MARIJUANA BUSTS BEATS STEROIDS NEARLY 200-1!
San Francisco, CA– Over the years, booze, prescription pills, cocaine, heroin, you name the drug, fighters, much like society as a whole have had drug issues since the beginning of time. In recent years, Performance Enhancing Drugs have taken over the headlines. ...
LONG & POINTED THURSDAY COLUMN
Los Angeles, CA- There’s a lot going on in the boxing world this month (thankfully), however considering the extreme popularity of Manny Paquiao (52-3-2, 43 KOs) and his beatdown of Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) on Saturday, that might be overshadowing some of the action...
AIR INDIA PILOT FALLS ASLEEP & KILLS 158!
San Francisco, CA- One of the funnier stories in boxing history involved air travel, Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. The day after George Foreman mopped the floor with Ken Norton in 1974 in Caracas, Venezuela, the plane carrying Ali and Cosell,...
Top Rank's AZ Frontman Peter McKinnSan Francisco, CA- If I were Robert Arum and Mary Rose Wilcox, the first being an admitted felon and Top Rank promoter, the other an accused felon, what happened in a Phoenix, AZ courtroom this morning might be enough to make the felonious pair...
EXCERPTS FROM N.Y. DAILY NEWS STORY
New York, NY- The $12 million defamation suit Shane Mosley filed against BALCO founder Victor Conte was quietly dismissed last week, ending a contentious 2-1/2 year battle that played out in newspaper and Internet accounts, on courthouse steps and even on YouTube.
The case was...
ASKING TOO MUCH OF EVEN SUPERMANPacquiao Throwing, Margarito Catching
San Francisco, CA- Having fought professionally now since President Bill Clinton’s first term, 15 years, Manny Pacquiao has went from rags to riches, from preliminary fighter to bring World champion in more weight classes than anyone else can claim,...
WHEN & WHY IS SEX FORBIDDEN IN FIGHTING?
San Francisco, CA- For as long as I can remember, “sex & boxing” came together like oil & water. My old man, his prior generation, they told him that a man only had so many happy endings before the good times...
“SHOW OF SHOWS” IN 26TH YEAR ON AIR!World Champion Andre Ward In Action Nov. 27
San Francisco, CA- Listen to Saturday’s show (which broadcasts live at 11 AM PT on the Sports Byline USA Network, Military Forces Network and XTRA Sports 860 AM, KILT 610 in San Francisco and...
San Francisco,CA- Having recently reviewed the 2008 fight between unbeaten Miguel Cotto and Antonio “POS” Margarito, I came away with the same conclusion that I did prior to learning that Margarito’s hands may have been “loaded” with plaster of Paris blocks. The same material he was caught with...
Bethlehem, PA- When you write a weekly column on both MMA and boxing, what are you to do when you have a weekend stacked with both? You watch both of course; I taped UFC 122, and then decide which event is worth writing about. While I love MMA and...
