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...season is in April when Thai promoters hold a series of tournaments in makeshift rings set up in sheds or forest clearings. The contests feature up to 16 fights a day between boxers who have traveled from villages on either side of the border. Many are professional journeymen, living day-to-day and bout-to-bout from the tiny purses they earn. These matches seem a million miles from the gloved superstar kickboxing bouts held in stadiums in Bangkok. On the border, fighters simply cannot afford to lose. Many share their meager wages with managers and trainers. That financial pressure...
...world. Professional basketball has long surpassed baseball in popularity and has been nipping at the heels of the NFL, which has been looking for someone to fill the gaping holes left by larger-than-life stars like Elway and Marino. It's pretty difficult to get excited over journeymen like Elvis Grbac (once a third-string quarterback for the 49ers behind Montana and Young) and prima donnas like Ryan Leaf...
...world's greatest living authors to "celebrate Hemingway's life" and to "assess the nature of Hemingway's influence on world literature" through the discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death...
...YANKEES Thanks to strong journeymen like World Series MVP Scott Brosius and a whole lot of teamwork, the Yanks put together the best season ever--without a megastar. They won 114 regular-season games before racing through three levels of playoffs. They also landed a perfect game, a batting title and fans outside New York...
...long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental types don't get 150 movie and TV roles in a career. "I still have the actor's disease," he admitted in the '60s. "I always think I'll never get another job." Sometimes it's the journeymen you grow fondest of -- whether or not they're wearing the ape makeup...