TweetThose who go to the former Gleason’s gym these days aren’t there to fight, but to stay in shape for its own sake:
When Gleason’s left Manhattan in 1986, the gym had 200 members, 90% of whom were competitive fighters. Not a single woman belonged to the gym. Top-end pros like Gerry Cooney and Roberto Duran [...]
TweetMy former AJC colleague Mike Tierney talks to Christie Moore Freel, who was taken aback by news of her former husband’s death in spite the demons she knew he had fought for years:
I know a lot of people say they weren’t shocked by it, but I really was. I really thought, at some point, the [...]
TweetAs the most valuable college athletes there are toil for free today, word comes from Jeremy Fowler of CBSSports.com that NCAA president Mark Emmert is dusting off his stipend proposal for preview at the organization’s convention later this month, with a new formal offering coming in April:
A need-based plan can be seen as glorified financial [...]
TweetSports attorney Jason Belzer’s dug up this gem about some long-lost bowl games that might give present-day corporate naming-rights mockers pause.
Before there was an International Bowl, and long before an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stage a Haka Bowl in New Zealand, a very famous rum manufacturer was able to persuade American college lads to head [...]
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Because this simply has never been bettered, and probably never will.
Good grief, this is older than I am.
Wishing everyone a terrific 2013!
TweetAnd presaging what’s ahead while riffing on an Olympic theme, as only Kyle Whelliston can.
TweetRoberto Clemente was lost to the world trying to help others in need.
Remembrances from ESPN Deportes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, USA Today, Craig Calcaterra.
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(via @MessiStats)
Blogs a Blaugrana devotée, and it appears to be in translation:
Everyone knows that Barça have a very obvious, top-down, self-imposed style. This doesn’t happen a lot in football. Part of the bickering over the cantera in Madrid this season turns on their current lack of a ‘house style’. Castilla [sic] doesn’t play like the first [...]
TweetPatrick Hruby’s most unmemorable sports moment of 2012 involves the Washington Wizards. He says they “typified ordinary sports failure,” but I suspect they may be on permanent steroids:
“Sports is striking out. Dribbling the ball off your foot. Missing a block and watching the quarterback get drilled. Sports is having your throbbing ankles taped, sweating through [...]
TweetNFL head coaches out today before lunchtime, all times local: Andy Reid. Romeo Crennel. Lovie Smith. Pat Shurmer. Norv Turner. Ken Whisenhunt.
Not sure if he got to eat first: Chan Gailey.
Mike Munchak has been told he’ll be back. So has Rex Ryan.
Almost as many GMs are getting the boot: Mike Tannenbaum. Tom Heckert. Gene Smith. [...]
