Boxing/MMA

The nation has taken to Jeremy Lin like he’s the fourth Kardashian sister, and there are many reasons why.  He plays in Madison Square Garden, the epicenter of the basketball universe.  He is an Asian-American and looks so much different than the other players on the court.  He went to Harvard;  I bet he knows [...]

Let me start by saying I don’t condone this kind of crap. It’s a disgrace and should never occur. That being said — who doesn’t want to watch a good riot video? Imagine the winner’s fear. After the exhilaration of winning a championship fight, he gets to celebrate for about 30 seconds before realizing he [...]

The most celebrated moments in sport are often frozen in time.  Captured in a vintage sepia tone or the cracked frame of the days when photos were taken on actual film, they live on forever as windows into the past.  From Chuck Bednarik towering over a lifeless Frank Gifford to Bobby Orr soaring above the [...]

Fighters are never judged by a single fight. Sometimes, if not often, they may be remembered for a lone effort (see Leon Spinks, ‘Buster’ Douglas, and Carlos Baldomir), but never can you truly judge a boxer’s legacy or standing by one outing. Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao engaged in yet another razor-close exhibition against the hard-nosed [...]

Boxing is the “fool’s gold” of sport. It defies all that we learn from the time we are children into adulthood. Whether it’s the endless wails of a mother over her child’s scraped knee or the sharp wince accompanying the arthritic spasm of a retiree, we are too often reminded that human beings are made [...]

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is the definition of an asshole. Now, if he was standing here right in front of me, I might have a different tone, but I’m not sure there is another athlete I dislike more in the history of sports. And last night just added fuel to the fire. For anyone that paid [...]