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...really be a raging fire. It began with the Bay Area Lab Co-operative back in 2003, and has been slowly accelerating ever since. Given the ugliness surrounding our dear Barry “Balco” Bonds’ taking of the title of all-time homerun champ it would be an understatement to say that people don’t like this whole steroid business much. But there’s no avoiding it: With guys like wunderkind Rick Ankiel, Olympic hero Marion Jones, and Patriot Rodney Harrison all going down in the last few months, the question...
...comparison, the top ticket for the recent, much-ballyhooed fight between Oscar De la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West. Ibragimov did not display the stuff...
Princeton, the defending Ivy co-champ, has been putting up points in bunches, too, but its defense has been ineffective, surrendering 48 points to visiting Hampton last week and 32 to Columbia, of all teams, the week prior. Put me down for the upset...
...patrons huddled around the 42-inch flat screen in Cardullo’s front window last Tuesday for the first game of the postseason. The crowd included several “regulars”—two Cambridge policemen, an MIT English professor, the Au Bon Pain chess champ, and a smattering of residents and visitors enjoying Boston’s 4-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ben Affleck, David Leary, and Car Talk’s Click and Clack have also joined this convivial crowd in previous seasons. Although Cardullo?...
...World Champ called back after his interview to make a final point...