Saturday, July 23 welterweight Jose Benavidez Jr (24-0, 16 KO) will face Francisco Santana (24-4-1, 12 KO). Here’s my candid Q&A with the boxer who definitely has something to prove. You’ve come a long way since defeating Herrera and moving up to welterweight. What has been your biggest career challenge since moving up? “I haven’t really had a lot of time
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Expectations have always been high for former interim welterweight champion Jose Benavidez Jr. (24-0, 16 KOs). At age 16, he was the youngest ever Golden Gloves Champion. As a result, he was granted a license by the Nevada State Athletic Commission at 17. Today, he’s promoted by Top Rank and trained by the venerable Freddie Roach. At 24, Jose’s skills
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This one’s going to sting for a while. Olympic gymnast John Orozco has withdrawn from the 2016 Rio Games due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus in his left knee . The injury occurred while dismounting from the horizontal bar during Olympic team training camp, U.S.A. Gymnastics announced. It’s the second major knee injury in four years
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One of the most unique boxers in history is yet again rewriting his legacy. Manny Pacquiao, 38, is planning to fight later this year, just three months after announcing his retirement, ESPN reported on Tuesday. We last saw Pacquiao in a one sided victory over Timothy Bradley that completed the trilogy of fights between the two. Following a unanimous loss to
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I have a great deal of affection for Minor League Baseball. MiLB ballparks provide one of the few family friendly sporting outings in the country. Growing up in the Northeast, I was able to attend a handful of Pawtucket Red Sox games. McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, wasn’t the place I could wantonly wear Yankee gear to the park. However, I was fortunate enough to
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This is my family garden in upstate N.Y. These are my mother’s hands holding the veggies of her labor. For a time, we had hogs and chickens in the backyard too. The garden is a legacy of my Granddaddy’s heart for providing for the family; it’s been nourishing my family for as long as I’ve been alive. As a child, pulling
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Quite a bit has been said about the women Floyd Mayweather surrounds himself with. His often volatile relationships with ex-girlfriends, and mothers of his four children have made international headlines. We’ve even been exposed to the “sister-wives”, an outrageous entourage of mostly strippers, who have been seen doing washing the champ in his personal bathtub, and rolling blunts on Showtime’s
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It’s been said that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In theory, that step becomes a linear path towards a perceived destination of success. However, the deeper we get into the journey the more we realize success is not always a straight line. It’s more of a squiggly one leading from one place to the
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Lessons I learned in youth sports have become tenants of my adult life. Especially when you grow up in a small town, finding a place on an athletic team can keep you out of trouble, and abject boredom. It would be fair to say that I was a “spirited” adolescent with a strong need for verbal expression. OK, I had
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