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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - I've watched a lot of college basketball. I've covered Notre Dame, Holy Cross and Florida at regional sites in the NCAA tournament and once watched Niagara University lose an NIT game in a venue that's now a Native American casino...Heck, I’ve even called Jim Boeheim a mothe...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It was nearly five years ago. But be sure, the closer Jarrett Hurd gets to meeting Erislandy Lara in Las Vegas the more he'll be relying on what happened to the southpaw stylist in California back in 2013. On a late spring night at what was then the Home Depot Center, the former amateur world ch...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The answer depends on when fans came of age. Those in their 50s will hear the phrase “big heavyweight fight” and instantly recall 1970s images of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Those a decade younger might ponder early-1990s matches involving Evander Holyfield and Rid...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Badou Jack has the fight he wanted. The decorated former Olympian will meet the lineal king of the 175-pound division – hard-punching Canadian-based southpaw Adonis Stevenson – on May 19 in "Superman's" adopted Montreal backyard. But while he concedes the imminent matchu...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - The fighters are as tall as an American middle-schooler. And the weight of a model who’s just scarfed a sundae. Nevertheless, promoter Tom Loeffler has no qualms suggesting Saturday's card in suburban Los Angeles -- dubbed "Superfly 2" -- will leave a TV mark far greater than t...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It's not hard to find a boxing fan or media member who'll suggest -- in an era where superstars and promoters tend to pick and choose their fights -- that title belts no longer matter. Mikey Garcia disagrees. Already a champ in three weight classes -- and the WBC's incumbent at ligh...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It's a pretty good time to be Stephen Espinoza. Though the chill from a Super Bowl week in Minneapolis may linger awhile, the Showtime executive surely has a lot to look forward to once he returns to work in midtown Manhattan. He was elevated to president of the network's entire sports ope...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Think Vasyl Lomachenko is the premier authority on a quick transition from amateur ring success to professional stardom? Then Claressa Shields has a simple message for you: Hold my beer. The confident Michigander mirrored the Ukrainian's dual Olympic golds with wins at the 2012 and 2016 G...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Music fans of a certain age may remember Jon Landau. He was a rock critic in Boston who caught a concert at a local venue in the early 1970s and essentially launched the career of a then-struggling New Jersey singer/songwriter named Bruce Springsteen with the following turn of phrase in a revi...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Few would argue 2017 was a banner year for boxing. We had a heavyweight changing of the guard in London, a middleweight summit meeting in Las Vegas and a circus to end all circuses between guys named "Money" and "Notorious." But if you think Randy Gordon is satisfied to simply sit back...