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...have unusually large extended families, but Pacquiao's posse has expanded of late, seemingly at the same rate as his fight purses, which hit $700,000 for the battle with Barrera. Members circle the fighter like planets around the sun, cooking his dinner, clearing away his plate, carrying his pool cue when he goes out for the marathon billiards matches that occupy many of his evenings. Manager Nazario remembers calling Pacquiao the morning after a party in his honor, not long after the fighter returned from the U.S. "He said, 'I thought I had 30 relatives,'" Nazario recalls, "'but there...
...training for months. At a March 25 press conference in L.A., Marquez left no doubt about his focus, declaring, "Only in death will I relinquish my belts." Meanwhile, Pacquiao admitted in February that he has barely laced a glove since his last bout, diverted by the allure of the pool hall and the many other distractions of sudden celebrity. He was booked to fight in a two-round exhibition in Manila in February but begged off, claiming he had left his sparring gear in GenSan. "Manny has to be warned repeatedly about the dangers of overconfidence," says Salud...
...hasn’t hurt that Sandvoss, who like his co-star Wes Ramsey is heterosexual, has become something of a sex symbol in the gay press. One critic likened him to a “Viking pool boy,” while another gushed that he was the “stud of the hour...
Odds are Sandvoss’s mind was on other things when he arrived at Harvard as a first-year intending to groom himself for international business and study Mandarin Chinese. But luckily for the world’s Viking pool boy fans, he burned out on business fast...
...finalists, who had been selected Wednesday from a pool of 16 Harvard undergraduate competitors, entertained the 30-member audience with performances that ranged from the works of Shakespeare and John Donne to the speech that British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave to the U.S. Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks. Other students selected works by contemporary poets Robert Lowell and Billy Collins...