Manila

Manny Pacquiao started his pro career here.

This entry was written by admin, posted on September 29, 2010 at 11:09 am, filed under Boxing, PacMan and tagged . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.



Nike “Boom”

Nike \”Boom\” Commercial, featuring Pacquiao

This entry was written by Poole, posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:13 am, 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.



The Fighter

The trailer for “The Fighter” was released today and the Los Angeles Times has already started with the Oscar buzz.  The movie, about “Irish” Mickey Ward, comes out in December and stars Mark Wahlberg (Ward) and Christian Bale.  Both guys have spent time at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card in Hollywood.  (Same place Pacquiao trains when he is in the United States.)

This entry was written by Poole, posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:45 pm, filed under Boxing. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.



Mayweather Rant Controversy

I was on ABS-CBN (large Filipino TV network) today talking about the Mayweather controversy, and my book.  And follow up story on the ABS-CBN Website–“Writer says Floyd’s tirade shows fear.”

This entry was written by Poole, posted on September 9, 2010 at 10:47 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.



America’s Game

Football practice: a photograph from Ansel Adams’s images from the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar.  Source:  The Library of Congress.

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How Boxing Became a Niche Sport

My latest article in The Atlantic:  “How Boxing Became a Niche Sport.”

This entry was written by Poole, posted on September 7, 2010 at 12:06 pm, filed under Boxing, Sports. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.



Mayweather Rants Against Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s racist rant against pound-for-pound champion Manny Pacquiao was caught on tape and became another strange and disturbing chapter in the non-fight of the century.  Mayweather eventually apologized saying he was just “having fun.”   As Pacquiao said, “I don’t need him, he needs me.  Compare my achievements in boxing to his achievements.”  As for the video, Pacquiao took his typically classy approach to the video, in which Mayweather called him a “Filipino midget” and a “yellow chump.”  Said Pacquiao:  “Because of his attack on my dignity and by exposing his ignorance, people have given more notice to my fight.”  Pacquiao will be fighting Antonio Margarito on November 13.

This entry was written by Poole, posted on September 2, 2010 at 11:10 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.



The Galloping Ghost

The (Champaign, Illinois) News-Gazette asked me to write a small article on Red Grange’s extraordinary performance against Michigan in 1924.  (The piece ran in Sunday’s paper and can be found on-line, too.) The game helped change the course of American sports history.  And in other Galloping Ghost news:  Larger Than Life:  The Red Grange Story, a documentary about Grange, has received an Emmy nomination.  It was fun to be a part of it.  (The photo of Grange’s uniform was taken at the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections.  Wheaton was an essential and valuable resource in the writing of my book, The Galloping Ghost.)

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