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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - At the time… 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 Philadelphia to accommodations two states away in New York.
And in mid-November, when autumn temperatures had dipped to levels no longer tolerable for a 38-year northerner turned 18-month southerner… I was wishing I was anywhere else.
But now I’m glad I went.
If I hadn’t, I would have missed the career swan song of a true ringmaster.
And, unfortunately, I’m not referring to Roy Jones Jr.
By announcing his retirement last Thursday, Joe Calzaghe retroactively made a chilly night at Madison Square Garden quite significant to both my journalism career and the sport’s recent history.
The jazz-reared Welsh import was at his free-form best in a stirring Gotham premiere, summoning scat-style weapons from Jones’ best days and using them with virtuoso skill after climbing off the deck against a faded but dangerous 39-year-old foe. [details]
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 Philadelphia to accommodations two states away in New York.
And in mid-November, when autumn temperatures had dipped to levels no longer tolerable for a 38-year northerner turned 18-month southerner… I was wishing I was anywhere else.
But now I’m glad I went.
If I hadn’t, I would have missed the career swan song of a true ringmaster.
And, unfortunately, I’m not referring to Roy Jones Jr.
By announcing his retirement last Thursday, Joe Calzaghe retroactively made a chilly night at Madison Square Garden quite significant to both my journalism career and the sport’s recent history.
The jazz-reared Welsh import was at his free-form best in a stirring Gotham premiere, summoning scat-style weapons from Jones’ best days and using them with virtuoso skill after climbing off the deck against a faded but dangerous 39-year-old foe. [details]
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