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Let's get one thing out of the way right now: Wladimir Klitschko has no plans to retire. Yes, Klitschko, 35, is now the unified heavyweight champion, having
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He's a full-blooded, thick-accented Brit. He watches soccer (sorry, futbol), drinks tea and pledges allegiance to the Queen. As a boxer, however, Haye is as
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Here was Mayweather, back in the spotlight, back in front of hundreds of adoring fans who had poured into Hudson Theatre in Times Square on Tuesday -- the first
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The stage was set. Then, it wasn't. Over 10 often hard to watch rounds inside a sparsely filled Pontiac Silverdome last January, Alexander got beat up. He took
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NEWARK, N.J. -- Four foreign-born lottery picks for the first time, the fourth straight year a John Calipari-coached point guard (Brandon Knight) lands in the
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"A boxing superstar." Those were the words Ryan Rhodes -- his face bruised, his body battered from 12 rounds of rib-busting combinations -- used in an
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The gap between potential and proven can be measured by Jeff Lacy. You remember Lacy, right? In 2005, Lacy was a white-hot super middleweight champion, a
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PROVO, Utah -- Jimmer Fredette had barely taken a dozen steps out the front door of Romano's Macaroni Grill when a voice screamed at him to stop. "Jimmer!"
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We have gone eight long, Eddie Chambers- and Hasim Rahman-filled years since the last meaningful heavyweight fight. That was 2003, when Lennox Lewis and Vitali
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It's never too soon to start thinking about next season (assuming there is one, of course), and the online gambling site Bodog has the early lines on the
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MIAMI -- The NBA has seen behind the curtain, removed the mask. For all of their nine-figure contracts, for all of their All-Star appearances, MVP trophies and
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When the announcement came that former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather would face alphabet welterweight champion Victor Ortiz on September 17th in Las
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- We in boxing bellyache all the time about fighters who duck dangerous opponents, refuse to take chances and turn prizefights into
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Even the improbable is frequently explainable, as is the case with Bernard Hopkins. We know why Hopkins, 46, has defied Father Time: a combination of clean
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MIAMI -- They have come so far, this Heat team. It cut through the adversity of a South Beach sized bullseye on their backs and solved the problem of having
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• How about that defense? Yeah, how about it? Miami's defense was swarming, double and triple teaming Dirk Nowitzki but still rotating fast enough to get out on
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I've been hearing more and more recently about a possible blockbuster fight: Bernard Hopkins vs. Sergio Martinez. Sounds crazy, right? In some ways, it is.
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DALLAS -- Before the celebration got started, before they joined the city in a party destined to go all night, there was one thing the Mavericks needed to do:
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