ESPN is reporting that both Leonard Ellerbe and Golden Boy President Richard Schaefer have confirmed that negotations are off between the Mayweather and Pacquiao camps due to a notification by the Pacquiao camp that they will pursue a 4th fight with Juan Manuel Marquez rather than a May 5 date with Mayweather. “We have been informed […]
A Filipino Web designer whose site can be found at www.giejose.com has come up with the solution to the Paccquiao-Marquez debate and controversy. I think he’s a genius. I have been giving so much thought to this lately, and writing so many words — and he has managed to solve it much more simply […]
Dear Manny,
First, thank you for all that you have done to elevate the spirits of a nation, and to inspire boxing and sportsfans worldwide. I remember years ago when I first became aware of you and your amazing talents. I recall thinking at the time that you very well might rise to the very […]
I was wondering about what the mood was in the Pacquiao locker room, and later among team Pacquiao, in the aftermath of experiencing the boos of the crowd at the end of his trilogy bout with Juan Manuel Marquez fight all but drowned out Pacquiao’s post fight interview with Max Kellerman. Fair or not, they […]
With the controversy over Manny Pacquiao’s majority decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez not going away any time soon, it’s time to get out the round by round scorecards, and the round by round Compubox stats, and start doing some detailed analysis to understand what the judges saw, what Compubox saw — and why both […]
In the aftermath of Manny Pacquiao’s narrow majority decision victory over Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez last night, Pacquiao’s hall of fame trainer Freddie Roach was shocked that his prediction of a knockout of Juan Manuel Marquez didn’t happen and grudgingly acknowledged that Marquez is due a 4th shot at Pacquiao as the two sides try […]
I’ve been scanning the web for the articles on PMIII and frankly a lot of them are just stupid. But one seems to me to capture the essence of the moment, so props go out to Bryan Armen Gamen and Sports Illustrated for an insightful look at PMIII:
LAS VEGAS — It was close.
That […]
In Hollywood they’re always talking about “subtext” — well, here’s the subtext of the Penn State scandal and it’s pretty depressing. As they begin to dig and dig into this situation, what is going to emerge is that a lot of people in the Penn State football program knew that Sandusky was bad news starting […]
The Pacquiao-Marquez III official scorecards are out and it’s always interesting in a fight like this to see exactly how many rounds were unanimous, and how many involved split judgment by the judges. In the fight tonight, the judges were unanimous in the their scoring in the following rounds: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7. All […]
Much will be written in coming days about the just-concluded trilogy bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez in which Pacquiao escaped with a split decision, prompting Marquez and his trainer Nacho Berestain to once again claim they’ve been robbed. Having just conducted an exhausting review of the first two fights (see
There was a full house of 5,500 screaming fans on hand for the weigh-in between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grrand in Las Vegas. Check it out.
When I took Pacquiao-Marquez I and broke it down via a “Preponderance of Evidence” scorecard that correlated the judges’ round by round cards; compubox round by round stats; and intangibles, I didn’t quite know what I was getting into. It took me two nights and a morning to get it done. Now it’s fight […]
The Las Vegas oddsmakers have made Manny Pacquiao anywhere from a 7-1 to 10-1 favorite in his trilogy fight tonight against Juan Manuel Marquez – but all that does is establish that there is a lot more optimism among the Filipino betting public than their Mexican counterparts. What do the experts actually think? Here’s a […]
De La Hoya says superfight has 'never been closer' – Yahoo! Sports – sports.yahoo.com 11/12/2011 De La Hoya says superfight has 'never been closer'Yahoo! Sports“I am very optimistic now,” De La Hoya said, as Pacquiao finalized his preparations for his Saturday night clash with Juan Ma more…
Ever since I started drilling down into the Penn State situation, I’ve had a nagging feeling that we may only be seeing the tip of a very ugly iceberg that may, in the end, make the immediate and unceremonious dumping of Joe Paterno and University President Graham Spanial start to make more sense. I hope […]
Today is Veteran’s Day and I’ve been thinking about my father, gone for almost 40 years now. It is almost inconceivable that it’s been that long, but it has. He was a career Army officer, and was serving as a Province Senior Advisor in Vietnam at the time of his death. Like all others who […]
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Or did it? Tiger Woods is 9 under par and leading the Australian Open after two rounds, which is quite a novel development considering the way he has played for most of the last two (winless) years. He birdied the 10th, 13th and 14th holes (his first, […]
Joe Paterno is out, tossed aside like so much rubbish after 62 years of extraordinary service to Penn State. But Mike McQueary who actually saw the sexual assault that resulted in the ouster of Penn State’s legendary coach and did nothing about it other than tell Paterno, is still coaching for Penn State and apparently […]
For the next five days I’ll be posting an article feed of 50 articles a day on Pacquiao-Marquez III, scheduled for November 12. Here is today’s feed:
Pacquiao, Marquez trainers address doping issue – AFP – google.com 11/11/2011 Crave Online (blog)Pacquiao, Marquez trainers address doping issueAFPLAS VEGAS, Nevada — Trainers for Manny […]
Word comes from the music universe that classic rock’s pre-eminent ballad, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, has turned 40. Bringing with it 8 minutes and two seconds of music that starts out as a haunting folk song, progresses through a bluesish mid-section, and then ends up with as a high octane arena rock shriek fest, […]
As the November 12 trilogy bout between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez draws closer, it’s only natural to think about their previous fights and want to revisit them — after all, only 1 point separates them on the judge’s scorecards after 24 rounds of epic boxing. A number of boxing journalists and bloggers have […]
Gareth Davies has an excellent piece in the Telegraph which is mostly an interview of Bob Arum in which you really get to hear Arum — a supersmart 80 year old attorney — speaking from the heart, not wearing his promoter hat. I really found this illuminating — he talks mostly about Manny Pacquiao’s larger […]
The streets of State College, Pennsylvania, began to fill with students in the minutes and hours after word spread the legendary head coach Joe Paterno had been fired by the Board of Trustees on Wednesday night. Report follows.
STATE COLLEGE, PA.—Riot police were on standby Wednesday night after news spread that long-time Penn State football […]
I thought I’d seen all the Pacquiao docus and video clips, but this strange little video from Gulfnews, out of Abu Dhabi, has more interesting footage and interviews in it than anything I’ve seen in awhile. The reporter/videographer seems to be Filipino, but the intended audience is international. All in all, an interesting find.
The Penn State board of trustees fired legendary Head Football Coach Joe Paterno tonight — this in spite of the fact that Paterno announced he would step down at the end of the season after an unprecedented 46 years as head coach and 62 years of dedicated service to the Penn State program. They did […]
Somebody forwarded me a collection of photos that have the effect of making you realize that you really don’t have a bad job, or a bad life, and things could be worse. You think otherwise? Take a look.
Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry’s instantly notorious brain freeze in tonight’s Republican presidential debate is immediately one of the all time most embarrassing moments in Presidential politics — right up there with Dukakis on the tank and John Kerry windsurfing, although to be sure, those were just weird visual juxtapositions, and this this is a […]
Fight week is on, and we’re three days for the trilogy fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. The oddsmakers have Pac-man a 7-1 favorite even though the two are separated by a single point after two epic bouts — a 2004 draw and a 2008 split decision won by Pacquiao by a single […]
Within hours of Penn State head coach Joe Paterno’s announcement today that he would retire at the end of this season in the wake of the child sexual abuse “tragedy” that has engulfed the Penn State football program, a CBS News poll was running 52-48 in favor or Penn State’s Board of Trustees forcing Paterno […]
