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WorldwideDeep Down, Boxing Lifer Don Conley Was a Softy
Arrested for burglary at age 10 when police found him hiding under the bar at the Southside Club on Stockton Boulevard, Don Conley never knew his...
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WorldwideNature and Time
I was hospitalized with congestive heart failure this past fall and suffered a stroke two days after Christmas. Life can change quickly. Thinking of myself as...
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WorldwideMonroe Brooks Remembered For Heart, Not Anemic At All
Boxing in Sacramento was on life-support in the early 1970s, with no main event fighter enough of an attraction for promoter Babe Griffin to confidently finance...
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WorldwideThe Pugilist Who Does Not Rest
The United States is home to many successful immigration stories. The life of Angelo Tsakopoulos, arriving in America as a penniless, 15-year-old kid to shine shoes...
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Fathers and Sons
Tommy O’Leary’s Gym was no longer called O’Leary’s when it caught fire in the late summer of 1970. O’Leary’s nephew, Ray Valine, kept the gym open...
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Passing Of The Torch
Introduced to the world by his parents as Milan Oreb, Johnny Bananas – with the realization he had a limited future in professional boxing – opened...
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Gare Joyce Tried, Succeeded
The title of Gare Joyce’s “How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying)” is, of course, a play upon the well-known movie and play, “How to...
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The Many Faces of Henry Clark
Of all the people I’ve known who had “champagne tastes on a beer budget,” 1960s heavyweight contender Henry Clark was the least forgettable. Born in Baton...
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News
The Doctor’s Last Call
Already well-known in his Fair Oaks neighborhood when the Sacramento Bee newspaper celebrated 90-year old Dr. William Black as being the oldest practicing physician in the...
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The Worlds of Will Edgington
Long-time Sacramento boxing figure Will Edgington served as a matchmaker for promoter Don Chargin, owned and operated gyms, promoted fights himself, worked the corner as a...
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The Making of Joey Lopes
When California governor Goodwin Knight’s investigation of corruption in professional boxing and wrestling moved from Los Angeles to Sacramento, lead investigator James Cox focused his attention...
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The Second Coming Of Eddie Booker
The second coming of Eddie Booker was a short visit. Not a household name, the odds are highly unlikely that anyone who saw Booker fight is...
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WorldwideManager Harry Kabakoff, Mostly Loveable, Often Blundered
Baseball was the first love for Melville Himmelfarb, who grew up up the only Jewish kid in what was then known as the “Dago Hill” section...
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WorldwideSalute To Mario Duccini, Boxer Who Ran Filling Station/Beer Bar
Mario Duccini and his older brother Larry regularly watched professional boxing at Sacramento’s L Street Arena and dreamed of fighting there themselves when they grew up...
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My Mother, My Dog And The Hope Of Hospice
In my father’s last couple of years, as Alzheimer’s took him away from us, my mother was babysitting him 24 hours a day, unable to find...
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WorldwideThe Sun Rises Everywhere
A third of Hawaii’s population in 1941 was of Japanese ancestry, so it should be no surprise that many of the 68 civilians deaths resulting from...
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Former Referee & Judge Hank Elespuru: The Ring Not Taken
Hank Elespuru was born in Blackfoot, Idaho, in 1923 but grew up in Great Falls, Montana. A 1937 issue of the Great Falls Tribune reports on...
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Gorgeous Gael And The Two Baers
Max Baer had been heavyweight champion for only a few months when he and actress Judith Allen attended Baer’s younger brother Buddy’s November, 1934, fight in...
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Love In the Time of Bobo Olson
The late sportscaster Les Keiter thought of Bobo Olson as “the warmest human being I’ve ever known.” He wanted to be clear, though, that Bobo “was...
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New York
Jerry Fiorello Won Plenty, Lost More
New York columnist Mel Heimer met Brooklyn middleweight Jerry Fiorello about a week before Fiorello died, near the end of September, 1947. Fiorello was 29 years...
Tim Tszyu Rejects Comfort Zone In Pursuit of Boxing Legacy
Artur Beterbiev Becomes Undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion
Riyadh Season Undercard: Wardley Stops Clarke In One Round
Experts: Beterbiev vs Bivol Predictions
Weigh-In Photos: Beterbiev vs Bivol
Friday Night Fights: Jaime Munguia Returns Against Erik Banzinyan, ESPN
Daniel Dubois Delivers Shocking Beatdown Of Anthony Joshua
Friday Recap: Jaime Munguia Body Blasts Take Down Erik Bazinyan In Ten
Riyadh Season Undercard: Hamzah Sheeraz Steals The Show
