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Sports World

One Hundred Years of Arm Bars

How three generations of a Brazilian family evangelized for and fought over the sport of Gracie jiu-jitsu as it moved from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.

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Previously: David Samuels on the Longform Podcast

David Samuels Grantland Aug 2015 1h5min Permalink

The Call of Battle

After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.

Matt Cook Texas Monthly Jul 2013 35min Permalink