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...squadroom and spying the whiteboard. Red ink means open cases; black, solved. That is, red means lack of closure, as when NBC iced this humanistic cop drama unceremoniously last spring. Pembleton, Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and most of the series' diasporic crew investigate the shooting of Lieut. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a mayoral candidate. The case is mostly pro forma, but its powerful yet tender epilogue writes Homicide's epitaph in emotionally satisfying black...
...Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Louis and Joey Giardello...
After 18 years in the ring and 129 pro fights, Joey Giardello is too much of a pragmatist to rue what might have been. He has, after all, a wife, four children and a $35,000 home in Cherry Hill, N.J. How many fighters can claim that? But Joey was already an old man of 33 before he got a crack at the world middleweight championship. He was 35 when he lost it at Madison Square Garden last week to the same man he took it away from: Nigeria's Dick Tiger. That did not really matter either. What...
...twelfth rounds, Joey was rocked by solid punches to the head. Legs rubbery, hair matted with sweat, blood trickling down his lumpy face from cuts over both eyes, he stubbornly fought on, even though his cause was hopeless. After 15 rounds, the judges' verdict was unanimous for Tiger. Giardello had no excuses. "I wanted to show New York a good fight," he said, and announced that he was retiring. At that, Champion Tiger could only wonder rhetorically: "How can he live if he does not fight...
...Joey Giardello: a unanimous 15-round decision over Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 27, in a middleweight championship fight at Philadelphia's Convention Hall. Carter's looks (shaved head, drooping Fu Manchu moustache) and ring credentials (a one-round knockout of Welterweight King Emile Griffith) were impressive enough to make him the betting favorite at 11-10. But they hardly awed Champion Giardello, 34, who was fighting his 127th professional bout. Counterpunching craftily, scoring heavily with short, chopping hooks, Giardello won a lopsided victory, to the delight of 6,000 home-town fans...