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Bruce Seldon, pathetic as he often was, did beat the shit out of Joe Hipp on the undercard of Tyson-McNeely. That was brutal. I think Lewis is underrated now but will move up on all-time lists as the years go by. He was lucky to get Holyfield before he became a complete shell and history will smile on Lewis for being so desperately ducked by Riddick Bowe. The Tyson ko wont mean all that much, but the wins over Ruddock, Morrisson, Briggs, Golota, Botha, Tua, Grant, and Vitali are all going to help his standing. There might not have been a less lucky champ than Lennox Lewis. Bowe completely evaded him (even throwing a championship belt in the garbage can to avoid a fight) and so did Tyson until he was shopworn and needed a big check. His second, and best, run with the title got off to as bad a start as is imaginable with the disgraceful McCall fight (this is extra bad for Lennox because he didnt get to fully make up for the earlier loss to McCall as he would get to with Rachman) and then he defended it against the unrelentingly awful Akinwande. He had to slog through twelve rounds with Zelko Mavrovich as well before he got to Holyfield and a run of credible wins (minus one of the biggest upsets in boxing) that continued until his retirement.

Green Bay, after missing the boat on Nolan and Williams (probably during Ted's naptime, his eyes can't be half way outside his head 24/7), is now apparently looking into hiring Dom Capers for Defense.

Agent.

Those last two are neat.

Finished Quentin Bell's biography of Virginia Woolf a couple days ago. It's ok but, like everything else I've read about Woolf and her periphery, it doesn't seem to really capture her full life. It will probably take somebody with at least a touch of insanity to wrote a book about her that really comes close to getting the full person/story. Little something for Smitty: There's a nice little book out there called 'Lyndon Johnsons War,' or something like that. It's short but a fairly good look into the Vietnam War. It's written (true story) by a Dr. Michael Hunt.

He gave it all up because he didn't want that bastard Obama to come take all his money. And he didn't have time to get a plumbing license with his busy schedule of trying to ridicule war correspondents while he he reports from the Middle East theater.

Anyone else really looking forward to Pacquiao-Hatton?

Leornard the Fruitcake: Stopped Hearns in the championship rounds (12-15, then) and made Duran quit. Flashy smile, though. Duran - The aforementioned quitter.

Was the idea of making victims pay for their own rape-kits intended to help with this probalem?

Where I'm from, winter's not the best time for weight loss.

I am not aware of any law that says prior convicts can't earn money after serving their time (even if it is by highly ironic means).

The persistence of Joe the Plumber and the continued cable tv success of Sean Hannity shouldn't give their party much hope for 2010.

Jim Rice is a very proud man.

Exactly. How can a guy that jumps off a limo to attack a fellow competitor from a (crudely) organized sport not be a national hero in America?

Holmes had trained with and admired Ali, he didn't want to hurt him. And he would have if he had gone all out. Ali had no business fighting Holmes or even Trevor Berbick afterwards.

George Foreman and Ron Lyle fought one of the most exciting heavyweight fights ever in the 1970s. Their kind of cartoon, bombs-away, big heavyweight fighting wouldn't be seen again until Derrick Jefferson-Mo Harris on HBO in the late 90s. Holmes was knocked down by Shavers and got up and came back to win. Plenty of other heavyweights agreed with Holmes that Earnie Shavers was the hardest puncher they ever faced. That happened a few times with Holmes, getting off the canvas to win. I've never really understood how people have been bored by him. He wasn't as flashy as his champion bookends, Ali and Tyson, but he was really good. His jab was probably the best ever in the division, the guy was tough as shit, and he could knock people out. And, he wasnt some kind of dull professor kind of champ either. Holmes had a middle school education and could always be counted on to say or do something stupid ( and entertaining). We'll get to see some more in Al's next episode.

I think he would. But I don't disagree with Clinton as Secretary. They're both qualified, both earned the position by efforts during the campaign. It had to have been Obama's hardest selection.

Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing for Secretary of State is tomorrow morning, if you like that sort of thing. There's been plenty of scuttlebutt over how John Kerry will approach it. He really, really wanted that job.

Hell of a mascot, GOP. Makin' Bobby Taft proud.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html Hilarious stuff here. The map at the end is a great, unintentional, punchline to the whole piece.

Another fun day of watching football. Hopefully tomorrow doesn't fall off like last weekend.

Incandenza - This vote is a reward for staving off what was starting to look like another retarded "one to watch" campaign for EHME. Slayer - It hurts to do this (in an internet sort of way), but I just can't vote for the guy that beat one of my favorites to win the whole thing. Kinetic - I don't hold no grudges just because Kinetic Jack Lamberted (would Derrick Brooksed be better in this case?) my ass. He's the better poster in this matchup. Edwin - Mellow's run has come to an end, I think. KOAB - I used to like Tool 'til they made the same album that they made the last time they made the same album/Every time they make a damn album it's the same album, really/And only stoners listen to their music/It's silly. Agent - He likes lunch-pail football. That equals one vote. Sensei - This was a tough call. I think I've had more interaction with Sensei on the board than with Treble. VX - Hardest choice of the entire tournament. I guess I'll just give a vote for VX because we had to slog our way through that bloody stool of a Packers season.

Ezzard Charles is very underrated by history. He wasn't the best heavyweight champion ever but the rest of his career make him a legend. Also, my great-uncle claimed to say he worked/trained at the same Chicago gym as Charles back in the day.

Hopefully he's chinny like Tito.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal...0,3147190.story Another embattled politician appears to be on the way down. They were talking about Mayor Sheila Dixon's various hijinx all the time on the local news when I was in Baltimore during the summer, in between the stories of the shootings (13 in celebration of July 4). Too bad she couldn't have reached the great heights of Spiro Agnew before going down. Special Baltimore polictics prediction: Martin O' Malley, the governor of Maryland, will give the presidency a try in 2016. Note to better relate this story to the thread topic: Sheila Dixon, try as she might in the felonious act category, can not match Rod Blogo for giving a fucking circus of a press conference. Or a brisk, unbelievably limp-wristed, are we sure he's not a cartoon?, jog around the block whilst being impeached.