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May 28, 2006
Tree Falls
In a story whose opening line is just bracingly gorgeous, the Manila Post reports on the training plans of Erik Morales. A third Pacquiao/Morales fight would be an easy candidate for "fight of the year," but "fight of the year" is only slightly more presitigious than the the OBIE award (not to be confused with the genuinely presitious Obie Award - go figure). Everybody should care about this fight; they should show it on ABC's Wide World of Sports; films of the fight should show in movie theaters for weeks afterwards, with exciting second features about dangerous excursions to the Congo and so forth. But fight films died out in the 1940s and are mainly remembered as an obscure footnote in the history of race relations and interstate commerce, and Wide World of Sports has been walking wounded for years. So much the better, maybe? After all, Manny and Erik will both get plenty paid; who suffers if most of the world doesn't notice one of the most exciting rivalries in years? Conflicting impulses here. Best wishes to Erik Morales, anyhow, enjoying all that mountain air.
Posted by jd at 09:34 PM
May 22, 2006
Against Ingrates
Do your thing, man. Picture of the year, according to the staff here at MMT.
Posted by jd at 08:34 PM
May 12, 2006
Final Count
Rest in peace, Floyd Patterson. A class act by most accounts, though yet another in a long list of boxers who didn't know when to say "when."
I lost my aunt this week, too - any stray readers around these parts, think kindly of her; she deserved better than she got down here.
Posted by jd at 12:00 AM