Suspicions of fixing fights and protecting certain boxers have plagued the sport since it’s earliest days. The great author Budd Schulberg even wrote a novel in 1947 titled “The Harder They Fall” which was about a boxer whose fights are fixed. The book was later developed into a popular film of the same title in [...]
Status: ATP #25 ranked player. Winner of five career ATP singles and 14 doubles titles. Winner of 2012 Australian Open in doubles. Helped lead Czech Republic to Davis Cup final in 2009 (loss to Spain). Reached career high singles rank of #8 in 2006.
Ht: 6-1 Wt: 167
DOB: November 27, 1978 In: Karvina Czech Republic
First [...]
Status: NHL left winger from 1982-2006 with Buffalo, Toronto, New Jersey, Boston, Colorado and Tampa Bay.
Ht: 6-4 Wt: 220
DOB: Sept. 29, 1963 In: Hamilton, Ont.
First Hockey Memory: “Down on the Hamilton Bay. My dad and his uncles, his brothers, we all used to go and skate on Hamilton Bay. That was before I started [...]
This is a piece I penned for www.BoxingInsider.com…
Andy Roddick recently befriended Tim Bradley at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, CA.
Roddick, the 2003 U.S. Open champion and a boxing fan, shared his views on what he thinks will happen when Manny Pacquiao clashes with Bradley on June 9. “I talked to (Bradley) [...]
Best Punch I Ever LandedWe posed this question to several fighters including Wladimir Klitschko, Tito Trinidad, Mitch ‘Blood’ Green, Arturo Gatti, Antonio Tarver, Winky Wright, among others: You have thrown thousands maybe millions of punches in your life. Is there a particular one that stands out as the best, most memorable punch you ever landed?
Wladimir Klitschko: “In the [...]
Status: New York Rangers defenseman.
Ht: 6-foot Wt: 193 pounds
DOB: June 24, 1990 In: Stouffville, Ont.
First Hockey Memory: “Skating in the backyard rink. They made a rink – my dad and my grandpa used to make it – and we’d be out there every day. Had my parents yell at me from inside, trying to get [...]
Is Wladimir Klitschko The Next One? (2003)By Scoop Malinowski
(This article was originally published in Boxing Digest in April 2003.)
Sullivan…Johnson…Dempsey…Louis…Marciano…Ali…Holmes…Tyson…Lewis. This is the linear line of boxing’s nine dominant heavyweight champions. The question now is who will be the next and tenth man to join this exclusive brotherhood? There are indications that suggest it could very well be Wladimir Klitschko.
“He’s the one,” [...]
(Note: This Biofile was done in 1992, my rookie year as a journalist.)
Status: NASCAR champion driver of the #3 Goodwrench Chevrolet. Seven-time Winston Cup Series champion. Winner of 1998 Daytona 500.
DOB: April 29, 1951 In: Kannapolis, NC
Ht: 6-2 Wt: 185
Childhood Hero: “My dad Ralph.”
Hobbies/Interests: “Hunting, fishing, my farm, watching my [...]
Musician and friend of Federer, Gavin Rossdale was at the outdoor area of the U.S. Open player’s lounge this year on a sunny afternoon and he was kind enough to sit down and discusses his love of tennis…
“I grew up playing tennis and just loving it. I used to get a kick out of watching [...]
You’ve all heard the old saying, “As goes the heavyweight division, so goes boxing…”
Well, newly-appointed HBO Sports chief Ken Hershmann sounds like a man who doesn’t fully subscribe to that age old maxim.
“(The heavyweight division) has just languished for so long,” Hershmann told journalist Keith Idec of The Record. “It’s really no fault of the [...]
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