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Entries tagged with "Barney+Ross":

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• The Boy from Brazil: Eder Jofre – January 8th, 2012

  There was always something to admire, something to cherish, something to make the blood tingle in Jofre's fights...
  
  

• Unforgettable Greatness: Tony Canzoneri – January 19th, 2012

  "Sure it was worth it," said Canzoneri, "every drop of blood and every stitch of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way...”
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• Barney Ross/Yuri Foreman: “The Chosen” – April 3rd, 2012

  Barney Ross ran errands for Al Capone and hustled for gamblers and pimps, but it was never enough...