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September Comeback? A possibility instead of the same old futility
By Norm Frauenheim-
On the traditional calendar, September means change, summer turning into fall. But it means something more these days, at least it does...
And a lunatic shall lead us
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday I went for a drive in a random direction and learned a bit more about the spread of...
Joshua-Fury: Fury already favored, but what are the odds of it ever happening?
By Norm Frauenheim-
News of an agreement for two Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury fights next year was quickly followed by bookies installing Fury as a slight...
Tuesday’s tentative Return
By Bart Barry-
Tuesday evening on ESPN undefeated American featherweight titlist “Fearless” Shakur Stevenson will make a 10-round match with Puerto Rico’s oncedefeated Felix Caraballo...
FOLLOW UFC 250 LIVE
Follow all the action as it happens as Amanda Nunes defends the UFC Featherweight title against Felicia Spencer. Two big bantamweights featuring former champion...
First Round: Top Rank launches its post-pandemic plan
By Norm Frauenheim-
Top Rank is poised to hit the re-set button next week, mid-week, with live telecasts, the first in about three months, which...
An inexpert column by someone who didn’t even wish to write it
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Onto the kindling of this city’s massive unemployment and bursting foodbank lines and COVID-19 fear and socialdistancing alienation dropped...
Forbes 100: It’s a different list with an expensive warning
By Norm Frauenheim-
The Forbes list used to belong to Floyd Mayweather Jr., who became better known for dominating the money ranks than the pound-for-pound...
Two rounds on the heavybag hearing Barry White, May 2011
By Bart Barry-
beeenk … beeenk … beeenk
Get it swinging stiff it arm it bring the hook hard sand unsoftened heaviness heaviness dig the hook...
Money or History: Pandemic pushes Canelo to the edge of a potential dilemma
By Norm Frauenheim-
Canelo Alvarez is fighting for history. At least, he was, pre-pandemic, last November in his light-heavyweight stoppage of Sergey Kovalev. But history,...
Highschool fourballers, German vampires and vanishing defiance
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – A curious scenario now plays in this city re COVID-19. Told they can come out their residences and resume...
What Comeback? Mike Tyson has never left the stage
By Norm Frauenheim
In case you haven’t heard or seen, Mike Tyson is coming back. That’s news, of course. But it’s strange to call his...
An interview with the quarantined boxing writer by the quarantined boxing writer
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Since 2016 we’ve allowed Bart Barry to interview himself about the state of the craft once annually when he is...
FOLLOW UFC 249 LIVE
Follow all the action as it happens as Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje battle for the UFC Interim Lightweight title. The Prelims kick off...
Jimmy Glenn, Rest In Peace
By Norm Frauenheim-
Mike Tyson wants to fight four-rounders. So, does Evander Holyfield. I’ll let you figure out where that leads. The public imagination is...
Ghostwriting for Kevin Barry in West Texas
By Bart Barry-
Hotel Viejoyhermoso, San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, on a Friday evening in June 2012
Worst scorecard I’ve seen, you, Bruce?
What were you...
History is repeating itself, maybe boxing will too
By Norm Frauenheim-
Nostalgia will survive the pandemic. So, too, will boxing, the world’s second-oldest profession.
A sure sign of boxing’s resiliency, its heartbeat, is in...
Sans boxing Saturdays: Atocha, Velazquez and Petruchio
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Nothing is returned to normal, not even our last catastrophe’s new normal, and it becomes more obvious the few...
Missing the chaos, dreading the emptiness
By Norm Frauenehim-
Big fight weeks are little bit like the seasons. They are on the calendar, a date to anticipate, celebrate and debate. Next...
One way to create layers in writing
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Ten years ago I moved here and
promptly failed an eye test for my Texas drivers license so badly the...
Essential gets lost in the ring
By Norm Frauenheim-
Pro wrestling is essential, at least it is in Florida, which apparently needed something to replace spring break and Mickey Mouse as...
What I like about that is . . . and another thing is ....
By Bart Barry--It’s an exercise we did in a coaching workshop in Boston to help coaches listen more deeply and improvise more freely with...
Defiance not enough to keep coronavirus off an island or the UFC on ESPN,...
By Norm Frauenheim-
At first, Dana White said he was going to stage the UFC’s next event on an island. Then, there was news that...
Writing for those who love to read
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon, 10 miles southeast
of here, restrictions got eased by local government and free COVID-19 testing
became much more accessible...
Another Opening Bell? Plan for one and then plan for everything else to...
By Norm Frauenheim-
There’s not much to do while trying to honor a stay-at-home order. There’s music. There’s yard-work. There’s listening to pundits and Trump’s...
Staying at Home for Leaders
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Frantic is the word for it. I sat on the back porch Saturday morning and watched through the yards...
No Escape: No opening bell either, but there is a place to keep right...
By Norm Frauenheim-
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- No Opening Day. No Opening Ceremony. No opening bell. I’m almost afraid to open the door. Any door.
It’s hard...
Reading in a time of quarantine
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO – If writing this column in a time of
quarantine has advantages they are not immediately apparent. This city has reacted...
March Madness suddenly an empty season
By Norm Frauenheim-
March Madness has taken on a new meaning. More like Sadness.
There’s been a crazy whirlwind of postponements, then cancellations. College basketball fans...
Re-viewing Fury-Wilder 2
By Bart Barry-
Initiative is the word for it.
It’s what Deontay Wilder had in the first match
and lacked in the second, the first 30 seconds...
