I'm late posting my Tuesday column -- my apologies. I wrote about Bert Randolph Sugar who died of a heart attack on Sunday at age 74. He was the last great character of boxing, a sport which used to be full of characters. He was a storyteller and a boxing [...]
Angelo Dundee died on Wednesday. He was a great boxing trainer and he was a great boxing character when boxing still had great characters -- and still had character. I knew Angelo well and liked him. He used to send me Christmas cards and he would talk to me about [...]
I wrote my Wednesday column about Joe Frazier, Rest in Peace. I did not write about him as a boxer, although he was an all-time great heavyweight. I wrote about him as a man and I compared him to his counterpart, Muhammad Ali, an even greater heavyweight, but in my [...]
Joe Frazier died Monday of liver cancer. God, he was a great fighter. I had lunch with him once and found him funny, charming, smart, a pure delight. I will write a column about him this week -- I'm hoping Tuesday for Wednesday. I'm working the schedule out with the [...]
Before the Niners game starts I need to get in my 2 cents about Floyd Mayweather. The question is whether he did wrong by clocking Victor Ortiz when Ortiz did not think they were fighting. Mayweather did the right thing. Or more correctly he didn't do the wrong thing. Ortiz [...]
This comment from Grant just now as we stood at the stove making pasta sauce for tonight's dinner -- I'm thinking a Chianti go go with it. Grant: "You know what? The Lakers are Shane Mosley." I knew what.
OK, I paid the 55 bucks to watch Pacquiao/Mosley. I'm a sucker for boxing even though I knew it would not be much of a fight. It was even less than I expected. Pacquiao knocked down Mosley in the third round with a left hook, really loused up Mosley who [...]
Here's my prediction on Saturday's fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley. Pacquiao will murder him. I'm not saying Manny will knock him out. Mosley is bigger and may survive. But Pacquiao will dominate totally and the fight, I believe, will seem anticlimactic. Manny is too good and Mosley, who [...]
I went to the movies last night with Iggy to see "The Fighter." I love boxing movies especially good ones. This is a very good one. It's about Micky Ward, a former welterweight champ and it's about his troubled career. For me, the boxing must seem real in a boxing [...]
Bernard Hopkins used to be a great fighter but he's not a great thinker. He said Manny Pacquiao is ducking Floyd Mayweather Jr. in particular and blacks in general. He said a black fighter with a black style -- whatever that is -- could beat Pacquiao. Mike Tyson and Lennox [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.