Word: boxer
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...then there is an anomaly named Mike Tyson. A TV movie about the wayward boxer's life, which airs this month on hbo, deftly portrays the former world heavyweight champion as a ruined young man devoid of the sportsman's archetypal inner drive. Witness an Iron Mike without an iron will...
What Tyson fails to do is offer us any insight into the boxer's complicated psychology. Tyson's rape of a 19- year-old beauty contestant, the crime for which he has just finished serving three years in prison, is dramatized only briefly at the end of the film. During the course of the story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife...
...premiere guide to the nation's professional playing fields. Though he entered sportscasting in 1953 through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell it like it is" brought a refreshing skepticism to the traditionally bland idolatry of "color" commentary. Ultimately, however, Cosell...
...Every boxer needs a fist, and every lacrosse team needs a scorer...
...they must have ended up fleeing in their shorts!" Some, in fact, had done exactly that. Nam Pham, venturing into the streets of Saigon on April 29 before shoving aboard a barge at the river docks, noticed among the crowds a number of young men clad in nothing but boxer shorts...