Joyce Carol Oates, in her On Boxing, writes about how the actual activity of boxing is exclusively masculine. It’s about how a man defines his worth by fighting another man. Boxing is to ...
Read more »I don't know if you know, but Manny Pacquiao is Filipino. There's a couple ways that helps him in boxing. First is he gets calves of freakish girth so he can punch hard and move fast. Second is he ...
Read more »It's so easy to be a Manny Pacquiao fan. Yeah, he wins, but so do guys like Kobe, Sid Crosby, and even Floyd Mayweather. But what sets this guy apart is his genuineness and his joy; his genuine joy ...
Read more »Last Saturday night Manny Pacquiao won his eighth title in his eighth different weight category on the eighth day of the eight month (okay, I made those last two up.) Pacquiao's win in many ways was ...
Read more »It's been less than 48 hours, but I miss the old days, when it was so much easier to call Floyd Mayweather a pussy who ducks tough fights. There's still lots to dislike and even hate about the guy, ...
Read more »Jim Lampley repeatedly going 'bang, bang..." during the Pacquiao/Clottey fight. Sometimes, you just run out of adjectives.
Read more »Yahoo's Kevin Iole says that the fight's going to likely be announced in New York next week . The fight is going to take place on May 1 at the MGM Grand. If I have money and had the choice to ...
Read more »It was a bet with my friend Neil. I'm thinking maybe we should have a bet on whether this fight is actually going to happen, the negotiations are so long and quiet. Floyd's got this rep of ...
Read more »As of right now it seems that the Pacquiao/Mayweather superfight has been called off. According to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports, promoter Bob Arum has given word that the fight will not happen because ...
Read more »True, Pacquiao could take some of the heat off simply by taking and passing some extra damn blood tests. Just to recap, though, here are a couple of good, reasonable, possible explanations why he has& ...
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avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
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"im still a bit cynical"
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