Sunday, November 11, 2007

Norman Mailer: 1923-2007

Some words from around the world about Norman Mailer, boxing writer and novelist, who died Saturday at age 84:

Original book review: The Fight (1975), by Norman Mailer, in the New York Times:
"American literary giant," by Philip Marchand, Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/275456

"Writer Who Never Put Down His Fists," by Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Norman Mailer: "The Writer as Writer," by Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Obituary, BBC News

In case you missed it: The World has a New Cruiserweight Champ (Briefly)

While everyone was thinking about the big welterweight fight in New York -- in Paris, Englishman David Haye knocked out Frenchman Jean-Marc Mormeck to become global cruiserweight champ. Then he said he'll move up to heavyweight.

Only in America!



Friday, November 9, 2007

What's Not to Like About Cotto vs. Mosley?


Some clips by BWAA members about the Miguel Cotto - Shane Mosley fight and its undercard, coming Saturday night at Madison Square Garden:

Tim Smith, New York Daily News: "Antonio Margarito Wants Another Title Shot"
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2007/11/09/2007-11-09_antonio_margarito_wants_another_title_sh.html

Bill Gallo, New York Daily News: "Boxing Showing Signs of Life"

Dan Rafael, ESPN.com
Video Breakdown
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3100144&categoryId=2491554
Cotto still trying to shake comparisons to Trinidad
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/notebook?page=notebook/boxingnov9


George Willis, New York Post: "Margarito's Focused"

Bernard Fernandez, Philadelphia Daily News, "Fighting Words Pack a Punch"
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/columnists/20071106_Bernard_Fernandez___Fightin_words_pack_a_punch.html

Wally Matthews, Newsday: "Mosley: I Will Win Dramatically"

Keith Idec, Herald News: "Mosley Knows Low Blows May Be Coming"

Robert Morales, San Gabriel Valley Tribune: "Mosley Prepares for Clean Fight"

Kieran Mulvaney, ESPN.com: "Small Town Kid Hoping for Big Things to Come"

Patrick Kehoe, BoxingScene.com: "Is The Sugar Still Sweet For Shane Mosley"

Keith Idec, Herald News: "Cheaper Cotto-Mosley Tickets Available"

Don Steinberg, ESPN.com, "Cotto-Mosley: Haven't We Seen This Before?"
http://proxy.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3094554

George Kimball, Boxingtalk.com: "Cotto-Mosley: Who is Fast and Who is Furious?"

Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Two Jack Mosleys

Don't know about you, but for me it's hard to hear anything about Shane Mosley's dad, Jack Mosley, without hearing in my head the name spoken in Mos Def's awesome voice, in the movie 16 Blocks, in which Bruce Willis plays a cop named Jack Mosley.