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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - There are a couple things I’ve always promised myself. I barely play golf. But if I was ever lucky enough to score a hole in one, I’ve vowed to pluck the ball out of the cup, slide the club into the bag and head straight to my car – because it’ll never get any better. Same goes for bowling. I consider mysel...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” OK, so Frank Sinatra might not have been referring to Brooklyn when he belted out his ode to New York, but for Jermell Charlo the city’s most populous borough has been quite the proving ground. The WBC’s 154-pound kingpin made the first defense of his...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Add three more names to the modern category. A trio of television staples from the 1980s and 1990s – Donald Curry, Julian Jackson and Buddy McGirt – ascended into ring immortality last week when they were announced as the Class of 2019 inductees to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. The three fighters combined for championship...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - In Florida, we call it the “cone of uncertainty.” Whenever a hurricane clears the island of Hispaniola in the eastern Caribbean, meteorologists of every Sunshine State persuasion are sent scrambling to computer models to trace the path of the would-be storm as it approaches our to...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s all in the voice. Well… sometimes, at least. Given the nature of boxing as a sport, it’s not terribly surprising that fighters express confidence during interviews. In fact, it’s probably far better for an athlete’s health – given the violent means by which victory is secured – that he or she enter th...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s a tradition my wife and I started when our son, Ryan, now 10, was far younger. Each night as we put him to bed, we’d have him list whatever good things had happened to him that day – whether at school, home or anywhere in between – as well as a few things for which he was thankful. And...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - At the time, 10 years ago this past Thursday… it was a giant pain in the neck. Waking up early to schlep 90 miles to an airport in Jacksonville. Gathering supplies to make the trip with an 8-month-old son. Enduring the “it seemed like a good idea, cost-wise” drive from arrival in Center City Phila...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - With those 34-year-old Don Henley lyrics swirling in my sun-scorched, sleep-deprived head, I’m back at the keyboard to consider an idealistic mandate – constructing the ideal sanctioning body. Of course, as with most mandates – be they political, popular or existential – some dissension exists...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Think you’ve got a challenging commute? It’s nothing compared to what Arnold Khegai has coming. The Ukraine native is on the verge of his second business trip to the United States, which will involve a 13-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean to New York and a two-hour jaunt down Interstate 9...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Regis Prograis has his eyes on bigger prizes. In fact, he admits names like Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford infiltrate his career dreams. But before he climbs the ambition ladder to welterweight, there’s important work to be done. The dynamic 29-year-old begins his final resume-building offensiv...