by Fox Doucette Are you ready for some football? Last night, the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys kicked off the NFL season in the United States with a contest on prime time television for a cheering nationwide throng who, unless they're truly rabid baseball fans, were starved for sports ever since the NBA Finals wrapped up two months ago. Meanwhile, one of the golden … [Read more...]
Shippin’ Up To Boston: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette There's an old saying that “you can't go home again.” While that may be true in the literal sense, since my mom sold the house I grew up in and moved out of state when my brother and I got old enough not to eat her out of house and home anymore 15 years ago, it is certainly possible to live somewhere else for a fair while and get back to a place that is … [Read more...]
Micky Ward’s Hall of Fame Case: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette What is a Hall of Famer? You name the sport, you'll get dozens of people with dozens of opinions about the criteria for enshrinement in their sport's hallowed halls of immortality. Do championships matter? If so, Dick Butkus never appeared in a playoff game during his career with some truly awful Bears teams in the 1970s, but he is correctly considered one of … [Read more...]
You’re On TV, Fight Like It: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette The fastest way to inspire a poor performance seems to be to say something nice about someone. Or so fans would be led to believe after all the glowing reviews of the 2011 Friday Night Fights season on ESPN2, where the matchmakers at the Worldwide Leader were rightly praised for putting on some tremendous fight cards, including the Fight of the Year between … [Read more...]
Just Sign Wolak-Rodriguez III Now: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette It's a slow news week in the fight game. The sport's gone into one of its inter-event hibernations---indeed, even the hardcore fan is very hard-pressed to find something worth the discussion this week. Which is why, thanks to my DVR, I cued up the fight on ESPN between Delvin Rodriguez and Pawel Wolak, still my choice for Fight of the Year, when they scrapped … [Read more...]