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...time I realized what was happening to me." Unable to grasp their situation, adolescents frequently wait too long even to consider having an abortion. The gravity of such a decision often eludes them. "I was going to have an abortion, but I spent the money on clothes," confesses Sonya Lyde, 18, of Chicago, now the mother of a seven-month...
...least boxing is consistent. The men's version is fraught with sleaze, and--hey! so is the women's. LAILA ALI, 23, scored a majority decision over JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE, 39, last Friday night in Verona, N.Y., in what was billed as the next chapter in the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier feud but was actually a fight between two women who are very bad at boxing. True, both fighters came in undefeated: Ali had crushed 48-year-old grandmother Marjorie Jones; Frazier-Lyde had whupped a 19-year-old who turned tail when she saw Frazier charging. The fighters exchanged...
...entry of Ali (a.k.a. Madame Butterfly) and Frazier-Lyde (Sister Smoke) into the pros--followed by declarations from progeny of other famed pugilists, including the daughters of Roberto Duran and George Foreman--has brought a wave of visibility, and renewed heat, to women's boxing. This week in Kenner, La., J'Marie Moore, 39, the daughter of former light-heavyweight champ Archie Moore, will box on the first all-women's card to be shown live over the Internet. Next up will be Freeda Foreman, George's 23-year-old daughter. While a virus forced Foreman to postpone...
...sport's best fighters, and now sets bouts for an NFL cheerleader, a topless dancer and boxing's infamous Playboy cover girl Mia St. John. Known more for her pink hot pants than her ring skills, St. John takes home about the same per fight as Ali and Frazier-Lyde...
...might mar the sport's credibility if it were anything less than a serious meeting of equals. The much younger Ali calls the daughters-of-legends trend "annoying," especially in light of the 17-year age gap. "It would be easy for me to say yes, beat [Frazier-Lyde] and pocket the cash," Ali says. "But fighting is serious for me." Nonetheless, it's too early to count out such a bout. As Frazier-Lyde might say: Where there's Smoke, there's fire...