A golf course inside Cedar Creek, and Mike Helmer's walk out after 15 years

Jordan Rogers' new Yard Time episode follows a prison golf program in Washington, while Jim Cornette went back to WWE's 2002 Katie Vick angle.

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This Prison Uses Golf to Prepare Inmates for Life After Release | Yard Time

Golf carried the week. Of the fifteen uploads VICE Sports put out, the one drawing the most viewers right now is "This Prison Uses Golf to Prepare Inmates for Life After Release | Yard Time," which passed 8,000 views in its first day.

Yard Time is hosted by Jordan Rogers, a former elite athlete who, as the series introduction puts it, has lived through addiction and incarceration himself. This time he goes to Cedar Creek Corrections Center in Washington, where incarcerated men play golf to practice patience, handle frustration and think before acting. The chapters run from the course's own "19th hole" to what the state borrowed from Norway's prisons, and the episode ends with Mike Helmer getting ready, then walking out after 15 years inside. Two shorter clips from the same visit followed it.

The wrestling side of the channel kept its own schedule. Jim Cornette, the veteran manager turned historian, hosts Cornette's Side of the Ring, a companion to the docuseries Dark Side of the Ring, and his look back at the 2002 Katie Vick storyline with Kane and Triple H became the week's most watched upload. In its comments, older fans place it in a slump after the Attitude Era, when The Rock and Steve Austin were away. A lighter piece on rollerblading's strange trick names filled out the week.

Overall the channel ran at about half its usual daily pace. Among documentary channels near its size, RocaNews had the biggest week, and the fifth estate was one of the few running above its normal level.

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The videos drawing views on VICE Sports right now

Was this the worst WWE storyline ever? Jim Cornette reacts.13,192 views · 2026-09-27 Where Is The Damn Wrestling | Cornette's Side of the Ring7,806 views · 2026-09-30 The Inmates Behind A Prison Golf Program | Yard Time (Clip)4,542 views · 2026-10-02 Rollerblading's Wacky Trick Names3,834 views · 2026-09-30 Inside A Prison Golf Program | Yard Time (Clip)3,317 views · 2026-10-01

The numbers

Here is how VICE Sports' week looks in numbers.

subscribers

1,120,000

total views

294,629,080

views per day

69,382

typical day: 127,422

this week's videos (first-day views)

This Prison Uses Golf to Prepare Inmate…

8,038

Where Is The Damn Wrestling | Cornette'…

4,828

The Inmates Behind A Prison Golf Progra…

4,010

Rollerblading's Wacky Trick Names

2,341

Inside A Prison Golf Program | Yard Tim…

2,161

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Boy Boy

1,310,000

RocaNews

1,150,000

VICE Sports

1,120,000

Channel 4 Documentaries

1,110,000

Natural World Facts

1,070,000

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,050,000

Banijay History

1,040,000

the fifth estate

1,000,000

The Atlantic

981,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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