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...Whatever its dimensions as a morality play, the Big Fight represents more than a championship boxing match. It is a chance to settle a rivalry Lewis has felt since childhood when he and Tyson trained together as teenagers...
...spent almost 50 years in public service was born of an Irish-American family in Oklahoma in 1927. His family moved to New York City while he was still a baby, and he spent much of his childhood in a poor neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan...
...spite of my nonathletic childhood, my “family” at school—my blocking group—ironically contains some of the most talented athletes on campus (no personal bias, of course). One blockmate is the captain of the wrestling team and an Olympic hopeful; another was a rowing standout. My two roommates are a star on the women’s lacrosse team and a varsity basketball player. Cumulatively I have spent many, many hours trying to scamper across that precarious crosswalk at the intersection of JFK Street and Memorial Drive in order to watch...
Amanda was three months my senior. For the six years of my childhood that I spent in Denver she lived around the corner, close enough to be a near constant companion but just far away enough that I could display a playground boastfulness about being allowed to walk to her house alone. Her bedroom window faced mine across the alley and on summer nights we used to whisper through walkie-talkies long after our parents had put us to bed. Amanda was with me the first time I had a sleepover, the first time I was allowed to walk...
...moved from Denver to Florida when I was 10 and, as with most of my childhood friends, Amanda and I gradually lost touch...