A. They cover everything from family titles like Connect 4 to a Wap boxing game.

BBC: Playing games with Wap

In the past few months a similar boxing game has made its way into millions of living rooms, following the introduction of the Wii, Nintendo's latest games console.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Jones is unlikely to start in the game against Northampton Saints on Boxing day, after only one A-team game and appearing as a replacement in the home tie with Connacht.

BBC: Returning Jones impresses Ruddock

That's because they have a Premier League game against Stoke on Boxing Day.

BBC: Man Utd's Japanese adventure

In France, a strike by airport-security personnel stretched into its seventh day, while in London, football club Arsenal postponed its Boxing Day game against Wolverhampton Wanderers by 24 hours because of a planned public-transport strike.

WSJ: Public-Sector Strikes Hit European Holiday Travel

If you love sports for the right reasons, you have to denounce in the strongest terms fist fights in sports outside of boxing and MMA. If the game is about scoring touchdowns, putting a ball in the hoop, or puck in a goal, fights are antithetical to us purists.

FORBES: Xavier-Cincinnati Fight Highlights Hypocrisy Of Violence In Sports

Peter Reid's side lost 5-0 at Everton on Boxing Day, with Premiership top-scorer Phillips missing his first game of the season with a hamstring injury.

BBC: Sunderland facing tough task

For the uninitiated, mixed martial arts is a type of fighting in which anything that's legal in jiujitsu, taekwondo, wrestling or boxing is fair game for example, punching, grappling, kicking and choking.

NPR: Mixed Martial Arts: Sport or Spectacle?