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...December 1984, Greg Page, 50, claimed the World Boxing Association's heavyweight title by knocking out the reigning champ. Though he lost the title the following year, Page continued to fight until a 2001 bout left him with permanent brain damage...
RETIRED Boxing's "Golden Boy" and 10-time world champ, Oscar De La Hoya, 36, announced his retirement on April...
...pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before he was 21. (His mentor died just before the big fight.) Those victories helped him realize that "I don't have to worry about anyone bullying me again...
...what are you going to do when you realize that you can’t possibly sneak your parliamentary debate champ from Argyle, Texas into the Delphic but that really hot guy you met last week is going to be inside? Leave her by J. Press to fend for herself? Cold...
...what exactly are these soccer execs thinking, kicking off a new women's league during a near-depression? To be fair, WPS announced this current launch date back in August of 2007, when the economy was relatively rosy. "That's life," says Kristine Lilly, a two-time Olympic champ who plays striker for the Boston Breakers (the WPS will also have teams in the Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. A Philadelphia franchise will start next season). "When we made plans to start this league, we didn't think the economy was going...