Word: roadworker
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...never out of the gym. All along, he has worked with his boys, two sons and two nephews. Brags the father: "I'm so much a boxer, I sire boxers." For 18 years, Joe, now 37, has never been able to sleep past the 4 a.m. hour of roadwork, whether or not he did the roadwork. "I keep boxing time in my head," he says, "and in my music." (He sings, badly...
...Liston's). To prepare for his ring debut in November, Jones goes to a Manhattan gym daily to spar four rounds and punch a 150-lb. bag for another six. He then shadowboxes, works out with his trainer and does calisthenics before finishing up with six miles of roadwork. Some 70 offers for fights have come in so far, and Jones figures on three dozen bouts before taking on a real heavyweight contender. "You gotta crawl before you walk," he says. And if "Too Tall" never gets to stand up, there is always sport...
Good Harbor Beach and Bass Rocks, Gloucester. Your average, populated North Shore beach. Go up route 128 to Gloucester and ask directions--the roadwork in this town is fairly complicated. Don't expect too much--despite the beautiful beach and rocky shores nearby, there is a lot of trash and teenage waste. Free, if you can park...
...Wednesday morning he brunched on scrambled eggs and beer. "He was the big daddy of the team and everybody had a lot of respect for him." recalls DiNicola. "He was a crazy type of guy. I remember him getting up at 2:30 in the morning and doing his roadwork. He did have erratic training habits but he was generally in shape when fights came around...
...Niro means "busy" as in "workaholic." Well before shooting The Deer Hunter, he was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro...