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2006 Lancet Study estimates 655,000 civilians killed during U.S./Coalition Occupation of Iraq

Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

Current Confirmed U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan

The Guardian's breakdown of civilian casualties in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010

 

"I may not agree with you but I will fight to the death for my right to fight you to the death." -Stephen Colbert

 

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10/14/11 OWS Protestors win skirmish with Mayor Bloomberg and avoid eviction; 10 arrested in clashes with police

 

10/12/11 This week's freebie episode of Talkin' Boxing w/Billy C, the BFTP is Cocoa Kid

Juan Manuel Marquez will pay for disrespecting Pacquiao says Roach

 

Robert Reich: Occupy Wall Street isn't the Left's Tea Party

Chris Hedges: Why the elites are in trouble

The Rich Don't Create Jobs and 5 other myths that must die for the economy to live

 

10/5/11 This week's freebie episode of Talkin' Boxing w/Billy C, the Blast-From-The-Past is Wilfred Benitez

Freddie Roach on the suckerpunch & Mayweather versus Ortiz

President Obama A Disaster on Civil Liberties: Jonathan Turley

Bloomberg is reporting Koch Brothers' secret dealings with Iran

 

9/28/11 The Billy C Boxing Hall of Fame Event is coming!! Get your tickets NOW!

This week's freebie episode of Talkin' Boxing with Billy C, the Blast-From-The-Past is Jack Sharkey

Business as usual in terms of climate means the US South will become uninhabitable says NASA's James Hansen

 

9/21/11 This week's freebie episode of Talkin' Boxing with Billy C, No Blast this week just full coverage of Mayweather-Ortiz

Rick Perry's pledge to stand with Israel as a Christian is a gift to Islamic Extremists

 

 

9/16/11  Alex Pierpaoli visits the Average Joe Show to talk STAR POWER

 

9/14/11

 

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8/3/11  This week's freebie episode of Talkin' Boxing with Billy C, the Blast-From-The-Past features Izzy Schwartz

 

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6/29/11

 

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6/20/11  KOFantasyBoxing talks to Author Lee Groves

 

6/17/11  FTF Radio Episode 2: Omar Henry Interview

 

6/15/11 Blast-From-The-Past featuring Fred Apostoli

 

6/13/11  Pix from Canastota

 

6/8/11  Blast-From-The-Past Featuring 2011 IBHOF Inductees: Tyson, Tszyu, Chavez

 

5/25/11 This week's Blast-From-The-Past features Rocky Graziano

 

5/24/11  FTF Radio Episode One: Our First Podcast is here!

 

5/18/11 This week's Blast-From-The-Past features Lou Ambers

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5/12/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

5/11/11 This week's Blast-From-The-Past features Lionel Rose

 

5/5/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

4/28/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

4/27/11 This week's Blast-From-The-Past features Beau Jack

 

4/21/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

4/20/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Barbados Joe Walcott

 

4/17/11  Vicious Victor Ortiz out-guts Andre Berto in a thriller at Foxwoods

 

4/15/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

4/14/11  KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners for March

 

4/13/11  Talkin' Boxing With Billy C Free Preview!

 

4/7/11  Talkin' Boxing with Billy C weekly freebie episode

 

4/6/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

3/30/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

3/29/11  Talkin' Boxing with Billy C Free Preview!

 

3/25/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

3/23/11  Talkin' Boxing with Billy C Free Preview!

 

3/22/11  Andre Ward versus Arthur Abraham is set!

 

3/18/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

3/16/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Ted Kid Lewis

 

3/12/11  Martinez vs. Dzinziruk fight card results

 

3/11/11 KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

3/9/11 This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Lou Brouillard

 

3/4/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners for February

 

3/3/11  Sergio Martinez Conference Call Quotes

 

3/2/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Ralph "Tiger" Jones

 

2/23/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Khaosai Galaxy

 

2/16/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Fighting Harada

 

2/15/11  NEW Kayo Quick Bucks League is Open NOW!

Villesanor: Barrera looks like old self in blowout of Arias

 

2/11/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

2/9/11  This Week's Blast-From-The Past features Benny Leonard

KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners for January

It ain't just Mubarak; Seven Dictators the US is Backing to the Hilt

Dave Zirin: A History Lesson for the Redskins Owner

Family of Murder Victims Call for Death Penalty Repeal

 

2/3/11 KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

2/2/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Rhode Island's Favorite Son Vinny Paz

Injury, Head butt doom Devon Alexander

Devon demands a REMATCH

Luis Franco & Lateef Kayode star in this week's SHOBOX

Bill McKibben describes how catastrophic weather events are the new normal for a warmer, wetter world

Humans left Africa earlier during Ice Age heat wave

Chris Hedges: What Corruption and Power Have Wrought in Egypt

Yes, there is a Black Hole at the core of our galaxy and it's a doozie!!

 

1/28/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Cotto-Mayorga Presser Gets Heated!

1/27/11  The Ring Magazine Launches Digital Edition

1/26/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Tony Zale

Saul Alavarez to face Matthew Hatton on March 5 in Anaheim

1/20/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

1/19/11  This Week's Blast-From-The-Past features Glenwood Brown

 

1/14/11  Marty Mulcahey's TV Cheat Sheet

Kevin Cunningham on the Pacquiao vs. Black Fighters Debate

Happy Birthday B-Hop

Aflockalypse Now! Why We Should Be Concerned About Recent Mass Die-Offs

Amidst massive snowstorm in US & floods in Australia, twenty-ten declared hottest & wettest year ever, worldwide

Taking the History out of Huck Finn

Jupiter may hold clues to mystery of Dark Energy

Capt. Paul Watson: Greenpeace Mon Amour

 

1/13/11  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Naomi Klein goes looking for BP's Oil

Two Gay Heroes Thwart Assassinations--35 years apart

NOAA says Twenty-Ten Hottest & Wettest on Record

Joan Walsh: Sarah Palin will never be president

 

1/12/11  Blast-From-The-Past features bare-knuckler Jimmy Elliott

 

1/10/11

William Astore: Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire

Helen Thomas is back...

 

1/5/11  Blast-From-The-Past featuring Slugger White

Matt Taibbi on the new Speaker of the House Crybaby John Boehner

Andrew Bacevich: The Tyranny of Defense Inc.

 

1/4/11 KOFantasyBoxing This Week

KOFantasyBoxing Winners for December

Solo Boxeo features Gonzalez vs. Gonzalez

Heavyweight Kevin Kohnson calls out EVERYONE

 Did larger babies bring man's ancestors down out of the trees?

 

12/31/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

A Recap of what we learned from Wikileaks in 2010

Sharks Catch a Major Break in Twenty-Ten

A look back at one of the most under-reported and possibly most important stories of twenty-ten

Michael Teitelman: Obama & the Boy in the Iron Box

Twenty-Eleven is going to be the year we hit 7 Billion

 

12/29/10  Blast-From-The-Past featuring Battling Siki

 

12/23/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

12/22/10  Blast-From-The-Past featuring Tiger Flowers REDUX on Talkin' Boxing with Billy C

 

12/17/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

12/15/10  Blast-From-The-Past featuring Tiger Flowers on Talkin' Boxing with Billy C

 

12/10/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

12/8/10  Blast-From-The-Past featuring John L Sullivan on Talkin' Boxing with Billy C 

 

12/3/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Ralph Nader describes where the Left & Right Converge

11/26/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

11/24/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

 

11/19/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

11/17/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Johnny Owen

 

11/10/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Johnny Dundee

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11/9/10 KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners for October

 

11/3/10 This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Carlos Monzon

 

10/27/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Battling Batalino

 

10/26/10 Webhead Entertainment's first foray into the world of movie co-production premiere's in Wallingford CT this week!

 

10/20/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Ricardo "Finito" Lopez

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10/15/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

10/13/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Tony Canzoneri

 

10/8/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

10/6/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Terrible Terry Norris

 

9/29/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Newsboy Brown

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9/22/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Mickey Walker

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9/15/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Young Stribling

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9/8/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Lightweight HOFer Sammy Angott

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NYTimes Op-Ed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

 

9/2/10  KOFantasyBoxing's Monthly Winners for August

 

9/1/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Puerto Rican Bantamweight Great Sixto Escobar

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8/25/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Middleweight Hall-of-Famer Marcel Thil

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8/20/10  This Week's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST features Flyweight Hall-of-Famer Frankie Genaro

KOFantasyBoxing This Week

 

8/13/10  CNN's Anderson Cooper exposes Rep. Louie Gohmert for the grandstanding, race-baiting bigot that he is for propagating phony story of "terror babies" being born in the US video below...

 

8/12/10  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

8/11/10  Today's BLAST-FROM-THE-PAST featuring the Galveston Giant, the great Jack Johnson on Talkin' Boxing with Billy C

Judge Andrew Napolitano disappoints stuffed-shirt mimbo Bill Hemmer on bigoted, fake-issue of amending 14th amendment to the US Constitution video below...

 

8/9/10  Attorney Ted Olson talks with Fox News' Chris Wallace and obliterates arguments against same-sex marriage...

Dan Rafael's detailed scorecard from St. Louis

Freddie Roach says watch Rafa versus Juanma on September 18 instead of the Mosley-Mora Pay Per View

George Kimball breaks down the destruction of Cory Spinks

David Avila's recap of Friday Night Fights on the Deuce

Wayne McCullough looks at Alexander the Sedate on SkySports

After chowing on Spinks, K9 Bundrage is ready for boxing's big names

Chris Hedges: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears

Glacier breaks on Global Warming Anniversary

Wolves regain protected status

Pvt Manning's early life highlighted in NYTimes piece

An Open Letter to President Obama on major Deployment of Warships

Air-Conditioning makes us into heat-sensitive wimps but can we do without it?

BP fires 10,000 clean-up workers

Repubs Boehner and Pence can't explain how tax-cuts for the wealthy would be paid for

 

 

8/8/10  Devon Alexander doesn't live up to the hype versus Andriy Kotelnik --Doug Fischer

George Kimball from Ringside at Alexander-Kotelnik

Dan Rafael on Cloud-Johnson and Bundrage-Spinks

The Ups & Downs of Fight Films

If a Mosque near Ground Zero bothers you, get over it, there's already one at the Pentagon

Osama Bin Laden hates the Cordoba Initiative even more than the Islamophobes

Glenn Greenwald on what a collapsing empire looks like

 

8/6/10  KOFantasyBoxing Winners for July

Talkin Boxing with Billy C Free Preview 8/4

KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Talkin Boxing with Billy C Free Preview 7/28

One year ago Glenn Beck wondered aloud whether or not Pres. Barack Obama is a racist, and oh, what a year of race-baiting Glenn has had since, watch a video montage below...

