http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, in which an amateur named Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million and the poker boom was born.]]> May 17, 2013 07:31:18 PDT This wasn't supposed to be a blog post about Floyd Mayweather. The Lucas Matthysse–Lamont Peterson fight on Saturday night at Atlantic City's Bo...]]> May 20, 2013 08:15:44 PDT It was just a week ago that, along with everyone else with even a passing interest in the sport of basketball, I found myself asking, "Who is that idi...]]> May 13, 2013 18:34:04 PDT With apologies to Bernard Hopkins, Richard Alpert, and the girls of Lee High School, everybody gets old. The notion of an athlete growing old overnig...]]> May 03, 2013 12:00:36 PDT May Day (proper noun): The name recently given to an unofficial boxing holiday, so called because Floyd Mayweather is about to headline a boxing pay-p...]]> April 24, 2013 13:30:54 PDT Anyone with even a passing interest in boxing can recognize the need for an alternative to the alphabet sanctioning bodies, which over the past half-c...]]> April 02, 2013 08:51:07 PDT Let's play the bonus round on Pyramid: I'm in the best shape of my life ... This has been the best training camp of my career ... I'm not looking...]]> March 29, 2013 12:00:33 PDT The superstar-in-the-making, in his very early 20s, is relatively unproven in the ring but is already among the most popular and entertaining fighters...]]> March 27, 2013 10:10:11 PDT Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Floyd Mayweather's ascent to his position as king of the boxing box office is that he's done it without being ...]]> February 20, 2013 10:45:37 PST According to the New York Daily News, sources say boxer Victor Ortiz will be among the contestants on the next season of Dancing With The Stars. Doe...]]> February 12, 2013 12:25:21 PST Numbers never lie, right? Well, in boxing, at the very least, they fib. Numbers can misrepresent and misdirect. And that's dangerous because, in boxin...]]> January 18, 2013 10:27:45 PST There are two kinds of year-end awards: the ones that matter, and the ones you're about to read. First, an acknowledgement: Boxing is a deadly seri...]]> December 26, 2012 10:05:29 PST 2012 will not go down as the year in which boxing developed a PEDs problem. But it will go down as the year in which boxing was forced to admit it has...]]> December 24, 2012 06:36:15 PST In ESPN The Magazine, Eric Raskin writes about Saul Alvarez is taking the boxing world by storm.]]> December 20, 2012 10:27:52 PST It's been a rough couple of years for athletes nicknamed Macho. In May 2011, pro wrestling legend Randy Macho Man Savage suffered a heart attack w...]]> November 30, 2012 09:15:43 PST