Tatnell just 37 seconds into their matchup with a flurry of punches.

 

The six-bout preliminary card will be capped off with an atomweight (105 pounds) matchup between Stephanie Frausto (4-4) of Cincinnati, Ohio and Cassie Rodish (3-3) of Des Moines, Iowa.

 

Unbeaten Tamikka Brents (1-0) of Springfield, Illin. will take on Amanda Bell (0-0) of Medford, Ore. at featherweight.

 

Jodie Esquibel (2-0) of Albuquerque, N.M. and Liz McCarthy (1-0) of Tigard, Ore. will square off at atomweight.

 

Emily Kagan (2-0) of Albuquerque, N.M. will put her undefeated record on the line against Rose Namajunas (0-0) of Milwaukee, Wis. In a strawweight matchup.

 

Paige Van Zant (2-0) of Sparks, Nev. will face off with Tecia Torres (1-0) of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. at strawweight.

 

About Invicta Fighting Championships:

 

Invicta Fighting Championships (www.invictafc.com) is a world championship Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight series dedicated to providing female athletes with a major platform to hone their skills on a consistent basis. Founded in 2012 by longtime MMA executive Shannon Knapp and sports aficionado Janet Martin, Invicta is committed to pioneering the future growth of women’s MMA by promoting the best possible matchups between female competitors and identifying and developing future superstars of the sport.

 

 

Contact:

 

Mike Afromowitz (917) 566-8754, mikea@yourwitzend.com

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Cabrera tale far-reaching There are plenty of good reasons why Miguel Cabrera should not have won the American League MVP award this season, but there is no doubt that the Venezuelan slugger is the man of the year in Major League Baseball. In a “Six Degrees of Miguel Cabrera” … Boston Herald • November 18, 2012, 2:53 AM (PST)

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Stanford seeks to slow Oregon, batter its quarterback STANFORD — David Shaw is realistic. The Stanford football coach knows his defense can’t be expected to stop the high-powered offense of No. 1 Oregon on Saturday. After watching hours of dizzying videotape the past two days, he just hopes the Ducks can… San Jose Mercury News • November 13, 2012, 9:57 PM (PST)

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Most likely Eagles not to return in 2013 REGARDLESS OF whether Andy Reid stays or goes – and if Big Red were a betting man, even he would bet the ranch on “goes” right now – there will be a lot of changes at One NovaCare Way in the offseason. Michael Vick: No matter who the Eagles’ … Philadelphia Daily News • November 13, 2012, 11:59 PM (PST)

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Cleveland State at Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The last time Michigan won three straight games by at least 30 points, the Wolverines went on to win the national championship. It’s a bit early for that kind of talk this season, but Tim Hardaway Jr. and his team are off to quite a… CBS Sports • November 13, 2012, 9:36 PM (PST)

 

Scouting report: Early look at the Rams A quick glance at the Rams (3-5-1), whom the Jets face Sunday in St. Louis: 1. Hey, they tied the 49ers on the road. That’s saying something. They beat the Redskins, Cards and Seahawks. The Rams are 9-3 against the Jets, who haven’t beaten them on the … ESPN • November 14, 2012, 1:39 AM (PST)

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Bears: Discretion or valor in bringing Cutler back? Bears coach Lovie Smith confirmed Jay Cutler likely suffered a concussion when Houston Texans linebacker Tim Dobbins drilled him in the facemask and knocked him to the ground in the second quarter Sunday night. So why did Cutler take seven more snaps … Chicago Sun-Times • November 13, 2012, 8:53 PM (PST)

 

3-point shot: Challenge for Big 12, SEC 1. Big 12 and SEC officials were working on the details of an event for next season similar to the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The SEC has 14 teams and the Big 12 has 10, so the SEC would rotate in 10 of its 14 to be involved in the matchup. Of course, to … ESPN • November 14, 2012, 1:54 AM (PST)

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Charges dropped against Vikings’ Peterson HOUSTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) — Charges of resisting arrest against Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson have been dismissed in Texas, his attorney said Tuesday. A Harris County, Texas, grand jury found no probable cause to charge the NFL’s leading… United Press International • November 13, 2012, 6:51 PM (PST)

 

No. 25 SDSU routs NAIA San Diego Christian 91-57 SAN DIEGO (AP) – Back ashore and back indoors, all was well again with No. 25 San Diego State. Two days after a 13-point loss to No. 8 Syracuse on the flight deck of the USS Midway, the Aztecs unveiled a banner and collected rings for sharing the … NJ.com • November 13, 2012, 10:40 PM (PST)

 

Report: Falcons coach won’t address accusations leveled by Saints players After the Saints defeated the previously unbeaten Falcons Sunday, New Orleans linebackers Scott Shanle and Jonathan Vilma accused several players of walking through team drills while talking trash to boot. Given their line of work, this seems innocuous… CBS Sports • November 13, 2012, 3:17 PM (PST)

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