 

Talkin Boxing with Billy C Free Preview 7/21

Pacquiao attacks De-Forestation/Global-Warming in his first bill as a congressman

Boxing4Free Interview with TalkinBoxing with Billy C's Bill Calogero

Reza Aslan reveals the religiosity of the New Atheists

Happy Birthday Hot-Stuff!! Global Warming Turns 35!!

Glenn Greenwald on the BP/Government Police State

Global Warming is UNDENIABLE; last decade hottest on record

Another Reason NOT To Join The US Chamber of Commerce

 

CIA Head Leon Panetta describes US vs. Al Qaeda Odds in Afghanistan at 1000 to 1

 

CNBC’s Rick Santelli is still wrong and he’s still a baby

 

“Jones Act” Right Wing Talking Point Crumbles on CNBC

 

Anti-Banker Class Warfare Breaks Out at Sen. Orrin Hatch Town Hall

   

Is Glenn Beck pretending to be less Mormon so as not to offend non-Mormon Christians?

 

David Sirota has the guts to ask the question no one wants to hear

 

A Look Ahead At Life After BP’s Temple of Doom

 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Stage Mass Protest Over Potential Integration

 

Global Heat Wave Hits US, Reignites Climate Debate

 

6/18/10

From Canastota, NY, the IBHOF Induction Weekend photos

 

5/25/10 

Peter Manfredo defeats Angel Hernandez at Mohegan Sun fight pix by Brendon Pierpaoli

David Sirota on the Myth of the Left

Elena Kagan shielded Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits

America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists

 

4/12/10

Rodriguez vs. Arnaoutis fight pix by Brendon Pierpaoli

 

3/10/10 

Devon Alexander stops Juan Urango

James "Smitty" Smith breaks down Pacquiao-Clottey

Vic Darchinyan defeats Rodrigo Guerrero

Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley L.A. press conference quotes

Pretty Boy Floyd and Sugar Shane talk it up at NYC presser

Peter Manfredo Jr. decisions Matt Vanda, photos by Rich Esposito

Human driven extinctions occurring at a more rapid rate than evolution

Dave Lindorff: Kill Bill, Death to ObamaCare

Sheppard Smith champions the Public Option on Fox News…no shit

John Perkins talks about why the world financial markets collapsed

 

11/20/09    10 Reasons Pacquiao and Mayweather should fight

 

8/19/09  Steve Kim: Juan Diaz battles boredom

Bernard Fernandez: Tyson documentary omits facets of a troubled life

Guess What? Obama's a terrible President!

Religiosity loves company: Dominionist Christian, Mike Huckabee rejects 2-state solution in Israel

8/18/09  Donaire defeats Concepcion; Luevano scores DQ

Roy Jones pummels Jeff Lacy in Hook City

Obama's America doing nothing about Israel-Palestine

Obama's need for bipartisanship is killing yourself with kindness

Ted Rall: What is they gave a war and no one knew why?

8/14/09  Q & A with Nonito Donaire

Jeff Lacy vows it’ll be short night versus Roy Jones

Pedro Fernandez breaks down & previews the weekend bouts

Vivian Harris insists he isn’t finished

Can Klitschko-Arreola revive boxing’s unlimited class

Steve Kim: Luevano ready for Concepcion

Martin Mulcahey on Tom Molineaux, the first African-American Heavyweight Challenger of all-time

New media means far greater access to favorite fighters

Roy Jones now fighting like a senior

Bradley-Campbell controversial finish

David Haye to battle Wlad, Vitali, Valuev?!

Hlatshwayo defeats Rodriguez in Rematch at Mohegan Sun

Golden Boy signs Vicious Vivian Harris

Bernard Fernandez on the rise & eventual fall of Iron Mike

George Kimball de-mystifies the BWAA Awards

George Kimball’s Canastota Chronicles

David Avila talks with James Toney about the Klitschko “Sisters”

Ron Borges:  RIP Alexis Arguello

Chris Hedges: Nader was right; Liberals going nowhere with Obama

Bring on the Class War: Study says Income Inequality at an all-time high

Have it THEIR way: Surgeon General pick was on Burger King payroll

DemocracyNow! talks to Jeff Sharlet about secretive fundamentalist Christian group; The Family

MOJO introduces The Birthers

Jeremy Scahill talks about Blackwater murder links and more

Former FDA Commish David Kessler talks to DemocracyNow! about controlling the insatiable American Appetite

Glenn Greenwald on GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's use of Lobbyist Richard Wolffe

Glenn Greenwald looks at how The Establishment Media celebrates Cronkite hile ignoring what he did

 

7/21/09  The Republic wins while Militarism and the F-22 lose one small battle

 

7/13/09  Taylor-Abraham, Froch-Dirrell, Super Six World Classic Presser Quotes

As US Troops withdraw, Patrick Cockburn describes the kleptomaniac state of Iraq

Jim Hightower reminds us of what's worth celebrating every Fourth of July: Agitators

