My Atlantic review of HBO’s The Curious Case of Curt Flood and ShowTime’s The Franchise.

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My article in today’s The Atlantic — Meet Boxing’s Great White, Rich, Notre Dame-Educated Hope – about Mike Lee.

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George Kimball, one of our era’s great boxing writers, died yesterday, July 6, 2011.

I met George for the first and last time a few months ago. It would be at one of his final book readings. We were in a basement club in New York talking about boxing and our books. Actually, George wasn’t really talking. He had been diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer in the summer of 2005 and he didn’t look well. Cancer had made it impossible for him to speak at any length of time so he had an actor record a passage from a profile of Lenny DeJesus, the New York cutman and trainer. There was something haunting about listening to the piece that way. As he listened to his own piece of writing, it seemed to me that he was proud of it, but also interested in the reaction of the audience. He looked like a kid waiting for the approval of a father. He obviously still cared about writing, and it was inspiring to me. George’s profile was a meticulous piece of writing, but, in all honesty, the event was depressing because it felt like nobody cared about boxing books. Only a handful of people showed up, I probably went on too long about the dismal state of the sweet science and my adventures with Manny Pacquiao, and George didn’t look very well. He was determined to come to the reading, however, and he signed copies of his latest–and last–book, At the Fights American Writers On Boxing. (He wrote a nice inscription to me calling me “Pacquiao’s Boswell,” which I will treasure always.)

Kimball, if you’re not aware of his work, spent more than two decades at the Boston Herald, and also wrote for the Irish Times. He wrote beautifully about boxing and penned an outstanding book about the sport: Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing (2008).

At the end of the evening, that night in April, I exchanged a few words with George and expressed my admiration for his writing. He smiled and shook my hand. Before I left, I talked to a friend who had accompanied him to the reading. She told me George was still making plans for articles, still trying to get to the boxing gym to hear the stories, and to turn them into prose. He was a writer, a boxing writer, to the end.

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Manny Pacquiao fought Shane Mosley on May 7. I covered it (“When Will Manny Pacquiao Fight the Right American?”) for TIME and I also wrote an article about the bout for The Atlantic.

Leading up to the fight, I was interviewed on several radio programs, including the BBC and the nationally syndicated (250 affiliates) JT The Brick show, and on the national news in the Philippines. The Atlantic also included me in a piece about the current state of boxing.

Pacquiao will fight again in November. He will probably face Juan Manuel Marquez.

This entry was written by Poole, posted on May 16, 2011 at 12:11 pm, filed under Boxing, PacMan. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

I gave a reading recently in New York about PacMan: Behind The Scenes with Manny Pacquiao (Da Capo). Here is the interview with me. Here is the link to my book on Amazon.

This entry was written by Poole, posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm, filed under PacMan. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

A piece I wrote for TIME.com relating to the crises in Japan:  On the West Coast, A Paranoid Run on Iodine Pills:  The news from Japan has tapped into irrational an fear of faraway disasters sneaking into California With the Speed of the Wind

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A short essay I wrote for TIME.com about the Japanese earthquake, and the threat of a tsunami hitting Los Angeles.

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PacMan:  Behind the Scenes With Manny Pacquiao (Da Capo) has been included in the Los Angeles Times Book Review section’s 2010 Books Gift Guide.  It is a great honor to be on this elite list, which includes books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Keith Richard’s Life, and some good sports books like Jane Leavy’s The Last Boy.  PacMan was one of only nine sports books on the list in 2010.

Also, The Guardian has recommended the PacMan as a top sports book.  “Gary Andrew Poole’s PacMan has something of both the breathless urgency of Pacquiao in the ring and the extraordinary chaos that accompanies him outside,” says Huw Richards of The Guardian.

This entry was written by Poole, posted on December 5, 2010 at 3:20 pm, filed under Boxing, PacMan, Sports, Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

The Long Fast Death of Manny Pacquiao, my latest in Esquire.

This entry was written by Poole, posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:22 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

Manny Pacquiao takes on Antonio Margarito tonight at Cowboys Stadium.  Follow the fight, at ringside, through my Tweets.

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