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12 Of The Year's Punchiest Hockey Fights, Evaluated By A Boxing Writer
As far as I can tell, the main difference between boxing and hockey fights is that during a hockey fight, you're standing on ice. And sliding all over the place. Therefore it becomes important to hold your opponents in place with one hand to stabilize them before you can hit them. Other than that,...
Semin Leads The Capitals To Sweet, Sweaty Extended-Time Victory
Your morning roundup for April 14, the day San Dimas High School football no longer rules in the eyes of the Chinese government....
Watch An Unheralded Japanese Boxer Drop His Foe Three Times In The First Round
Just prior to last night's light-middleweight bout between the "exciting, unbeaten and seemingly unstoppable" James "Mandingo Warrior" Kirkland and Japanese boxer Nobuhiro Ishida, promoter Lou DiBella Tweeted "YOU'RE KIDDING,RIGHT?" when asked who he liked to win. As in, c'mon, Kirkland....
Go To Gelf's Varsity Letters Tonight And Listen To Great Boxing Writing
NYC folks: Gelf's Varsity Letters free reading series returns tonight, with boxing writing from Thomas Hauser, George Kimball, and Gary Andrew Poole. Head to Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street at 7:30. It will, as usual, be le great. [Gelf]...
Jose Canseco's Latest Tragicomedy Plays Out On Boston Radio
The controversy over Jose Canseco's no-show at one of his silly celebrity boxing matches has reached almost a full week of coverage thanks to the public piss-off between Jose and promoter Damon Feldman. Did Jose knowingly dick over the fight promoter and send his twin brother Ozzie to fight for him...
Boxer Teon Kennedy Gets His Face Rearranged
Jorge Diaz lost this fight by unanimous decision in Atlantic City last Saturday, but he also landed this evil left that momentarily turned Teon Kennedy into a mutant Steve Urkel. From a different angle:...
Floyd Mayweather Bet $50k On The Cavaliers Tonight
Miami was in Cleveland tonight, taking on the Cavaliers, Zydrunas Ilgauskas' former team....
Jean Pascal Punches Bernard Hopkins In The Face During A Press Conference "For The Fans"
Jean Pascal and Bernard Hopkins got into a bit of a physical altercation during a pre-fight press conference today. Pascal ended the press conference by not-so-politely asking Hopkins to take a blood test before their fight in May. Hopkins commendable response? "Aw, hell no."...
Let's Start The Day With A Story About Kindness
Your morning roundup for March 27, the day people continue to concern themselves with Dennis W. Peterson losing his front teeth at a Hooters....
Mike Tyson: "I Didn't Even Deserve A Prostitute With AIDS"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: a characteristically candid Tyson on his low points, and his second and third careers....
What The Furious Ninth Round Of Gatti-Ward 1 Tells Us About Life
If you like boxing or have even a passing interest in what it means to be human, please go read novelist Sergio De La Pava's wonderful essay "A Day's Sail" in the latest Triple Canopy magazine. De La Pava looks at two of the best rounds in boxing history — the one mentioned in the title of this po...
Bernard Hopkins Reminds You To Have Your Pit Bulls Spayed Or Neutered
Everlasting boxer Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins and fellow Philly pugilist Mike Jones will lend their mugs to a non-profit's campaign urging the people of Camden, NJ to get their pit bulls fixed. For context, Camden is often voted the nation's most dangerous city, and one that laid off 83 cops ...
Sergio Martinez, The Celtic War, And An Evening In Foxwoods With The Boxing Scumbags
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — The Foxwoods Resort and Casino is an abomination that rises incongruously from the empty woods in Connecticut as if to challenge all accepted notions of urban planning, and, indeed, logic. It also has good fights....
Giant Sculpture Of Muhammad Ali Made From Punching Bags
Three years ago, Muhammad Ali and his wife, Lonnie, approached artist (and baseball junkie) Michael Kalish to create an original sculpture. The result is what you see here, a two-story installation with 1,300 punching bags suspended from a steel frame....
Cool Never-Before-Seen Ali-Frazier Photos, 40 Years After The Fight Of The Century
On March 8, 1971, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought in what was billed as the "Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden. LIFE has put together a gallery of photos taken by a 24 year-old staff photographer named John Shearer 40 years ago; the majority of his photos were never published until...
Mike Tyson & People Who Really, Really Like Birds
Mike Tyson's new show on Animal Planet revolves around the former boxer's introduction to the sport of racing homing pigeons. Viewers get a glimpse of a fascinating world, in which birds are treated like athletes - carefully trained, fed only the best birdseed and vitamins, prized for their performa...
Don King Embroiled In Knockdown Court Battle With Puerto Rican Taco Stand
Having tired of fighting Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis in court, Don King has set his sights on a new opponent – Delia Esquilín-Mendoza, the owner of a taco shop in Puerto Rico. On March 1 2003, Delia's Tacos intercepted a closed-circuit transmission of the Roy Jones Jr.- Jon Ruiz fight and deprived K...
A Bad Night In Newark, Redeemed By A Single Punch
NEWARK — The fights Saturday night were in Newark. Not in the actual stadium, the Prudential Center, but next door, in a big, boxy, white warehouse where the New Jersey Devils practice. The ice rink was covered with a green, turf-like carpet that wasn't quite sized properly, resulting in large carpe...
The Real Dicky Eklund In HBO's <em>High On Crack Street</em> And Places Less Dignified
The sad tale of boxer Dicky Eklund has been well-chronicled on screens both big and small. One of the more interesting plot devices in the recent Hollywood film The Fighter is that the HBO documentary High on Crack Street shapes part of the movie's storyline. The video above includes some choice s...
Dicky Eklund Does The Ali Shuffle In Sugar Ray Leonard's Mug
Christian Bale won an Oscar last night for his portrayal in "The Fighter" of Dicky Eklund, the former New England welterweight champion who got hooked on crack, went to prison then resurrected himself as a trainer, most notably for his brother Micky Ward. During his acceptance speech, Bale ordered...