Uri Avnery on Netanyahu's Oratory Legerdemain

 

6/18/09  KOFantasyBoxing This Week

AAPRP condemns Klitschko-Chagaev, and hopes to cancel it

KOFantasyBoxing Funny of the Week

Down with Oil, Hemp can save the earth, baby

Greg Palast: Oil & Indians Don't Mix

Militarism loves bipartisanship, 6 Dems join Repubs to keep F22 program alive

Mob Rules in the Palin-Letterman War on Jokes

 

6/15/09 IBHOF Induction Weekend 2009 Pix from Canastota pg 2

6/14/09  Mayweather-Marquez bout Postponed; PBFM injures rib

Chad Dawson vs. Glen Johnson Rematch Set for Fall

6/11/09  IBHOF Induction Weekend Begins

5/23/09  Dan Rafael reports: Mayweather-Marquez 24/7 A Go for June 27

Pedro Fernandez marks the departure for Europe of one Don Only in America King

Ward bests Miranda in step-up bout; Molina marches on

Siki and McTigue: Forever Linked in History by George Kimball

Joe Winters and Lou DiBella teamed up for a June 5 fight card

Andre Berto faces Juan Urango and Kermit Cintron battles Alfredo Angulo in an HBO BAD DBL HDR

Dan Rafael watches the PacMan bout with the PacMan

Pacquiao Crushes Hatton in 2

Dave Zirin says there's a little bit of something for everyone in Mine That Bird's Derby Victory

Dick Cheney breaks it down, Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism

Mancow gets Manhandled: Radio Talk Show Host gets waterboarded voluntarily, now feels it's torture

Becoming what we seek to destroy by Chris Hedges

Ellen Goodman is In Praise of Empathy

Noam Chomsky on the release of the Torture Memos

 

4/29/09  Tim Bradley relinquishes WBC Belt in letter to Jose Sulaiman

ShoBox has Undefeated Welters & Lightweights on Friday Night

Carl Froch crunches Jermain Taylor in come from behind KO Win

Cory Spinks returns with close win over Deandre Latimore

Chris Hedges asks Where is Rev. Jeremiah Wright when we need him?!

Jeremy Scahill gazes into the Portrait of Dorian Gray that is Obama's Iraq Policy

 

4/24/09  Cory Spinks takes on Deandre Latimore on ShoBox

Hatton spoke with the boxing media this week

Star Boxing adds a loaded undercard to VIP Boxing 

New PacMan-Hitman website was launched

 Experts make their predictions for Froch-Taylor

Hatton-Pacquiao Art unveiled at MGM

Robert Guerrero added to EA Sports' FightNight Round 4

Paul Williams' trainer George Peterson has turned the Punisher into a fight machine

KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the week

 

4/17/09  Marty Mulcahey’s weekend bout cheat sheet

KOFantasyBoxing This Week

Oscar De La Hoya calls it quits

 The Golden Boy’s Retirement Announcement Transcript

ShoBox Fighters Weigh-In

Manny Pacquiao preps for the Hitman-PacMan training report from FightNews

Dan Rafael’s Boxing Notebook, Cotto, Donaire and More

Doug Fischer on Nonito Donaire’s must-win future

The Ring’s rumors, news & notes

Hurts So Good: John Mellencamp’s son wins Indiana Golden Gloves

Thomas Hauser’s commemorative on Arthur Curry

Ron Borges looks back at the life of Arthur Curry

Steve Kim looks at Brian Viloria’s Last Chance

Paul Williams punishes Winky Wright; Areola crumples McCline

If Texas doesn’t like the direction the country’s going Tom Delay has offered a solution: secession

DHS Report names Right Wing groups a danger but Rep. Peter King thinks it’s all the mosques that are the real danger

Robert Parry looks at the danger posed to the Republic by our corporate controlled media

Are Predator Drone Attacks Creating a New Wave of Blowback?

Chris Hedges looks at Israel’s Racist-in-Chief

Allison Kilkenny looks at America’s Blowback Amnesia

Study finds that Crabs can suffer and remember pain

 

4/9/09  Wright vs. Williams Undercard loaded with young prospects!

KOFantasyBoxing Monthly Winners & KQBL Winner

KOFB This Week, New Fighters Added

Miguel Cotto & Uncle/Trainer Evangelista Cotto exchange blows in squabble

Paul Williams is weight-division jumping versus Winky Wright

Chris Arreola may be the Shape of Heavyweight Things to Come

Colin Hart shares his thoughts on Iron Mike Tyson and the upcoming documentary

Patrick Cockburn on what it would take to mend fences with Muslims

Shitheel Glenn Beck fans the flames of a new Cold War

"A Ponzi State" Democracy Now! talks with Prof. Gary Mormino about the state of Florida's economy when all the pensions have dried up

Utah Student who disrupted Oil & Gas Industry Land Grab speaks with Amy Goodman

Noam Chomsky speaks with Democracy Now! about NATO, Israel & Afghanistan

Jeremy Scahill asks how many Democrats will have the spine to block Obama's massive military budget

 

4/3/09  Photo Gallery from Bradley-Holt & Andrade-Tsypko Media Workout

Guerrero opens his own boxing gym TODAY  

Experts favor Bradley over Holt in Showtime Main Event

Jermain Taylor and Carl Froch spoke of their April 25th bout 

 Here's six questions answered by Librado Andrade

Lightweight Lightning up on Saturday night featuring Edwin Valero, Chavez-Katsidis, Diaz-Reyes and Hernandez-Escobedo 

