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You can not win 68 of 74 fights and successfully defend the heavyweight championship 20 consecutive times without having a few easy fights. Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes does not deny that. In fact, he believes that one of his easiest fights will come Saturday night…
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Read on mcall.com →Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs coach Darryl Dawkins might have pulled his hair out — if he had any — Friday night. And yanking some from his good friend Larry Holmes’ head appeared out of the question. That might have resulted in a fight, something most of the players Dawkins was…
· Andre D. Williams
Read on mcall.com →The rumble is on. The raging bull that is Mike Tyson is fighting the heavyweight champion with the glass jaw, Lennox Lewis, late tonight at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tenn. No heavyweight championship bout has had this much hype since Tyson and Evander Holyfield went “tooth-to-ear”…
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Read on mcall.com →Just about any style of guard the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs could ask for was in uniform for their United States Basketball League game against the Dodge City Legend Sunday night at Stabler Arena. They ranged in size from 5-10 to 6-7. What the ‘Dawgs didn’t have was somebody in…
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Read on mcall.com →The right hand of challenger Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga kept landing, backing up and often doing damage to Andrew “Six Heads” Lewis. Then came the furious conclusion. Mayorga came with everything in his arsenal and flattened Lewis to score a technical knockout at 1 minute, 8…
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Read on mcall.com →Something besides money made legendary boxing promoter Don King light up like the glamorous lights of Las Vegas Thursday when he visited the Canal Street Pub and Restaurant. And everybody knows that casinos are big in the city that never sleeps. Reading does not have any casinos…
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Read on mcall.com →“Bark, bark, bark.” That’s all undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins says he hears from Roy Jones Jr., mostly from far away. When will Hopkins get a chance to pound Jones, as he did Carl Daniels in successfully defending the middleweight title a record 15th…
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Read on mcall.com →Undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins talked a good fight and even tried to talk Carl Daniels out of fighting him three days before the two met for Hopkins’ WBC, WBA and IBF belts Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. But Daniels showed up and took the champion’s…
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Read on mcall.com →Marshmallows will be the post-fight snack for the loser of the bout between undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and Carl Daniels Saturday night at the Sovereign Center. Both have vowed to make the other eat them. But it was not Daniels (46-3-1, 30 KO’s), the…
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Read on mcall.com →Whew! It was that close, that breathtaking. It was also that drenching, especially for La Salle coach Billy Hahn, who could have taken a shower at halftime of Tuesday night’s Big 5 game against Penn before a crowd of 3,722 at La Salle’s Gola Arena. By game’s end, after 45…
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Read on mcall.com →On the way to his press conference in this city, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins ran into a major delay because of a flat tire on his burgundy-with-gold-trimmings limousine. The Philadelphia native, once considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, has had his share…
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Read on mcall.com →Josh Warren knew right away last Aug. 31 that the excruciating pain he had just felt in his left knee wasn’t like anything he had ever experienced. He was not prepared to deal with a season of hopelessness, sitting instead of playing, cheering instead of rallying the team. The…
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Read on mcall.com →A disciplinary action that resulted from an alcohol-related incident on campus involving five Kutztown football players, including star quarterback Josh Warren, has left the Golden Bears short-handed heading into their season-opening game Saturday in Elizabeth, N.C. Warren,…
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