Bernard Fernandez
134 articles · Philadelphia Daily News
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Boxing at Cowboys Stadium is no surprise
Little-known fact about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: He once was a boxing promoter. In 1984, just five years before he purchased the NFL's most globally recognizable brand, Jones staged a fight…
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Jerry Jones touting Cowboys stadium as major fight site
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: He once was a boxing promoter. In 1984, just 5 years before he purchased the NFL's most globally recognizable brand, Jones staged a fight…
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Two Nice Consolation Prizes
It is the age-old question, one that has puzzled mankind for what seems like forever. All right, so maybe the foremost such puzzler is “Why did the chicken cross the road?,” but…
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Pacquiao, Mayweather fights separate but equally hyped
NEW YORK - Imagine you are the owner of the Hope Diamond or some similarly large, one-of-a-kind gem. Now imagine that circumstances dictate that you turn that stone over to a diamond-cutter…
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Conte Volunteers To Catch Cheaters If He Can
Victor Conte might not bear much of a resemblance to Leonardo DiCaprio, but the controversial founder and president of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, better known to the public as BALCO, is…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao are foolish to throw away millions
PHILADELPHIA — Toward the end of every calendar year, the Darwin Awards document incidents of human behavior so preposterous that the only conclusion is that the winners never made it very far…
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Mayweather, Pacquiao foolish to throw away millions
TOWARD THE END of every calendar year, the Darwin Awards document incidents of human behavior so preposterous that the only conclusion is that the winners never made it very far up the…
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Atlantic City boxing has become a mere jab compared to the punch of the 1980s
ATLANTIC CITY - Butch Lewis was telling a story about the late, great comedian Richard Pryor, a story he found so amusing, you would have thought Pryor himself was relating it onstage…
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Hopkins shows boxing still matters, despite tragedies
Mark Twain once observed that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. The same might be said of boxing in 2009, which is enjoying a notable rebirth after years of decline…
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RODRIGUEZ’ DEATH REMINDER OF HOW MUCH BOXERS RISK
There is a scene in The Godfather– the 1972 classic I reference often because it’s such a damn fine example of moviemaking and also because of its parallels to so many situations…
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Rock Newman Knows The Best Fights Aren’t Always Made
There is a scene in the 1972 film classic, The Godfather, in which Michael Corleone, temporarily exiled to Sicily while his family engages in a bloody mob war back in America, is…
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White’s UFC everything boxing isn’t
Dana White isn't King of the World -- not yet, anyway -- but the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship wields a monarch's power over his particular domain. White doesn't even own the…
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UFC’s White may have some answers to boxing’s pressing questions and jabs
My esteemed Philadelphia Daily News colleague, Bill Conlin, often begins his columns by musing, "When I'm King of the World . . ." Dana White isn't King of the World - not…
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Boxing should bow to UFC’s Dana White
MY ESTEEMED Daily News colleague, Bill Conlin, often begins his columns by musing, "When I'm King of the World . . . " Dana White isn't King of the World - not…
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Gatti, Like MJ And McNair, Left Us Too Soon
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. ---A.E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying…
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Real Men Of Honor
For many Americans ? too many ? Memorial Day means a backyard barbecue, or a pleasant day spent at the beach or a ballpark when they otherwise would be at work or…
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Pacquiao-Hatton: A matchup with global appeal
THERE LIKELY won't be anyone chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" in America's living rooms or in the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas during Saturday night's pay-per-view matchup of junior welterweights Manny Pacquiao and…
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The Bernies! 1st Annual Year-End Awards
Editor Michael Woods has requested that I write an article listing my personal end-of-the-year awards in boxing for posting on TSS. Normally, there would be no problem with such an assignment, except…
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Bernard Fernandez: Is Pacquiao the next Golden Boy?
IT'S A GOOD thing Manny Pacquiao was able to easily handle those additional pounds he put on for Saturday night's bravura performance against Oscar De La Hoya, because by winning so convincingly…
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Manny Pacquiao’s No Secret Anymore
The great revelations that shape our way of thinking almost never come in the form of a burning bush or dreams in which angels imprint some divine truth upon our subconscious minds.…
