GRAPEVINE, TEXAS?I thought we’d be carving up the Thanksgiving pavo next but I could be wrong as our now familiar host hotel, the Gaylord Texan, exploded into the Christmas spirit on Friday.
They call their theme a ?Lone Star Christmas,? meaning the usual holiday trappings but with a Texas bent or twang.
It includes 1.5 million holiday lights; a life-size Gingerbread House; visits by the ever popular Santa Claus and Jinkee, oops, I mean Mrs. Claus; a 50-foot rotating Christmas tree rotating in one of the three atriums; Toy Soldiers; a ?Charlie Brown Christmas? bit and more, all of being lapped up by parents and kiddies with video and regular cameras in tow.
If you look at the video below, showing Antonio Margarito hammering Miguel Cotto in their final round, you might have great fear and apprehension about Manny Pacquiao getting his lights put out by the Mexican Mauler this evening (Saturday) at Texas Stadium.
Your worries are needless but understandable.
This fight, this buildup, started as a passion play (wow, is Easter next?) and is finishing as one.
We started with Margarito’s desperate three state bid?Nevada, California and finally Friendly Texas?to get a boxer’s license. His vociferous advocate was Bob Arum, promoter of both Manny and Marg and a guy who is loathe to let outsid
