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A few months after redeeming himself by claiming the WBC Middlewight Championship from Carl Froch in a war of attrition, Danish Boxer Mikkel Kessler has exited Showtime’s Super-Six tournament citing eye injuries that will take him out of boxing completely for at least 9 months. According to his doctor, Gerhard Lang Kessler suffers from “a weakness of the superior oblique muscle of his left eye…To continue boxing, the muscle needs a proper rest, meaning no fighting or sparring for nine months.” This makes Kessler the second fighter to pull out of the tournament after Jermain Taylor suffered a concussion in the final round of his first round fight with Arthur Abraham.
Jermain Taylor was replaced by the unimpressive Allan Green, below are my picks for the most interesting options to replace Kessler:
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Mugabe and The White African is a documentary film produced by filmmakers Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The film documents the case of Mike Campbell, a 74-Year-old white Zimbabwean who filed a law suit against Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in order to halt the confiscation of his farm during the controversial Land Reform project that began in the late 1990′s.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, Mugabe and the White African is one of the best reviewed films of 2010. That fact, and the film itself caused me to attempt to examine my own personal prejudices as pertains to Zimbabwe’s present economic and political situation. Read the rest of this entry »
Click for Full Size. Believe it or not I get a lot of work done…
Kush and OJ on repeat…
One of the most interesting things I’ve found since I started working here at ASICS is the number of incredible pieces that just never saw the light of day for one reason or another. As a company that prides itself on creating the highest level of technical footwear, it often happens that a product is created in order to test a new technology but falls short and never goes into production.
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To those that haven’t been paying attention, the boxing world is afire over Floyd Mayweather’s silence in regards to a proposed mega fight with Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, set a deadline for Midnight Saturday before his company Top Rank would begin negotiating with two of their in house fighters–Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito–on Pacquiao’s behalf.
Mayweather has been uncharacteristically silent during this second round of negotiations. The first round earlier in the year was nixed when the two parties couldn’t come to terms over drug testing protocols. Mayweather demanded random, Olympic-style testing performed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, while Pacquiao claimed that blood tests too close to fight night would weaken him, even going far enough to blame his last defeat, to Erik Morales in 2005, on an 11th hour blood test.
Let me preface the rest of the post by saying I’m not a big fan of either fighter. Read the rest of this entry »
From a conversation with Journalist Thomas Hauser:
Muhammad Ali is humble in many ways, but he also takes pleasure in being famous.
Years ago, when Mike Tyson was in his prime, Ali asked me, “If I walked down one side of the street and Mike Tyson walked down the other, which of us would have more people on his side?”
“You would,” I answered honestly.
“If I walked down one side of the street and Bill Cosby walked down the other, who would have more people; Bill Cosby or me?”
“You.”
“If I walked down one side of the street and Little Richard, Chubby Checker and Chuck Berry all walked down the other, which side would have more people?”
“Yours.”
“Now Muhammad was on a roll.”
“If I walked down one side of the street and Elvis Presley walked down the other, who would have more people?”
“Muhammad, I’ll be honest with you,” I answered. “Overseas, you might. But here in the United States, I think it would be Elvis.”
That brought silence followed by, “Well, that’s because Elvis has been dead for a long time and people would want to see if it was really him.”
I’ve been listening to the Distant Relatives album, and I honestly think it’s Nas’ best work since God’s Son. The partnership with “Junior Gong” has him sharper and more revitalized than he has with recent albums and I think having a creative foil to work with has reigned in his often-loose lyrical content to create an album that is sonically and thematically tight and coherent. With that said, I’d like to propose some more collaborations that could bring the best out of Mr. Jones:
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