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A look back on the Beijing Games
Dan RafaelNow that the Beijing Olympics are over, my two DVRs and two DVD recorders are finally resting after two weeks of massive...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2008
Boxing isn't taking a backseat this summer
Dan RafaelYour weekly random thoughts • As has been the case for the past few Olympics, boxing in Beijing won't be featured on NBC other than televising some of the gold medal...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 07, 2008
Time for Joe Cortez to find another nickname
Dan RafaelYour weekly random thoughts • Regarding referee Joe Cortez's miserable handling of last Saturday's Humberto Soto-Francisco Lorenzo ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 03, 2008
Do the right thing
Dan Rafael...super middleweight titlist Jeff Lacy continue to talk about a fall fight between the 2000 U.S. Olympic teammates. HBO owes Taylor one more fight on his contract and I hope the network can work...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 05, 2008
Knowing when to say when
Dan Rafael...title, which isn't so bad for a guy who won a silver medal in the 1992 Olympics -- as a middleweight. So it was sad to see Byrd, shedding 40 pounds and moving down to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 22, 2008
Which pay-per-view to view?
Dan Rafael...Boxing After Dark" card featuring a trio of exciting prospects in step-up fights: ultra-exciting 2004 Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa against Darling Jimenez in a junior lightweight fight; all-action brawling junior middleweight...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 16, 2008
Future shines bright for Golden Boy
Dan Rafael...most of their fights. Both of them were star amateurs who fell just shy of the 2008 Olympic team. Both fight Saturday night on the De La Hoya-Forbes undercard. I have been impressed by...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 02, 2008
If Mayweather won't fight him
Dan RafaelYour weekly random thoughts • How goofy is this: Here we have Floyd Mayweather Jr. , the No. 1 boxer in the sport in his prime, ref...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 30, 2008
'Money' giving back
Dan Rafael...a part of as an amateur. It was instrumental in his development into a 1996 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist and great professional fighter. Mayweather remembers where he came from and is in a position...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 15, 2008
It's all about the networks
Dan RafaelBoxing back on network television. It is the Holy Grail for many in the fight game. Promoters long for the days of regular coverage, when it was th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 20, 2008
Cancun's cast of characters
Dan Rafael...card could wind up as a tripleheader featuring James Kirkland, Alfredo Angulo and possibly red-hot 2004 Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis Gamboa in separate bouts. Gamboa has also been mentioned as a possibility to open...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 08, 2008
Ward about to speed things up
Dan RafaelWhen you're a U.S. Olympic boxing gold medalist, you're supposed to become a top professional fighter. You're supposed to win...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 04, 2008
The Big Show, but not Cotto?
Dan RafaelYour weekly random thoughts • I haven't watched much pro wrestling since the mid-1980s -- yes, I actually attended Wrestlemania I a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 20, 2008
No shame in Showtime
Dan Rafael...coverage of the Jan. 26 heavyweight eliminator in Germany between rising contenders Alexander Povetkin, the Russian 2004 Olympic gold medalist, and "Fast" Eddie Chambers, the slick Philadelphia native. The winner will become a mandatory challenger...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 29, 2007
Still talking about that bad decision
Dan RafaelYour weekly random thoughts • Maybe I'm beating a dead horse here, but the decision in Saturday night's Joel Casamayor-Jose Armando...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2007
TOP SEARCHES IN OCTOBER
NFL Expert Picks tops ESPN.com searches in October. Did "olympics" make the list?
