Manny Pacquiao will stop Antonio Margarito in 8 rounds on Saturday night. Margarito is a tough guy and that's good as far as it goes. Pacquiao is also a tough guy but he also has lightning fast hands and great timing. He will be too much for Margarito although Margarito [...]
Floyd Mayweather has been arrested for grand larceny. He allegedly stole stuff from his girlfriend's apartment where he allegedly came in uninvited and where he allegedly beat her up. I long have been a Mayweather advocate -- strictly as a boxer, not as a human being. I admire his boxing [...]
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. recently created a video in which he takes aim at Manny Pacquiao. This is very interesting. So far Mayweather hasn't shown the desire to take aim at Pacquiao in a ring -- merely in a video. Is that brave? This is a disgusting video and shows Mayweather [...]
I wrote my Thursday column about the Reds/Cardinals brawl and why it was different from other baseball fights and why, in a sense, it matters. To read the column click here.
On the advice of my friend and colleague Robert Rubino I ordered "Facing Ali" from Netflix. It is a knockout of a movie that focuses on interviews with fighters who fought Ali. They tell their stories and explain what it was like to fight Ali and what they think of [...]
Today, as you know, is the 100th anniversary of the world heavyweight title bout between Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries fought in Reno. It was a historic fight because Johnson, an African American, held the title and Jeffries, a former title holder, tried to win back the title for [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.