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The Shocking Truth About Malcolm ?Flash? Gordon

Eliot Scher, an avid train enthusiast, is the proud owner of an impressive model train collection. His basement is a treasure trove of Pullm…

Thu, 21 Mar 2019

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Why Did I Fight?

I was, by nature, a gentle kid?just like my real father, a genteel songwriter. But I had a real good punch, quick reflexes, a granite chin, …

Mon, 09 Jul 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 7 of 7)

Yes?there is something about boxing that captures the essence of being human. Boxing is brutal?graceful?painful?magnificent?terrible?triumph…

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 6 of 7)

President Reagan appropriated Jack Dempsey?s iconic phrase when he spoke to his wife as he was lying in a hospital bed: ?Honey, I forgot to …

Sat, 26 May 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 5 of 7)

These intelligent and insightful people?like you?are willing to see past boxing?s blemishes and warts to glean beauty, determination, and co…

Sat, 05 May 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 4 of 6)

Here are the next twenty luminaries who go against the grain and unabashedly embrace boxing?America?s most popularly despised sport? ?Boxing…

Tue, 27 Mar 2018

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My Thoughts at Ringside

Boxing is about suffering, enduring pain, and subjecting oneself to possible humiliation in order to seek, in the end, something like a stat…

Tue, 06 Mar 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 3 of 6)

?When I was growing up, Norman Mailer?s boxing writing gave me the license to follow the sport: he made boxing an intellectually acceptable …

Fri, 02 Mar 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 2 of 6)

Why are so many gifted artists, talented entertainers, and brilliant scholars attracted to such a primal-scream sport? Boxing is a primal-sc…

Sat, 03 Feb 2018

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Boxing Fans Unite! Aristotle?Einstein?And You! (Part 1 of 5)

Listed here?the first of a five-part series?are names of well-known luminaries from all walks of life who are boxing fans. Some names might …

Thu, 18 Jan 2018

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My Most Vivid Memory of the New Bobby Gleason?s Boxing Gym at 130 Water Street (Part 4 of 4)

I am no longer under boxing?s spell. I?m not sure I even like the damn sport anymore. But boxing has crawled deep inside me and has stayed t…

Sun, 08 Oct 2017

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My Most Vivid Memory of the Original Bobby Gleason?s Boxing Gym

I?ll miss boxing because the ring was the birthplace of my confidence; the launching pad of my identity. With boxing gloves I never stuttere…

Fri, 11 Aug 2017

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Bufano?s Gym?A Small Factory Where Men?s Muscles Were Made

From the 1950s through the 1990s, Bufano?s was a boxing hotbed, a big name in boxing circles. Now, it?s so small it fits only inside my head…

Sat, 24 Jun 2017

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The Boxer Who Changed My Life

Some people we meet in life change us so profoundly that we are never the same afterwards?that?s what happened to me the night I met Larry G…

Tue, 06 Jun 2017

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Twenty Rules for Retiring From Boxing?Graciously

Boxing and childhood are intertwined. Show me an ex-boxer and I?ll show you an unhappy childhood? Retirement is a time of happiness, a chanc…

Mon, 26 Dec 2016

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?Rest in Peace, Coach?

?Before a man can become a good boxer he must believe in himself. There?s no skill without confidence and no confidence without skill?? The …

Sat, 26 Nov 2016

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Max Baer and Barney Ross ? Jewish Heroes of Boxing

While recounting the exploits of these two men, the pages of ?Jewish Heroes of Boxing? are replete with fascinating cameo appearances? Jewis…

Thu, 17 Nov 2016

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Desperately Seeking Oscar

Boxers have an aura of nobility and menace that titillated my soul. I?ve seen presidents, media moguls, and Hollywood stars, kowtow to champ…

Mon, 22 Aug 2016

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?Sugar Ray? is Back in Harlem!

Boxers are men who turn their psychological problems into a paycheck. And Robinson was pretty good at receiving paychecks? Sugar Ray Robinso…

Mon, 28 Mar 2016

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The Seductive Id of Boxing?

Norman Mailer once called the rarest athlete in sports ?The Big Toe of God.? Certainly a lofty honorific ? sublime and sacred? In 1949, when…

Tue, 29 Dec 2015