KOFantasyBoxing’s Funny of the Week

 

3/27/09    SHOCKER!: Mayweather Jr. close to ring-return

Eddie Chambers faces tough test in Samuel Peter

Gabriel Montoya looks at Pacquiao-Antillon gym wars

MaxBoxing reports on Margarito's plaster of Paris hands

Roy Jones Jr returns with stoppage victory over Omar Sheika

Miguel Espino kayos Alejandro Garcia at Playboy Mansion

Don King protests Khan's win over Barrera

Oscar Larios, a tragedy waiting-to-happen

Kirkland-Julio Gallery

Check out the Trailer to this Spring's Sure-To-Be-Smash "TYSON" (video below)

The Big Takeover: Matt Taibi's piece on how Wall Street insiders are using the Bail Out to stage a Revolution

Chris Hedges: America Needs a Moral Bailout

Foreign Policy Focus looks at how Obama will address the issue of American Empire

 

3/11/09  Fightnews Gallery of Kirkland-Julio card from San Jose, CA

Lucian Bute goes back into the Lion's Den by Graham Houston

Don King visits with FrankWarren.TV, talks about Amir Khan, promoter Frank Warren and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (video below)

FistThingsFirst from Ringside at Mohegan Sun

Remains Unearthed of Suspected Vampire in Venice!

Zoo Chimpanzee "plotted" stone-throwing attacks

 China plundering Africa's Forests Says Jane Goodall

A million migratory birds killed over the past year for "delicacies" in Cyprus

Seven Million Pounds of Garbage Found in World's Waterways

Sea Levels to surge "at least a meter" by century's end

 

3/09/09  <-ESPN2 FNF from Mohegan Sun Mega-Photo Gallery by Brendon Pierpaoli

 

3/07/09  Delvin Rodriguez defeats Shamone Alvarez to retain USBA Welter Strap at Mohegan Sun

David Sirota goes into the proverbial belly o' the beast on Fox & Friends with Bill PNAC Kristol (video below)

 

2/28/09  Tomasz Adamek kayos Johnathon Banks in eight rounds to defend cruiserweight title

Dan Rafael’s Boxing Notebook

Glen Johnson pounds on Daniel Judah in rematch

2/26/09  Ringside Report from Foxwoods MGM Grand: Troy Ross beats Ehinomen Ehikamenor for The Contender Championship

Tomasz Adamek & Johnathon Banks Weigh-in

Adamek-Banks & Miranda-Lorenzo ShoBox Final Presser Quotes

Dennis Andrade added to Mohegan Sun ESPN2 Fight Card

 

2/25/09  The Contender Series 4 Finale airs tonight...And there will be blood

Jake Donovan of BoxingScene looks at the long road to Lightweight clarification that culminates with Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Juan Diaz

Rocky Juarez ready for Chris John

Pacquiao relinquishes Lightweight strap

Yankee, Si! Cuba, No!  2-time Cuban Gold-Medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux defects to the USA

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to Obama congressional address given poor marks even by Fox News panel

Chris Floyd deconstructs Obama's non-withdrawal withdrawal from Iraq

Jim Hightower video on Corporate Control of Sports "Sports Brandalism" (video below)

 

 

 

2/24/09  Miguel Cotto returns with kayo of Michael Jennings

Kelly Pavlik rebounds from Hopkins loss with one-sided pounding of Marco Antonio Rubio

Mayor of Lansing Michigan brutalizes Fox News Talking Head over Union role in auto-bailouts (video below)

 

 

2/21/09  KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

2/19/09  The Contender 4 Finalists Have Been Announced!

KOFantasyBoxing's New Fighter Adds for the Week

Nate Campbell outguts Ali Funeka in final fight at 135 or thereabouts; Fightnews report & photo gallery

 

2/14/09  KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

Nate Campbell fails to make weight for Lightweight Title defense

 

2/7/09  Darchinyan-Arce & Raimkulov-DeMarco Showtime Championship Boxing Weigh-in!

Ward & Molina win; SHO-Box Results

KOFantasyBoxing's Funny of the Week

 

2/6/09  Vic Darchinyan vs. Jorge Arce Final Presser Quotes

 Joe Calzaghe is retiring

Vic Darchinyan still looking for respect

Hatton vs. Pacquiao tickets are ON SALE NOW

Showtime Championship Boxing has a great record with the Little Men!

