It is the age-old question, one that has puzzled mankind for what seems like forever. All right, so maybe the foremost such puzzler is “Why did...
No wonder they call them the “Fighting” Irish. For the second time in four years, Top Rank founder and CEO Bob Arum has signed a boxer...
The mechanics of cranking out a newspaper story are basically the same, whether you’re a beat writer for a sports team, city government, crime, medicine, education...
Victor Conte might not bear much of a resemblance to Leonardo DiCaprio, but the controversial founder and president of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, better known...
Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins’ postfight press conferences have always had a surrealistic quality, but his musings about his past, his future, and the state of boxing...
For the purposes of establishing a historical perspective, let us take a journey back in time to 1993. Federal agents besieged the Branch Davidian compound in...
There is a scene in The Godfather– the 1972 classic I reference often because it’s such a damn fine example of moviemaking and also because of...
There is a scene in the 1972 film classic, The Godfather, in which Michael Corleone, temporarily exiled to Sicily while his family engages in a bloody...
Boxing movies are like movies in general: Some are very, very good –Raging Bull, Rocky, The Set-Up, the original Body and Soul and some are very,...
Longtime Philadelphia boxing promoter J Russell Peltz was doing his best to hype Saturday night’s pay-per-view matchup at the WaMu Theater between WBO super bantamweight champion...