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...heads the country's top football league and its football federation. And the largesse isn't flowing exclusively to the pro game: Abramovich contributes $55 million each year to Russia's fledgling youth development system. The London exile also paid the $2.65 million two-year contract to lure Dutch coach Guus Hiddink to Russia, hoping that he would work the same miracle with the national squad that he did during stints with South Korea and Australia...
...remote town in southeastern Nigeria is where current WBC world heavyweight champion Samuel Peter first honed his jab. But while Peter may have moved on to fame and fortune, his hometown gym still lacks a ring. Its aspiring fighters share head-guards, gloves, even gum-guards, and the coach who discovered Peter still plods along in obscurity, living in a tiny one-bedroom shack behind a palm-wine bar. Indeed, Coach Ade Young knows better than most just how little glamor is involved in boxing in Nigeria. A former national champion himself (1970 super lightweight), Young has spent decades traveling...
...such trip, 14 years ago, the trainer saw an adolescent Samuel Peter hitting a homemade punching bag at a local school. "I could see he had talent," Young says. "But he also was very hard-working. He said, 'Coach, I want to be a champion.' He would come to my house and talk about nothing but boxing." Peter soon became his most diligent, and eventually most successful, prot...
...hometown boy's boxing success has certainly stirred interest in the sport in his hometown. A recent evening finds at least two dozen aspirants eagerly gathered around Coach Young. He surveys the group, perhaps checking off their nicknames in his head: Spiritual, Empty Magazine, Horsepower, Supa, Uppa, Stockfish, My Baby. Then he blows a whistle and the training session is under...
...societal view of dads is that we're bumbling fools," Steve Dubin tells his all-male audience. It's Saturday morning in Weymouth, Mass., and 14 soon-to-be fathers are paying him to help keep them from fulfilling that stereotype. Dubin, a p.r. executive and Little League coach, pairs three rookies with three dads willing to hand over their babies for training purposes. Support the head, the instruction begins. Act naturally because babies can smell fear. Roll them over and rub their backs if they start to cry. "You'll probably hold the baby differently from your wife. That...