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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is something magical about watching people learn how to box. From the punching, the fancy footwork, the exercises and the rope-jumping, I learned discipline, intensity and grace. From watching other boxers, men and women, punch, do fancy footwork, exercise and jump rope better than I can, I learned humility. From watching the accomplished boxers don headgears, put on jock straps over their shorts and spar, I set goals. And from seeing Tommy do crazy exercises (he can rock back and forth on his stomach! His stomach!) and watching him run all over the MAC for three hours screaming...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Finding Myself in the Ring | 1/10/1992 | See Source »

...charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: Sport | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Instead, Harvard was dealt its own knockout punch...

Author: By R.j. Peters, | Title: It's Becoming Hard for Crimson Faithful to Keep the Faith | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

...around to reinventing Las Vegas, his most important project was reinventing himself. Far better known in the press and gossip of his glory days, the 1940s, as "Bugsy," he was perhaps the most famous mobster of his era. Not that he liked his colorful sobriquet (he tended to punch out people who used it in his presence) or his public identification as a hood (his preference was "sportsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Killer Goes to Hollywood | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

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