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Bill Madden of the Daily News of New York has won the Hall of Fame’s Spink Award for his work as a baseball writer.

Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia will be presented the Warren Spahn Award at a gala Jan. 26 in Oklahoma City.

New York, NY, December 8, 2009 – Spike TV’s telecast of “The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights” live finale on Saturday, December 5 was the most watched final episode in the 10 seasons of the TUF franchise, peaking with 5.2 million viewers and a 5.9 rating with Men 18-34 for the Kimbo Slice-Houston Alexander fight. The over 5 million viewers were the most to watch a live UFC fight in 2009.

Martins Denis, UFC – It seems that the US National soccer team lost a potential great talent as Brazilian born Ricardo "The Golden Boy" Funch – who is going to make his UFC debut against Johny Hendricks this weekend at UFC 107 – instead discovered MMA.

Never doubt the drawing power of Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson.

This past weekend’s Spike TV broadcast of The Ultimate Fighter 10 Finale scored an average audience of 3.7 million viewers but peaked with 5.2 million for the non-headliner between Kimbo and Houston Alexander.

The Dec. 5 event was the most-watched season finale among the 10 seasons of “TUF.” It was also the third most-watched UFC fight card in the promotion’s history and the highest rated of 2009.

A three-hour special that details the best moments of the Ultimate
Fighting Championships’ 2009 season debuts this Wednesday, Dec. 9, on
Spike TV.

“UFC Best of 2009″ airs at 7 p.m. ET/PT on the UFC’s longtime cable partner.

The special features the biggest fights, best highlights and important milestones from throughout 2009, which included a total of 20 events, a Spike TV spokesperson today told MMAjunkie.com.