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Worldwide5 days agoGare 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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Worldwide2 months ago
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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News4 months ago
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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Worldwide5 months ago
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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Worldwide7 months ago
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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Worldwide9 months ago
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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Worldwide10 months agoManager 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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Worldwide12 months agoSalute 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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Worldwide1 year ago
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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Worldwide1 year agoThe 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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Worldwide1 year ago
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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Worldwide1 year ago
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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Worldwide2 years ago
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 York2 years ago
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...
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Worldwide2 years ago
New York’s Other Babe Herman
Babe Herman’s first round knockout loss to Vincent “Pepper” Martin on May 2nd, 1922, was not the end of the road for his career, but it...
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Canada2 years ago
Georgie Lee Fulfilled His Exotic Potential
Most people in Sacramento today know of Ancil Hoffman because of the local park and golf course named in his honor. Hoffman was a very successful...
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Worldwide2 years agoBill McMurray Was A Good Second Tier Heavyweight
Bill McMurray was an outstanding athlete at San Bernardino High School and then junior college, where he played football and ran hurdles on the track team...
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Worldwide2 years agoBorn Alfred Valine, Fought As Tommy O’Leary, Sacramento Fight Fixture Lived Colorfully
Tommy O’Leary was born Portuguese in 1901, with no hint of any Irish ancestry until he began fighting on the Sacramento fairgrounds and a handler thought...
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UK2 years agoMr. Smith Goes To Sacramento
I met Terry Smith about a hundred and twenty seconds before being punched unconscious in my second professional boxing match. This is not a story about...
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Australia2 years ago
THE GREATER LOVE OF RUDELL STITCH
Greater love hath no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) Rudell Stitch died on a Sunday –...
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