Boxing Live Blog: Mayweather-Ortiz – Wall Street Journal (blog) – blogs.wsj.com 09/18/2011 Yahoo! Eurosport UKBoxing Live Blog: Mayweather-OrtizWall Street Journal (blog)From what I understand, Mayweather is guaranteed around $25 million, and Ortiz only a little over $2 million. (No wonder more… Age not just […]
Mayweather – Ortiz Week After… by George Elsasser – BraggingRightsCorner – braggingrightscorner.com 09/25/2011 Bleacher ReportMayweather – Ortiz Week After… by George ElsasserBraggingRightsCornerNext up for sure, will be the push for a Mayweather- Pacquiao bonanza with both HBO and Showtime vying for the PPV more… RSSdoodle […]
Mayweather wants Merchant out – New York Post – nypost.com 09/24/2011 Bleacher ReportMayweather wants Merchant outNew York PostHe meant it too. The entire Mayweather-Ortiz fight and the postfight interview will be replayed tonight on HBO at 9:45 EDT. Don't be surpri more… RSSdoodle by
Sorry, but does it seem like every time they make any changes on Facebook, the whining is so loud it just about drowns out any ability to appreciate the innovations that are being introduced? For the last couple of days I’ve been reading non-stop accounts of what’s wrong with the new changes. Really?
Here’s what […]
Every once in awhile someone comes along who just makes a lot of sense, and Elizabeth Warren is one of those. I’ve been listening to her for several years now — previously as she worked s a financial reform advisor to the Obama White House; now in her new incarnation as a Senate candidate in […]
Guerrero faces shoulder rehab, talks welterweight future – Crave Online (blog) – ringtv.craveonline.com 09/21/2011 ABC NewsGuerrero faces shoulder rehab, talks welterweight futureCrave Online (blog)RingTV.com: What are your thoughts on the ending of Mayweather-Ortiz? RG: Keep your hands up at all times. I think vi more…
Since 1985 Denise Herzing and the Wild Dolphin Project have been breaking new ground by studying a group of approximately 100 dolphins in the Bahamas in their natural habitat — tracking their lives, relationships, offspring, and studying their communication and socialization. Think of her as the Jane Goodall of dolphins and you’ll have a […]
It looks like it’s going to be very busy on the boxing scene the next couple of months with the ongoing brouhaha over Mayweather-Ortiz-Cortez and the buildup to Pacquiao-Marquez, so out of deference to those readers who are NOT boxing fans, I’ve decided to give the boxing posts a home of their own at MS-Boxing.com […]
I finally found a video clip of Floyd Mayweather’s post-fight rant against Manny Pacquiao and I have to say, watching it is quite a bit more revealing than just reading the words. This is a few minutes before Mayweather burst into tears and you can already hear the catch in his voice that’s a clue […]
Referee Joe Cortez has been getting plenty of heat from all sides since Saturday night’s controversial finish to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. As Sunday wore on, the concensus seemed to be growing that it was Cortez who should bear a significant portion of the blame for the debacle, for not giving clear instructions to the boxers […]
There is plenty of blame to go around for the bizarre and disappointing finish to the Mayweather-Ortiz fight. This morning I’ve been looking online for clear explanations of exactly what happened, and more importantly, exactly what the role of fight refereee Joe Cortez was in the debacle. While it is true that “protect yourself at […]
Manny Pacquiao’s advisor Michel Koncz emerged from a Manila Hotel where he watched the Mayweather-Ortiz fight with Manny Pacquiao and provided the first insight into Pacman’s reaction to the bizarre ending to the fight in which Mayweather sucker punched Ortiz while the latter was apologizing for head-butting Mayweather in the fourth round of the fight […]
The Mayweather Ortiz fight is over in bizarre fashion, producing a moment second only to Mike Tyson biting a chunk out of Evander Holyfield’s ear in terms of outlandishness. Although Mayweather was the author of the bizarreness, to be sure, the sequence started with Ortiz head-butting Mayweather in apparent frustration as he pummeled Mayweather in […]
The air show accident yesterday in Reno is still reverberating — at this writing, the death toll has risen to 9 including pilot Jimmy Leeward, and with the high number of victims in critical condition there will clearly be more loss of life. Since this began to unfold yesterday afternoon, I’ve been thinking not only […]
The Dutchman was written by Michael Peter Smith in 1968 and became a minor but intensely appreciated hit (in folk/acoustic circles anyway) in America by Steve Goodman — over the years it has gained a following, to the point that’s now become a true folk song, sung and loved around the world, with cover versions […]
I was browsing youtube videos of Ralph McTell and found that there were clips of him singing his classic “Streets of London” during pretty much each decade of his life from the he wrote it — 70’s, 80’s, 90’s — and then a nice interview of him in 2008 talking about the song and what […]
Freddie Aguilar is by no means the only Filipino artist on my short list of Filipino musicians I admire. I’m a big fan of Aegis, a Filipino girl band (sisters Juliet and Mercy Sunot headline it) who, like Freddie, bring forth music that seems to use an international vibe to create a “tunay na pilipino” […]
The just concluded promotional tour that saw Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez travel from Manila, to the US, then Mexico City, has prompted a flurry of articles (most, but not all, by Filipino writers) to the effect that Manny was welcomed with an open embrace by Mexicans, who showed him as much love as […]
The Presidency of Barack Obama
[Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the Houghton-Nguyen-Acevedo 12th grade American History high school ebook text published in 2111)
The Bush Presidency, with its aggressively militaristic response to the Al Qaeda attacks and anti-intellectual bent, left Americans ready for a change of tone and approach in Washington, and […]
Just as Freddie Aguilar was there singing “Bayan Ko” at the EDSA Revolution for Cory Aquino, and just as John Stewart was there singing songs of hope for Bobby Kennedy — so too was the extraordinary Tunisian singer/songwriter Amel Mathluthi (alternate spelling Amal Mahluthi) at the barricades for Tunisia last January in support of the […]
Out of nowhere, a few minutes ago, I was browsing Youtube for more John Stewart songs (scroll down one post and you’ll see why), when all of a sudden there was a song that had completely flown out of my consciousness — but which had been one the very very original songs that made me […]
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of John Stewart, the legendary songwriter who inspired me on more levels that I can begin to explain. He left us in 2008 but he’s not gone: his voice, his spirit and his ideas continue. I originally wrote this tribute on what would have been his 72nd […]
Year of the Spy Book Trailer
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