Tim Keown
9 articles · ESPN
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After Ugas bout, Manny Pacquiao will face his toughest fight yet
HE IS A quiet man, content to observe, and his manner gives him the air of the mystic. As everything around Manny Pacquiao moves -- quickly, and solely for his benefit --…
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A week in Manila with Manny Pacquiao: senator, boxer … and future president?
SENATOR MANNY PACQUIAO is sitting in the second row of a black government Escalade, his left foot on the center console, a 9 mm handgun in the seatback in front of him.…
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‘He thrives on this’: The adulation that drives Manny Pacquiao
THE SCENE NEVER changes. Go back five years, 10 years, and you'll see. Some of the people change, sure, and the trees have grown and the streets are more congested. The man…
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Boxing’s strange and unresolved morality play
There was a great disconnect on display in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In the MGM Grand Garden Arena, while Floyd Mayweather was surgically deconstructing the last vestiges of Manny Pacquiao's boxing…
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Cash for cred
WHY BIEBER? It's the question everyone asks every time Justin Bieber flanks Floyd Mayweather on the boxer's ring walk. A brief exchange between the two before Mayweather's Sept. 14 bout against Canelo…
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Pacquiao’s loss is Mayweather’s gain
Here's an unintended and unexpected consequence of Timothy Bradley's farcical win over Manny Pacquiao: The biggest winner is a guy sitting in a jail cell. How perfectly boxing. Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn't…
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Boxing keeps knocking itself out
It is now entirely reasonable to assume that the sport of boxing is engaged in a concerted, systematic effort to kill itself off. And there is good news for those tasked with…
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The maneuvering between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is downright kooky
For those of us who long for the days when boxing was the sporting world's crazy uncle, the past few weeks have provided us with a nice hit of nostalgia. Scurrilous allegations,…
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One Super marketing opportunity
The Super Bowl officially began for me when Brian Urlacher stepped off the Bears' airplane holding a drink of some sort with a bold "54" distinctly visible on the label. That, ladies…
