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King’s Promotions is having an all-in-one boxing show in Allentown tonight, featuring Allentown against Reading amateurs and two pro fighters from Reading who have a combined 29-2 record. One of them, 24-year-old heavyweight Travis Kauffman, appeared to be on his way to a big…
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Read on mcall.com →Two ex-Allentown boxers who spilled their share of blood during their careers, made their return to the ring on Saturday. But it was just to pose for pictures. Luis Melendez, a former lightweight, and Art “Breeze” Baylis, a sparring partner for former heavyweight champion Larry…
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Read on mcall.com →The Kutztown women’s basketball team may have discovered in the Golden Bear Classic last weekend what veteran coach Janet Malouf has missed the last two seasons: offense. Led by 5-foot-10 sophomore swing player Melissa McQuade, Kutztown totaled 66 points Saturday, then tallied…
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Read on mcall.com →Actor and comedian Chris Tucker was among the most famous guests at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. He was one of many blacks attending the Pennsylvania 500 and, in typical fashion, cracked the joke of the day during a pre-race press conference. “I’m giving up acting and I’m going to…
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Read on mcall.com →Tony Stewart is NASCAR’s version of former New York Yankees’ slugger Reggie Jackson. He gets hot when it’s crunch time, taking more checkered flags late in the season in much the same fashion as Jackson used to belt home runs in October. Stewart, 36, has won 17 races from June…
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Read on mcall.com →Cheyney center Robbie Simpson had a career game, and the Wolves’ guards had big fun dribbling at will through Kutztown’s vulnerable defense Tuesday night. Simpson, a 6-10 sophomore center, dunked four times over Kutztown players en route to a career-high 26 points in helping…
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Read on mcall.com →Kutztown has the luxury of having a 6-10 center with quick feet, a soft shooting touch, 3-point range, and shot-blocking ability. But junior center Sean McKeon wasn’t much use to the Golden Bears in the closing minutes against West Chester in the Pennsylvania State Athletic…
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Read on mcall.com →Joe Semanoff has not experienced the best of luck in Las Vegas this week. But it’s not because he’s lost money. Semanoff, a backup junior running back at Brigham Young and former Lehighton High star, has been disappointed with the weather. “[Monday] night we got a little snow,”…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem middleweight Rose Morales doesn’t want to be considered a sore loser. She just wants a few facts to be known about her July 22 North American Boxing Council middleweight title match in Bermuda. She was flown to the island on July 21 and flown out on July 23. Champion…
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Read on mcall.com →The main event ended with blood, bruises, and two fatigued fighters Saturday night. The standing-room only crowd responded with a standing ovation. After a more than 50-year absence of professional boxing in center city Allentown, the John Karoly Four Corner Promotions show…
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Read on mcall.com →Light-heavyweight contender Olando Rivera will wear his warrior hat into the ring tonight for his main event fight at the Crowne Plaza. When he returns home to Tampa, Fla., he’ll put on his other hat, the one he wears when he’s around his children — 13-year-old Victoria,…
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Read on mcall.com →Everything seemed so to be going along as planned for Travis Mohr on Friday in Athens — until the end. That was when fear shook him. After four years of chasing a second Paralympic gold medal in the SB6 100-meter breaststroke, and despite his fervent desire to break his own…
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Read on mcall.com →Harold Martin no longer feels as though he and his dad, Huston, are the “Odd Couple” when attending drag racing tracks. A retired General Motors engineer, Harold Martin is creating inroads to a place that once would have seemed unlikely for an African-American driver in the…
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Read on mcall.com →The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs don’t care who, but they want one of their players to get married during the season next year. The tying of vows seems to be the good luck charm the ‘Dawgs need to win a USBL title. Thank you, Marcus Fleming. That was the sentiment Pennsylvania coach…
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Read on mcall.com →The world became Larry Holmes’ to splash around in on June 9, 1978, but the woman he wanted to join him refused. Diane Holmes, who was not yet married to Larry when he won a 15-round split decision over Ken Norton to become the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion that…
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Read on mcall.com →The Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs were out-jumped, out-dunked and out-hustled by the Dodge City Legend Tuesday night at Stabler Arena. Maybe the ‘Dawgs are not as skilled as Dodge City. The 115-97 loss marked the second time in 10 days they have been subdued by the Legend. The ‘Dawgs…
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Read on mcall.com →Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins destroyed another overmatched opponent in another mandatory title defense Saturday night at the First Union Spectrum. His opponent, Frenchman Mourade Hakkar, dropped to the canvas five times. Finally, referee Frank Cappuccino stopped the…
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Read on mcall.com →Hasim Rahman’s quest to regain a portion of the heavyweight championship belt won’t be realized anytime soon. At least, not until Rahman beats David Tua. Rahman, the former WBC and IBF champion, thought he had done that Saturday night in the co-featured main event at the First…
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Read on mcall.com →Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins wanted to fight Roy Jones Jr., but was not willing to be cheated out of money. He would have settled for Oscar de la Hoya, but the Golden Boy has stayed clear. Welterweights Shane Mosley and Vernon Forrest know how to find Hopkins, but…
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Read on mcall.com →Gerry Cooney is satisfied with his life 21 years after he failed to win the heavyweight championship from Larry Holmes. That loss has not haunted him. It only made him stronger and more committed to helping other boxers get their lives in order after they retire. His health is…
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Read on mcall.com →Larry Holmes’ arms were raised in victory. His reign as heavyweight champion would continue after a 13th-round technical knockout of Gerry Cooney, the man many thought of as “the great white hope.” With the victory, Holmes hoped the racial barrier that he believed separated…
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Read on mcall.com →Trying to figure out what’s in the brain of former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is a task many psychiatrists might find difficult, so Larry Holmes is not even going to attempt. All Holmes, who held the heavyweight title 1978-85, can really do is speak about the general…
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Read on mcall.com →For seemingly one final time, 29 years after his first professional bout, former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes proved before his chanting fans, closest friends, family and a pay-per-view audience, that his left jab was still slick as “butter” Saturday night at the Scope.…
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Read on mcall.com →Mike Mittman, a former Telley Award winner for excellence in broadcasting, has signed a contract to join the boxing commentary team of Al Bernstein and Dave Bontempo for the pay-per-view telecast of former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes’ final fight tonight at the Scope arena…
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