Delvin Rodriguez set to battle Shamone Alvarez at Mohegan Sun

Margarito & his camp await results of handwrap investigation

NY Congressman Gary Ackerman takes on Bush Era SEC honchos at Madoff-Ponzi Scam Hearing and rips them up (video below)

Keith Olberman's Special Comment for Citizen Dick Cheney (video below)

 

Economist Paul Krugman points out that bipartisanship isn't likely when GOP "take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh"

TV News loves indignation! GOP outnumber Dems in Cable News Stimulus Debate 

Naomi Klein on the Building Public Revolt Against Rip-Off Rescue Plans

 

1/28/09  Tim Smith looks at the strained relationship between Boxing and MMA

 Tickets On Sale Now fo Glen Johnson-Dan Judah Rematch

Louis Collazo Speaks! Open Letter to Berto & DiBella

Juan Urango looks for Redemption versus Nqoudjo in Montreal

Dave Zirin looks at the non-birth of a political Tiger Woods

Jon McCain is still kinda Mavericky; for better or worse

If we don’t prosecute Dubya forget the American Republic

John W. Dean asks if we are civilized enough to prosecute Bush war crimes

Economic Ruin? It ain’t so bad if it makes us reexamine how we live our lives

KBR needs to be held accountable for deaths of US Servicemen

The Myth, the Legend, the Horseshit; Reagan Mythology and how it is still distorting American politics 

 

1/26/09  Sugar Shane Mosley stuns Antonio Margarito

Mosley deserves Mayweather Superfight

Mosley wants just Mega-Fights from here on out

Bob Arum interviewed by MaxBoxing's Stve Kim

Patrick Cockburn looks at Israel’s detachment from reality

Counterpunch looks at the breadth of Israel’s doctrine of destruction in Gaza

Alexander Cockburn’s final Hail to Chief Dubya

Robert Fisk on what was missing fom Obama’s inaugural

Obama un-does layer of Bush Family secrecy with Executive Order

Fun with Megalomania! Gov Blagojevich likens himself to Gandhi,  Mandela & Dr King in NBC interview

Finally, a Just War! The War on Water Bottles is heating up!

1/20/09  President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address...

 

An Inaugural Poem by Elizabeth Alexander...

The Inaugural Benediction by Rev Joseph Lowery...

 

1/15/09  David Avila writes about Shane Mosley fighting middleweights

Undefeated Southpaws kick start the year for ShoBox: The New Generation

MSG Presser Quotes from Miguel Cotto & Kelly Pavlik

Star Boxing looks back at 2008

Antonio DeMarco fights Almazbek Raiymkulov on Darchinyan-Arce undercard

British foreign secretary David Miliband writes idea of War on Terror was a mistake

Glen Greenwald looks at Thomas Friedman's justifications of Israeli war crimes

Salon asks whether the army is lying about friendly fire deaths

Putting Vets First?  Until 2006, army routinely assigned unlicensed therapists to aide troops who sought mental healthcare

 

1/14/09  Sechew Powell tells Benny Henderson he intends to "end this fight violently!" 

Darchinyan in Vegas to finish prepping for Arce

Thomas Gerbasi recaps the FNF Cuban Invasion at MaxBoxing

DemocracyNow! talks with veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas about final Bush Presser & Dubya's Legacy

Glenn Beck is Not Smart: cites TV's 24 to justify use of torture

Chris Hedges on Gaza & The Language of Death

Counterpunch has an Open Message to Barack Obama 

Joe The Plumber says media "should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting" on war 

1/5/09  Daddy Bush still holds out hope for another Bush Dynasty

Israeli democracy acting very un-democratic in blocking press from Gaza, Fisk asks will it backfire again?

 

1/4/09  Toshiaki Nishioka retains title in Japan

Who says boxing is dead or dying?  Proves cash cow for Nevada in `08

Dicky Eklund charged with agttempted murder

Pavlik back in training today

Blago the Behemoth! Soon-to-be Indicted Gov. Blagojevich boxed in the Golden Gloves

SportingNews’ weekly boxing notes

Once upon a fight: Pep vs. Robinson in Norwich CT

Sechew Powell looks to improve in 2009

12/27/08  Daisuke Naito defeats Shingo Yamaguchi

Kyowa & Niida retire, do American fight fans care?

Karmazin defeats McKart: Major Photo Gallery at Fightnews

Marty Mulcahey offers a list of “books” for boxing’s biggest & brightest

Rafael tabs PacMan FOTY for 2008

Rafael’s top Kayos of 2008

Winky to face the Punisher in 2009

BoxingTalk speaks to Yuriorkis Gamboa

On-Line comic features life & times of Jack Johnson, first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World

Israel kills scores of civilians in Gaza airstrikes

Israel pummels Gaza; airstrike likely to increase support for Hamas

White vigilantes murdered blacks in post-Katrina NOLA

Study critical of Bush admin for borrowing to pay for Iraq & Afghanistan Wars

Counterpunch has a first hand account of the coal ash flood in Tennessee

Coal Ash spill much larger than first reported

Pakistan moves 20,000 troops to Indian border

Cheney still at large and still lying

Counterpunch on the unrepentant Cheney’s war crimes admission

Enviro-activist disrupts Bureau of Land Management Auction of Public Lands

Karl Rove beats Dubya in book-reading contest

2008’s top ten myths about Iraq

 

12/18/08  Glen Johnson is disgusted with even the thought of Dawson-Tarver 2

Holyfield confident of victory over giant Valuev

Lee Groves on the IBHOF inductees

Juan Manuel Marquez to take on Juan Baby Bull Diaz

Kendall Holt outpoints Demetrius Hopkins

Toney wins squeaker versus Oquendo

Ron Borges on The Real Deal

Our warmer wetter world is a lot weirder too: Snow on The Strip

Patrick Cockburn looks at those Shoes Worth a Thousand Words

Rachel Maddow looks at Cheney torture admission and his re-writes of the run-up to Iraq with Ron Suskind(video below)

 

Part two is HERE

 

12/13/08  Is Rahman just going through the motions versus Wlad Klitschko?

