Floyd Mayweather can be called many things without equivocation. Polarizing. Money. Undefeated. Champion. Any of those are fine because they’re all true. He’s a brash figure who can garner attention wherever he goes. He’s the largest box office draw in boxing. He’s never lost a fight and won titles over 5 different weight classes. And [...]
Even after this past weekend’s atrocity of a boxing match, there are still doubters to my notion last week that the sport is dead. In response, I will quote the great Jay-Z from his song The Takeover: “A wise man said, ‘don’t argue with fools,’ ‘cause people, from a distance, can’t tell who is who…” This [...]
By the time you read this, Manny Pacquiao will have already dispatched of another contender. And it’s not like Joshua Clottey is a tomato can by any stretch of the imagination — he’s actually pretty damn good. The problem is he’s not Floyd Mayweather, Jr. So where boxing has failed to capitalize in promoting, marketing, [...]
1. McGwire comes clean After hiding in the cellar for five years following his dreadful appearance at Capitol Hill where he stated that he wasn’t going to talk about the past, Mark McGwire admits to using steroids throughout his playing career with the St Louis Cardinals and Oakland Athletics. Not really shocking news to anyone, [...]
1. King Kobe does it again. He is the most clutch player of all time, there I said it. I have observed basketball with a keen eye, and after watching Kobe Bryant hit big shot after big shot over the past fourteen years, and three times game-winners in the past month alone capped off by [...]
