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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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Read on mcall.com →Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, 52, who’s far from a sculpted piece of boxing art himself, has said that his scheduled 10-round bout against Eric “Butterbean” Esch Saturday night at the Scope in Norfolk, Va. will be his last fight. He had been looking for a promoter…
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Read on mcall.com →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 →Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes sat quietly in a folding chair, cooling down and perhaps reflecting on all the glory he has enjoyed over the last 29 years, as sweat poured down his face following a workout and sparring session in his humid training facility Friday in…
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Read on mcall.com →Real or not? Not many of the fans crowded around the grandstands events area at Allentown’s Cedar Beach for the World Extreme Wrestling show Friday night seemed to care. The bottom line is that it was funny, at times thrilling, and best of all, free. That’s the way every event…
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Read on mcall.com →The financial stability was there all season. The emotional stability never was. The mixture was a bad combination for the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, one that led to disgruntlement within the organization, failure on the basketball court, and ultimately, a disappointing finish to…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins has been a professional basketball player and head coach, and now some of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs hope he is promoted one more level. Veterans Ronnie Fields and Cory Hightower, who helped the team win the franchise’s first United States Basketball League…
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Read on mcall.com →A bruised left leg, hip and sore butt suffered during a fall in a road race in St. Paul, Minn., did not slow Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein in his homecoming Friday night at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. No, the man nicknamed “The Blade” was aggressive and blazing as…
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Read on mcall.com →Darryl Dawkins, who has awed sports fans throughout the Lehigh Valley since he arrived in the spring of 1999 as head coach of the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. He lives in the Valley; his wife is from here. He and assistant coach Rick Nash have…
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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 →The intense look was still there, though occasionally broken with a quick smile. Then, back to focusing, teaching, going over in his mind during a short practice Wednesday evening at Stabler Arena what it is he needs to do to turn the Oklahoma Storm into a winner. It may be the…
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Read on mcall.com →Lennox Lewis is just four days away from defending his World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship titles against the one man former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes believes Lewis is probably scared to fight. That man is the loose cannon that…
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Read on mcall.com →Forget about the rocking chair that some people might have been thinking about as a goodbye gift to Evander Holyfield. “I’m going to be here a long time,” Holyfield said following his lopsided victory over Hasim Rahman in a heavyweight elimination bout Saturday night at the…
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Read on mcall.com →Evander Holyfield used nothing but his fists, padded with boxing gloves. But it seemed like the former four-time heavyweight champion was using a baseball bat against another former heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, Saturday night before a crowd of 9,831 at the Boardwalk Hall.…
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Read on mcall.com →The future fast lanes of District 11 athletes may have been paved by Bethlehem Catholic’s Eddie Scipio and his supporting cast of Golden Hawks sprinters in the PIAA Track and Field Championships last weekend at Shippensburg University. Scipio, a senior three-sport star, anchored…
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Read on mcall.com →Bethlehem Catholic pole vaulter Neil Schwab thought he was going to get an energy boost from a power bar he ate during competition in the Class 2A portion of the event in the PIAA Track and Field Championships Friday at Shippensburg University. Instead, the junior got sick to…
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Read on mcall.com →Athletes in The Morning Call’s circulation area from District 11 and District 3 who have legitimate shots of winning medals in the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University today and Saturday probably spent most of Thursday reflecting on what they need to do…
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Read on mcall.com →Saucon Valley’s Casie Williams is an all-around athlete with an odd love for fast food at McDonald’s. She loves to order large french fries, toss them in a bag, heavily salt them, shake up the bag and um … um … get her eats. “I go there a couple times on the weekend, sometimes…
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Read on mcall.com →Eddie Scipio, the fastest of the Bethlehem Catholic High sprinters, enthusiastically raised his voice after winning his fourth gold medal in the District 11 Class 2A championships a week ago and proclaimed, “We’re on the map in track and field.” Not just as a dot, either. Four…
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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 →They made winning their races look as easy as blowing out candles on a cake. Congratulations, however, for these District 11 track and field champions, were awarded in other ways. First, with the cheers of parents, coaches, teammates, and of course, admiring fans. Then with…
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Read on mcall.com →A lot has been expected of Bethlehem Catholic three-sport star Eddie Scipio this track season. So far, the senior has handled the pressure well. That was again the case in the District 11 Class 2A track and field championships Thursday at Blue Mountain High. Scipio, appearing…
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Read on mcall.com →The promise made to win a state track and field championship in the 100-meter dash by Parkland High sprinter Lee Riley to his mother, Sandra, while she lay in a coma at Hershey Medical Center in March, is one the junior said he will stop at nothing to accomplish. His mother died…
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Read on mcall.com →The gold medal seemed as if it might melt in Liberty senior Eric Eggleston’s hand, the way he kept looking at it, caressing it. For the last two years, he had left the District 11 Class 3A Track and Field Championships with a silver medal in the triple jump. All that changed…
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