Adamek vs. Cunningham, fight of the year?

Adamek defeats Cunningham

Chris Mathews talks to William Ayers about how the Republicans used him as an attempt to smear Obama's character -video below

 

12/8/08  With De La Hoya behind him Pacquiao likely to rest till May/June

De La Hoya out of hospital & headed home; Golden Boy looks to make Paquiao-Hatton bout in spring

Philippines slows to stop to watch Pacquiao-De La Hoya

Filipino communities worldwide celebrate PacMan win

De La Hoya should consider retirement

Pacquiao victory over De La Hoya puts Filipino in elite company

Obama has little intention of ending US occupation of Iraq

Transition Mania!!

Robert Parry looks at Nixon’s sabotage of `68 Paris Peace Talks

 

12/7/08  PacMan Beats Goldie-FightNews Mega Gallery 

Pacquiao demolishes De La Hoya--Steve Kim's Live Fight Blog

Pacquiao win redemption for Roach

Obama picks Shinseki to head Department of Veterans Affairs  

12/5/08  KOFantasyBoxing League Begins TONIGHT!!

KOFantasyBoxing's Pacquiao-De La Hoya LINK-O-RAMA

SecondsOut De La Hoya-Pacquiao Preview Angelo Dundee & Freddie Roach interviews-video below

 

 

12/4/08  The Sports Network: Look out Darchinyan, here comes Oscar

Pacquiao-De La Hoya links at KOFantasyBoxing

Dana the Debunker: Perino claims the Downing Street Memo has been refuted in exchange with Helen Thomas

 

12/3/08  New Grand Prize League Open Now at KOFantasyBoxing.com!

 Sugar Shane comes clean on use of doping agent

Dream Match is a Tough Sell in a Bad Economy

Pacquiao & De La Hoya arrive in Vegas 

Oscar gets a statue in his honor, in front of a building where he fought once and lost

Expectations are falling for Saturday's PPV

More Pacquiao-De La Hoya Links at KOFantasyBoxing

Kayo wins rock the new Ontario venue

Boxing doesn’t need saving, it needs to be watched

Danny Garcia fights in first 8 rounder on Pacquiao-De La Hoya undercard

Joan Guzman looking sharp in sparring

Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes breaks down the lack of good scenarios in Pakistan for Rachel Maddow-video below

 

12/2/08  Weighty issues behind De La Hoya-Pacquiao

The Dream Match: to buy it or not to buy it

More Pacquiao-De La Hoya links at KOFantasyBoxing

Jeremy Scahill looks at the lack of anti-war voices in the Obama cabinet

Sounds like Duncan Hunter's son is as much of a shitheel as he is

 

12/1/08  Williams wears down Phillips, Arreola thumps Walker; Massive FightNews photo gallery

 Pacquiao vs. De La Hoya at a glance En Espanol

Steve Kim ponders how personal it is for Pacquiao

Looks like Comebacking Amir Khan has got Pacmania

RingsideReport.com managing editor's pick for Judgement Night

PacMan looks to define himself with a win over De La Hoya

Thomas Hauser on Hatton-Malignaggi

Counterpunch's Patrick Cockburn on Mumbia to Baghdad, by way of Pakistan

Torture makes terrorists, observations from an American interrogator

Obama's Risky Team of Rivals

Can one Buy ONLY American and survive?

Bill Kristol doesn't think 9/11 caused any Islamophobia or Xenophobia

AlterNet pieces together Mumbai Terror Attacks

 

11/30/08  NBC’s Brian Williams is a disgrace, Glenn Greenwald explains

David Sirota sees the current US predicament foreshadowed in Jon Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China

Weapons are not priority one in maintaining global security

Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell’s former chief of staff, recalls targeting civilians in Vietnam with Nick Turse

 

11/28/08  Chris Arreola gets into shape in Big Bear, CA 

Ref. Toby Gibson has taken his own life

Ricky Hatton returns with stoppage victory over Paul Malignaggi

James Kirkland takes out Brian Vera in 8

11 Boxing related things to be Thankful for

Old Washington wins in keeping Gates as Sec Def

Counterpunch looks at the Obama "Dream Team"

DemocracyNow! looks at Gov. Janet Napolitano's record on immigration in Arizona

 

11/21/08  Hatton is “horrible” says Malignaggi

David Haye takes out Monte Barrett in five rounds at the O2 Arena -video below

David Sirota asks if we should be surprised over the love for Joe Lieberman

Robert Parry writes about Obama’s risk of making Clintonian mistakes

Senator Russ Feingold warns us about the coming Bush pardons

An open letter to President-Elect Obama—PLEASE DO NOT APPOINT HILLARY CLINTON SECRETARY OF STATE

Dubya snubbed by G20 leaders?

Tip of the day: When you go to DC to beg for money it's best not to go via private jet

What Change?  Jeremy Scahill examines Obama’s cabinet options

Auto-making dinosaurs unlikely to adapt or go extinct…will DC save the “Terrible-Lizards”?

Detroit needs cash but the public needs/wants electric cars, who wins?

Rumors suggest Obama may keep Gates as SecDef, but is he as bad as Rumsfeld?

