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Entries tagged with "Joyce+Carol+Oates":

• What Do Women Know? – May 1st, 2011

  "Boxing is for men, and is about men, and is men. A celebration of the lost art of masculinity all the more trenchant for being lost..."
  
  

• Postscript to a Bad Night in Vegas – September 20th, 2011

  Come with me as I return to the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas in 1976, a night grounded in the true pathos and ambivalence of boxing…
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• Pat Russell: Chicken or Egg – December 28th, 2011

  I wonder why the CSAC felt it was necessary that Pat Russell submit a report without the assistance of video…
  
  

• Ich Heisse Mike Tyson – January 2nd, 2012

  
  
  

• George Plimpton Awarded the Liebling – January 5th, 2012

  Prima donnas are great in grand opera, but not so grand when it comes to a great sport like boxing…
  
  

• George Bellows' Stag at Sharkey’s – January 16th, 2012

  "I am not interested in the morality of prize fighting. But let me say that the atmosphere around the fighters is a lot more immoral than the fighters themselves…"