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...BOXING Featherweight boxer Somluck Khamsing became a national hero after winning Thailand's first-ever gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games. As a reward, his adoring country even paid him a $1.6 million bonus. But Somluck's mercurial training habits caught up with him, and he was easily defeated in the Sydney quarterfinals. The former champ has made ends meet in recent years by hosting a TV game show, opening a BBQ restaurant and recording a hit album with two fellow fighters called Three Boxers Become Singers. Now, however, the 31-year-old is making his comeback after...
Last fall, in southern Iraq, a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official approached Maurice (Termite) Watkins, 47, at breakfast. Watkins, a professional boxer turned pest-control contractor, had spent the previous six months killing scorpions and camelback spiders around U.S. military bases and reconstruction sites in Iraq. The official, regional coordinator Mike Gfoeller, had heard that Watkins could fight more than mosquitoes. "What are the odds of you getting an Iraqi boxer qualified for the Olympics?" Gfoeller asked. Termite spoke from the heart. "About one in a million...
...Charles, who died last week at 73, was born with the last name Robinson but dropped it to avoid being confused with the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. The two had a lot in common--Charles had taken as many hits in life as any pugilist. According to Jet magazine, Ray's mother told him, before she died when he was 15, "You might not be able to do things like a person who can see. But there are always two ways to do everything. You've just got to find the other...
...irreverent Plimpton was best known as the author of more than two dozen books about his eclectic stints as a boxer, hockey goalie, orchestral percussionist, trapeze artist and pyrotechnic...
...newly stylish male, customers are flocking for fashion help. “Sometimes I really have to work from the bottom up,” Mountain says. “I’ll want to get someone into a slimmer jean and they’ll have huge boxer shorts on. Then we have to send them downstairs to try on a pair of snug fitting boxer briefs.” Fashion is the kind of business in which having suitable individual items—like the right undies—is critical in supporting the whole package...