Word: cornerman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casarez are in their corners having their faces smeared with Vaseline to reduce the chance of cuts. Their hands are wrapped in gauze and placed inside huge (16 oz.) boxing gloves. Shawn tries to spit out the rubber mouthpiece. "I don't want it," he tells his cornerman-father, who shoves it back in. As the two boxers get their instructions from the referee, Dan interrupts with his own bit of advice. "No kicking," he blurts out to his opponent...
...have been monopolizing the winter sports pages since they were about sixteen. Captain Bill Russell Collins, at 6 ft 10 in., is the backbone of the Eagle defense. He's joined by high school cohorts Will Morrison and Bobby "Smooth" Carrington, a Keith-Wilkes-type-22-points-a-game cornerman...
...back on the scene in force, is living his usual abnormal life. At his training camp in Miami Beach, he heads an entourage that looks like a touring vaudeville act. There is Bundini, the cornerman and personal mystic who calls him "the Blessing of the Planet"; a handler whose sole job is to comb Ali's hair; assorted grim-faced Muslim operatives; imperturbable Angelo Dundee, his trainer since 1960; Norman Mailer; Actor Burt Lancaster; Cash Clay Sr. in red velvet bellbottoms, red satin shirt and a plantation straw hat; the Major, a high roller from Philly who tools around...