The Cruelest Sport took some time off over the last week due to the amount of insignificant subjects puffed up into near-Biblical proportions by the press.. The number of misspelled words spent on Antonio Tarver, for example, was ridiculous, even by boxing media non-standards. So were the absurd ?previews? and ?predictions? surrounding the Vitali Klitschko-Shannon Briggs mismatch, a fight that went off with Briggs settling in as a comfy 11-1 underdog. In fact, there are still articles being written about the ?upswing? in pay-per-view undercards! Reading a Chinese take out menu is more interesting than trying to keep up with the various boxing Pulitzer reporters and columnists out there. So, in the end, I merely gave up and put TCS on hold.
