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Mike Tyson is starting the New Year with green on his mind, because he’s leading the charge on a cannabis resort that aims at not only producing high quality strains of THC and CBD, but also implementing cutting-edge technology to advance the research on the health benefits of marijuana...California City is expecting a big boom in cannabis production and development as the “Green Rush” hits California now that marijuana is officially legal as of midnight. We’re told Tyson Ranch will be dedicating 20 acres of their land for cultivation facilities that “will allow master growers to have maximum control of...

Donald Trump has not lost his Mike Tyson vote, even after his controversial call to ban all Muslims from the United States. Tyson, who has been vocal of his support for Trump in the past and is a Muslim himself, told TMZ on Tuesday that the comments of a 'total and complete shutdown' on Muslim immigration to America have not changed his views. 'Anybody that was ever president of the United States offended some group of people or some groups of people were offended,' Tyson said 'He's still ahead in the polls and he deserves a chance.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361734/He-deserves-chance-Mike-Tyson-stands-Donald-Trump-despite-proposed-ban-Muslim-immigrants.html#ixzz3uSalhqYY...

'Let's run America like a business, where no colors matter' “Iron Mike” Tyson was unequivocal on Monday as to who he thinks should be the next commander in chief: Donald Trump. The former heavyweight champion told HuffPost Live it was time to have a businessman in the White House. “He should be president of the United States. That’s what he should be. … [Pundits and politicians] say, ‘These people don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re telling the people right in their face — all the Republicans, all the Democrats, all the independents — they’re saying right in the people’s...

When they aren't busy boring us with cliches, a fair portion of the world's sporting elite has spent the electronic entertainment era proving that athletic and intellectual prowess rarely swim in the same gene pool.     This is no condemnation of that rather predictable disparity between physical and mental gifts. This is a celebration of that typical dichotomy.     The cliched are loathed and the creative celebrated, however inane. Forget respect, compassion and humility. Quotability is the ultimate virtue, blandness the deadliest of sins.     Keep your canned responses. Give us more Yogi and less yoga.     New England can have Belichick. Bring on...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mike Tyson will be facing a big man when he meets Kevin McBride in a heavyweight fight Saturday night. The 6-foot-5 McBride weighed in at 271 pounds Thursday to 233 for Tyson. It was the heaviest McBride has weighed for a fight. He was 270 when he was knocked out by Davarryl Williamson in January 2002. Tyson was the same weight he was last year when Danny Williams stopped him in the fourth round. Tyson has won only one of three fights when weighing over 230 pounds.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS -- Da Bears or Da Senate. Most conversations involving fans of the Chicago Bears eventually revert to the 1986 Super Bowl championship and their ringleader, Coach Mike Ditka. "Iron Mike," as he is known, won more than 100 games for the Bears from 1982 to 1992 after a distinguished playing career with the Monsters of the Midway. Now 64, Ditka is making news outside the gridiron. It has been speculated that he may enter the political arena. The prize -- a U.S. Senate seat now up for grabs after incumbent Republican Peter Fitzgerald announced he would not seek...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka underwent hip surgery Saturday and was expected to make a quick recovery after a fall in his home, according to a business partner. ``He is out of surgery and doing fine,'' Ditka's Restaurant managing partner Todd Gunderson said. He was unsure whether the hip was broken or needed replacement. Ditka, a Hall of Fame tight end who played most of his career with the Bears and coached them to victory in the 1986 Super Bowl, already has had both hips replaced -- one of them twice. Gunderson said Ditka was expected...

Mike Tyson may be washed up as a world class boxer, but he still has a hard head.When champ Lennox Lewis was shaking hands at Tao Tuesday night, he extended his meaty left paw, explaining he broke his right on Iron Mike's melon in the first round last Saturday.As everyone knows, Lewis completely dominated Tyson, and left him bleeding and flat on his back in the eighth.Lewis celebrated his devastating KO at Tao with 10 pals and bottles of Cristal, and sampled a congratulatory cake from the kitchen.