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June 30, 2007
Holmes & Cooney Remember Fight That Divided America
Gerry Cooney had just lost two points for hitting low, and both Larry Holmes and the desert heat had combined to sap his strength. Now, as the 10th round began, his manager leaned into the corner and urged him to fight even harder.
Amid the din of 25,000 people in the parking lot at Caesars Palace, Dennis Rappaport was playing the last card he had.
"America needs you," Rappaport told his fighter.
He wasn't far from the truth.
Back in Cooney's dressing room, a phone had been specially installed. The president of the United States was going to be calling to congratulate him if he won.
There was no phone in Holmes' dressing room.
"I was that close to getting that phone call," Cooney said, chuckling at the thought. "I might have become the vice president, who knows."
It was 25 years ago on a blisteringly hot night in Las Vegas, and Holmes was defending his heavyweight title against the big-punching Cooney in the richest fight of its time. The fight was an intriguing matchup of puncher versus boxer, but that wasn't why each fighter was making $10 million...More?
source: mmmanews.com
Patience Pays Off Big for Dallas iPhone Fan
DALLAS -- No doubt you've seen people all over the country who camped out for hours to get the hot new iPhone. So how did one local guy get the gadget AND eight crisp $100 bills to boot? More
source: www.myfoxdfw.com
Concussion Crisis
...Christopher Nowinski, a former professional wrestler who worked with Mr. Benoit, and who was forced to quit because of head injuries, said he believed that repeated, untreated concussions might have caused his friend to snap.
“He was one of the only guys who would take a chair shot to the back of the head,” Mr. Nowinski said, “which is stupid.”
Mr. Nowinski has written a book called “Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis” (Drummond Publishing Group, 2006), about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition that can cause memory loss, depression and “bizarre, paranoid behavior.”
Mr. Nowinski said that he had been trying to persuade the coroner examining Mr. Benoit to allow a brain exam to look for the telltale neurofibrillary tangles in the brain’s cortex, but that he had thus far been rebuffed.
“Part of me hopes there was something wrong with his brain,” Mr. Nowinski said...More?
source: www.nytimes.com
Check out Chris Nowinski's Site: Concussion Crisis
Hilarious - Radio Contest Gone Horribly Wrong
This is an absolutely hilarious true story regarding a radio show contest.
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June 29, 2007
June 28, 2007
Owner of Ladder in District Feud Sets Home Afire, Shoots Himself
A Northwest Washington man who has been in a tense neighborhood dispute over a ladder apparently set fire to his home and shot himself yesterday after authorities came to his residence, D.C. police said.
Nathaniel Rabinowitz was scheduled to appear today in D.C. Superior Court in a dispute over a ladder he chained to the back of his Logan Circle rowhouse. Neighbors and police have said that criminals used the two-story ladder to break into other homes on the block.
Nathaniel Rabinowitz, 60, refused to remove the ladder, which stands two stories tall and has been chained to the back of his house since 2001.
Rabinowitz, who put the ladder up in 2001, has said he has a right to keep it. He was hospitalized last night with a gunshot wound to the head....More?
Teen's Myspace Page Helps Scuttle a Plea Bargain
NASHUA – Photographs posted on a Hudson teen’s Myspace page have helped to scuttle a plea bargain that would have kept him out of jail for a fatal car crash last summer, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Justin Shepherd said he has withdrawn a plea offer in the case of Michael Munoz Ramirez, 17, of 4 Twin Meadow Drive, Apt. B, who faces two counts of vehicular assault.
Police said Munoz lost control of his Nissan while speeding on Old Derry Road in Hudson on July 29, 2006, and veered into oncoming traffic, running headlong into a Ford Explorer driven by Kellie Carlin, then 45, of Hudson. His friend Nathan Hergenhahn, 16, was killed in the crash, and Munoz, Carlin and her 13-year-old daughter all were injured.
Shepherd and Munoz’s lawyer, Michael Bowser, had planned to pitch the plea deal again Thursday to Judge William Groff, who had rejected it as too lenient previously.
After seeing photos of Munoz apparently taking part in an underage drinking party, however, and consulting with Hergenhahn’s mother, Patricia Cyr, Shepherd said he can no longer support the plea bargain.
source: nashuatelegraph.com
Kiss unleashing second volume of 'Kissology'
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Kiss will follow up its wildlysuccessful 2006 DVD box set, 'Kissology: Volume One,1974-1977,' on August 14 with a second volume chronicling1978-1991.
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Benoit Overload
All this Benoit news is draining. I am a wrestling fan and always will be. I don't think his actions taints the industry at all. There are drugs and "monsters" in all facets of life.
I agree with the WWE's decision to remove all tributes to Benoit. I removed his picture and the video of Hunter's tribute to him. It is erie that Hunter spoke of his respect for Chris, then we find out that he committed two murders.
I also don't understand the criticism of the tribute show that the WWE did on Monday. How were they to know that this man murdered his family?
I decided to post the video from Hunter's return in January of 2002 as a reminder of why we watch these guys and a reminder of what is to come.
FIGHT! Magazine Inaugural Issue to Feature UFC Welterweight Champion Matt
ATLANTA, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- FIGHT! magazine published by Bluff Media will debut its inaugural issue in late July featuring an in depth profile of The Ultimate Fighter 4 winner and current UFC welterweight champion, Matt Serra. "FIGHT! takes the coverage of Mixed Martial Arts to a new level. I am thrilled to be on the cover of the debut issue,"
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Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
