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Things to do in Alamo City

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SAN ANTONIO – I can see Alamodome from my window. It’s a mile southeast of where I sit, and its southwestern spire is...

Pontiac Redux, Part 2

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Pontiac’s Business district wasn’t. Early on a Saturday afternoon nothing was open. I parked the Kia well off the curb of a...

Pontiac Redux, Part 1

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This week brings an ignominious anniversary for our beloved sport. Sunday will mark a year since “The Super Fight” – Timothy Bradley versus...

Writing about Chavez Jr. while thinking about Donaire

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SAN ANTONIO – Another deadline comes and goes in the silly saga of whether the two best fighters in our sport in 2009 will...

In celebration of thinkers, skepticism and 10-10 rounds

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There is no such thing as an objective scorecard in boxing. Using that assumption, let’s take a look at – wait, what’s that?...

Frustrated Chavez Jr. announces February title defense at Alamodome

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SAN ANTONIO – Mexican middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., known as much for his father’s exploits as his own, is fully aware of...

Portrait of a credential to 2011’s biggest fight, Part 2

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Editor’s note: For Part 1, please click here. *** The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas...

Portrait of a credential to 2011’s biggest fight, Part 1

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The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas was in recovery. The city tried...

Ward and Froch, and the anfractuous path to greatness

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On a perfect evening in the ring, a night when American Andre Ward and Englishman Carl Froch both were able to make their very...

Ward-Froch to determine Fighter of the Last Two Years

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There is a conditional clause still in place on the Boxing Writers Association of America’s 2011 ballot for Fighter of the Year. It...

Cotto and Margarito, and a treatment of semi-satisfaction

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The narrative of Cotto-Margarito II will say Miguel Cotto, inspired by tens of thousands of his countrymen within Madison Square Garden, gained a richly...

Margarito-Cotto II: Revenge served cold

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Saturday’s rematch between Mexican Antonio Margarito and Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto is about revenge. It is not about establishing primacy at the kooky...

Chavez, Martinez, and the importance of layers

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HOUSTON – And there was Sergio Martinez lurking stage left, both taller and thinner than he appears on television. He was at the...

Chavez improves to 44-0-1-1, having improved in every way

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HOUSTON – Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez may never win fighter of the year, but if the Boxing Writers Association of America gave out a...

“The fight is not that happy”

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LAS VEGAS – After a frustrated but triumphant Juan Manuel Marquez addressed a large crowd in the MGM Grand media center Saturday, a chastened...

Marquez masters Pacquiao but not judges in third match

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LAS VEGAS – In the years since Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez began their rivalry, fans have debated what might have happened had...

Magdaleno dominant but not destructive on “Top Rank Live”

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LAS VEGAS – Diego Magdaleno may not have blown through his opponent the way some hoped he would, but he made a dominant showing...

Pacquiao-Marquez III: Growing intrigue

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LAS VEGAS (Nov. 11) – After ripping his shirt neckline to bellybutton and tossing its remains to a group of aghast Filipino fans, Mexican...

Winks, daggers and exasperation

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In his latest collection of boxing writing, “Winks and Daggers” (The University of Arkansas Press; $24.95), Thomas Hauser provides his signature, last-word treatment of...

“20-1 odds are too much”

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Right on, Roy. The quote above belongs to HBO analyst Roy Jones, who said those words Saturday in a context far different from how they...

Welcome, Mr. Hershman, we have lots of work for you

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Thursday the indefatigable Lem Satterfield broke news that Ken Hershman will replace Ross Greenburg as President of HBO Sports – a position akin to...

Then the rains came

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SAN ANTONIO – The withering aridity that made this city consider water rations has finally broken. The drought is on, many inches of...

Más trabajador que maravilla

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Saturday continued the happiest development our sport has seen in years. Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, a southpaw Argentine who prefers Spain but lives in...

And when Mayweather and Pacquiao never do fight?

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We are where we were 20 months ago. Floyd Mayweather knows he can beat Many Pacquiao, doesn’t understand why the rest of us...

One man acted like a fighter, and the other did not

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If the day ever comes that you spar with a prizefighter, you’ll find yourself defenseless soon enough. Exhausted or confused, you’ll drop your...

Chalk up another for Money May

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Legend has it the gambling term “chalk” precedes World War II. In the days when horsetrack bettors watched a chalkboard for odds, the...

My amazing summer internship

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As a philosophy major in the mid 1990s, I never had a chance to do an internship. A decade’s worth of hindsight now...

Fretting already about Pacquiao-Marquez III

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A friend visited me from Mexico last week. Between trips to Austin and strolls along the San Antonio River, we had occasion to...

Blood, steel, canvas and warmth

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“Blood, Steel and Canvas: The Asian Odyssey of a Fighter” by Craig Alan Wilson (Diversion Books; $4.99) is a spare and enjoyable e-book that...

“The most disgraceful performance by a referee that I have seen...

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That quote belongs to Showtime commentator Al Bernstein. Its subject is Nevada referee Russell Mora. Bernstein made the comment between rounds 11 and 12,...