Cornel West talks to Amy Goodman about the election of Barack Obama

11/14/08  Sakio Bika stops Peter Manfredo in three rounds

Professional Heavyweight Journey begins: Olympian Deontay Wilder Debuts

Calzaghe beats on and bloodies Roy Jones Jr:Photo Gallery

Fight Chick on Calzaghe win over Jones

Bernard Hopkins beats on Kelly Pavlik:Photo Gallery

 

11/07/08  Darchinyan crushes Mijares

Roy Jones Jr. Training Conference Call Transcript

Marijuana wins big in Election Day ballot initiatives

10/27/08  Joe the Plumber is a Socialist and so are you!  David Morris explains at Counterpunch

10/09/08  Dawson-Tarver final presser heats up

Steve Kim describes the long journey to Dawson vs. Tarver

Tickets Available Now for Mijares-Darchinyan

Antonio Tarver Workout Quotes

Chad Dawson Workout Pix

Experts Weigh-In on Peter-Klitschko

Pavlik vs. Hopkins Conf. Call Transcript

Can Coal Be Clean?  A Democracy Now! Debate

Palin connected to whacky Alaska secessionist group

Chalmers Johnson on Voting the Fate of the Nation

Robert Parry asks how far Palin will go with the slurs and slams

What's behind McCain's "that one" comment?

 

10/06/08  Fightnews photo gallery: KO Festival for HBO Show Prospects

Alfredo Angulo brutalizes Andrei Tsurkan

Pure Fiction: Cheney touts Bush Admin’s record of Wildlife Conservation

Trickle-Down Economics has finally trickled up…now we’re all in the piss

John McCain is getting angrier and more allergic to the truth on the campaign trail

 

10/04/08  Abraham vs. Marquez postponed-King Abraham’s got the flu

Dan Raphael on Vitali Klitschko, also HBO B.A.D. and Israel Vazquez

Steve Kim spotlights Alfredo Angulo before his fight tonight on HBO

A Day in the Life of Future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins

Palin said she was all for divesting in Sudan before she’s actually done it

Palin spent much of debate reading her prepared talking points

Dennis Kucinich’s Statement from House Floor speaking against the Bailout

Chalmers Johnson tells us we’ve got the money, but it’s all in the defense budget

Alexander Cockburn breaks down Biden-Palin Debate

 News from the Corporatocracy: “Liberal Media” isn’t all that liberal despite FoxNewsies best effort to call it such 

William Black on the Keating Five Legacy and Jon McCain

Was it Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions that derailed Wall Street Bailout even before Pelosi’s speech?

Politics from the Pulpit, Christian Pastors push McCain on Parishioners despite federal laws banning such action

 

 

10/01/08  Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) points out Jon McCain's deregulation-friendly history and connection to Charles Keating (video below)...

News reports explaining the Keating Five scandal and the links to Jon McCain (video below)...

 

9/30/08  Samuel Peter vs. Vitali Klitschko conf. call transcript

The Pavlik-Hopkins undercard is LOADED!

Pacquiao & De La Hoya begin 6 city press tour to publicize December sixth bout

KOFantasyBoxing’s New Fighters for the Week 9/29

Miranda, McGirt Jr. and Johnson return in Bad Boys of Boxing card on Nov. 11th

Fightnews Photo Gallery:  Mosley vs. Mayorga

Kirk Lang talks to Mark Brown after the win over Tony Grano

Fightnews Report & Photo Gallery: Wiiliams & Arreola win by KO on Versus card

De La Hoya hooks up with Nacho Beristain to prep for PacMan

William Dettloff ponders whether some of Mosley’s sweetness is artificial

Steve Kim on Sugar Shane’s last second smash

Right Winger Michele Malkin blames Latinos for the Mortgage Meltdown

So intent on calling Iraq a success, McCain refers to Iraq as a “victory” despite Gen. Petraeus’ advice

Minnesota Republican blames minorities for current financial woes

Chalmers Johnson explains where all our money has gone and where it’ll keep going

David Sirota’s top five reasons the Bailout should NOT be passed

McCain and Obama sparred about it, but what did Kissinger really say?

Robert Parry looks at some of the more ominous omissions from Friday’s Presidential Debate

9/22/08 

Fightnews Photo Gallery: Marquez vs. Casamayor

9/11/08  Conference Call Quotes from Nate Campbell, Joan Guzman, Timothy Bradley & Edner Cherry

Doug Fischer's SoCal Notebook

Tom Gerbasi looks at Vernon Forrest's chances in the rematch with Mora

Vitali Klitschko healthy & in training for Peter--pix to prove it!

Steve Kim on Nate Campbell

Ray Mercer calls out David Haye

Andre Berto battles Steve Forbes on Mosley-Mayorga undercard

Counterpunch looks at The First 9/11

Startling poll results about 9/11 show how much US reputation has suffered

A 9/11 What If?

Jim Hightower considers the Faux Populism of Sarah Palin

Woodward book sheds like on Adm. Fallon's days at Centcom working with Dubya & his cohorts

CNN's Michael Ware on McCain's delusions about Iraq and the success of the Surge

Ray McGovern on preemption tactics used to quell dissent in St. Paul

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens loses bid to have corruption charges against him dropped

Climate Change Scientists Urge Decrease in Meat Consumption!

 

 

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