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...
So this is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” “The Hollow Men,” a 1925 poem written...