SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 20, 2021 – It seems much longer than one year since ‘Dancing With The Stars’ pulled off its pandemic year production with a polarizing new host in Tyra Banks and the cast of assorted reality TV stars, athletes, singers and of course a Bachelor/Bachelorette testing the limits of their challenges. Good/bad ...
One of America's great freedoms is to work and play hard. However, the Biden vaxxed mandates are destroying that from our jobs to Football.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021, the Jewish Day of Atonement. Fittingly, as NFL 2021 Week 2 action nears, some players need to atone. Big time.
LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2021 — A few weeks ago, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to announce that he is gay. The reaction to Mr. Nassib’s announcement was met with mostly positive responses. The NFL embraced him. The fans were happy for him. And on September 13th ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 10, 2021 – Oscar Valdez felt the support of 4,545 adopted hometown fans in Tucson, Arizona, and it helped take some of the weight off his shoulders coming into his first WBC World Super Featherweight title defense Friday. Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) delivered the win, but it wasn’t the flashy show ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 9, 2021 – Oscar Valdez, a Mexican native now living in Southern California (29-0, 23 KOs), delivered the first “Fight of the Year” for 2021 with a brilliant performance blending high-level craft and high-powered punching to stop a brave but outgunned Miguel Berchelt of Mexico (37-2, 33 KOs) with an exclamation ...
As the new NFL season begins, I have a deeply personal story to tell before we get on with our NFL 2021 Week 1 CDN Preview and Bettor's Guide.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 21, 2021 – The only calm person as the opening bell sounded at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Saturday was 42-year-old Manny Pacquiao. At the end of 12 hard rounds, Pacquiao accepted his defeat by late replacement Yordenis Ugas of Cuba with equal grace. Yordenis Ugas of Santiago de Cuba ...
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, August 19. 2021 – When eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines (62-7-2, 39 KOs) steps into the ring Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena to face Yordenis Ugas of Santiago de Cuba via Miami (26-4, 12 KOs) for the WBA World Super Welterweight title, win or lose his legacy is assured. ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 14, 2021 – On a busy Saturday night, we give you the recap you need to catch up – all in one place. You’re welcome. In the best bout of the night on DAZN, welterweight Vergil Ortiz Jr. of Grand Prairie, Texas (18-0, 18 KOs) needed one less round than Terence ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 13, 2021 – Boxing returns from its brief summer vacay with multiple compelling cards offering fans plenty of good entertainment choices. What’s your pleasure? Watching the emergence of a pound-for-pound star? Getting worked up about a bitter rivalry? Seeing a well-matched title fight with no clear favorite? Get the extra screen ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 3, 2021 – US Olympic Boxing team members will bring home a guaranteed four medals from the Tokyo 2020 Games, with three men and one woman making the quarterfinals at the end of Monday night’s competition. But if you were relying on NBC Sports’ coverage of Olympic boxing, you might not ...
Bored with the 2021 Tokyo Olympics? Let's re-run those vintage "Laff-A-Lympics" cartoons. Anyone but a network TV exec could figure this out.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 17, 2021 – A disappointing draw marred a terrific fight Saturday in San Antonio between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castaño. What else is new? Will Castaño get the rematch he deserves? For now, both men go home with their championship belts after judges in San Antonio scored the entertaining battle a ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 16, 2021 – Boxing’s rebound year from the pandemic serves up another division unification bout in Charlo vs Castaño on Saturday from San Antonio. It’s the best bout in the Showtime and Premier Boxing Champions summer lineup. The Showtime Boxing broadcast begins at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT. Boxing will slow ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 9, 2021 – Local favorites gave enthusiastic Southern California boxing fans the wins they wanted to see and made their case for bigger challenges and paydays in the future. In the main event, former WBO World Super Middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo:” Ramirez of Mexico (42–0. 28 KOs) reminded fans what made ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 8, 2021 –When boxing fans last heard from former WBO World Super Middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo:” Ramirez, the undefeated Mexican southpaw (41-0. 27 KOs) had stalled in the division and hit an impasse with his promoter Top Rank. It was a disappointing development in a once-promising career. Ramirez now looks toward ...
When America sends its Olympic Team to Japan, it will be a tale of two very different black female American Olympians - Berry and McLaughlin
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 26, 2021 – Gervonta “Tank” Davis of Baltimore (25-0, 24 KOs) made a successful debut in the super lightweight division, defeating Mario Barrios of San Antonio, Texas (26-1, 17 KOs) with an 11th round TKO win. Davis said he made it tough on himself going up two weight divisions. “I definitely ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 26, 2021 – The pound for pound great version of Vasiliy Lomachenko of Ukraine (14-2, 11 KOs) came back as if nothing had gotten in his way over the last year, demoralizing Masayoshi Nakatani of Japan (19-2, 13 KOs) as he has so many other opponents in his impressive career. Lomachenko ...