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Amateur MMA Night at the Lumber Yard II

By L. Jon Wertheim
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Editor's note: The following is excerpted from "Blood in the Cage" by L. Jon Wertheim, copyright 2009. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. On a lone and lonesome highway east of Omaha, cars are three deep in the parking lot of the Lumber Yard II. Nestled in the guts of the Iowa prairie, near the World's Largest Truck Stop, the University of Iowa campus, endless fields of corn stubble, and the rancid-smelling Ralston Purina plant -- the L ...

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