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A Great Fight Without the Mega Hype

Can we talk about boxing again? I know: there are serious baseball playoffs happening. The Cubs?the Cubs!?are in the National League Champio…

Thu, 15 Oct 2015

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Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.: The Absurdity Is at Hand

Behold: It is here, hours away, the Fight of Fights, proposed as a SuperFight (these days everything even mildly stimulating must be prefixe…

Fri, 01 May 2015

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Who Isn?t Sold on Pacquiao and Mayweather?

They didn?t need a news conference. They really didn?t. Yes: The press isn?t supposed to admit stuff like that?it?s treasonous! I?m going to…

Thu, 12 Mar 2015

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Pacquiao vs. Mayweather: It?s Real, Not Talk

Here it is?the big fight!?at long last, after years of skepticism, haggling, goading, taunting, self-inflicted snafus and exasperating near-…

Mon, 23 Feb 2015

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Will Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Happen?

You have to be (at least partly) a lunatic to believe it, you really do?to believe that this time, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are f…

Tue, 17 Feb 2015

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Trying to Keep Up With Manny Pacquiao

Los Angeles I want to know which idiot thought it was a good idea for me to go running at 6 a.m. Wednesday with Manny Pacquiao. OK: I am tha…

Thu, 13 Mar 2014

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Amid Crisis, Pacquiao Prepares

It was 9:44 a.m. in New York, 10:44 p.m. in the Philippines, and Freddie Roach was on the phone in a hotel room on the other side of the wor…

Thu, 14 Nov 2013

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Manny Pacquiao vs. the Vegan

Pretty soon the boxer will pass on the burger. He will deny the cheese. He will skip the sushi that he adores, and he will not?as Sylvester …

Mon, 27 Feb 2012

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On the Periphery of Boxing Madness

On Tuesday the undefeated champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. took to Twitter to challenge his most formidable potential opponent, Manny Pacquiao,…

Thu, 12 Jan 2012

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The Days and Nights of Manny

This is how boxing's most irresistible champion relaxes before a fight. Many athletes who reach fame and status flee to leafy suburbs and li…

Thu, 03 Nov 2011

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Manny Returns?Sporting a Bieber

Manny Pacquiao arrived at Chelsea Piers Monday dressed in suburban dad earth tones: a brown jacket, an olive sweater and a crisp white shirt…

Tue, 15 Feb 2011

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If Only Tiger Were More Like Pac-Man

He's back? humbly, weirdly. This week, nearly one year after the Fender Bender that Freaked the Planet, the rehabilitating Tiger Woods emerg…

Fri, 19 Nov 2010

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Cowboys Ride In On a Rented Mule

They are a Hot Kitchen of Dysfunction, a Deep-Fried Cupcake of Catastrophe, the Lamest Show on Turf. They should be showcased on a boardwalk…

Fri, 12 Nov 2010