The PunditBert Sugar is one of the world’s foremost authorities on boxing. A member of the Boxing Hall of Fame, Sugar has written over …
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 4)
The PoliticianIn Ratner’s eyes, the man holding the people of New York hostage is State Assemblyman Bob Reilly, a Democrat from Colonie. Reilly has …
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 3)
The LobbyistMarc Ratner spent 21 years with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, including 14 as its executive director. In the mid-1990s, when MMA was …
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 1)
It’s a frigid February evening in New York City, and yet scores of fans have braved the cold weather to gather at the midtown …
Pearl Jam brought its Backspacer Tour to Madison Square Garden on May 20. What did I think of the show?
Originally published at: Columbia News Service. (Archived here) Also published in the Berkshire Eagle – April 29, 2010. Country music has taught us how …
Once upon a time, concept albums were hip. It was a long time ago, back when the shower curtain wasn’t the only piece of …
I thought about getting a ring to commemorate my back-to-back fantasy football championships because of this article.
Elizabeth Taylor. Billy Graham. Fidel Castro. What do they have in common? In this context, they’re among the most popular picks in death pools.
The extended version of my AMA article is up at The Columbia Journalist. However, it’s not exactly what I had written. As such, here’s …
From the Archives: In honor of my least favorite quarterback in the NFL, I thought I’d recycle this article I wrote for a sports …
BRONX, NEW YORK – It’s Saturday, October 3 and Modell’s Sporting Goods store is having its grand reopening in Bay Plaza in the Bronx. …
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Can You Use it in a Sentence? Can You Give Me the Definition? Can You Spell it for Me?
For 9-year-old Shivani Angappan, “poinsettia” spelled v-i-c-t-o-r-y. Luckily for her, she didn’t actually spell it that way.
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Battleground State: The Fight to Legalize MMA in New York (Part 2)
The EvolutionIn many ways, the biggest knockout punch in MMA history didn’t come from Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Chuck Liddell, or any other of …
Former Minnesota Senator Dean Barkley weighs in on the viability of a third-party.
“The Vertigo Tour” hits MSG. Here’s my review of the concert.
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is iconic. But Daniel B. Smith thinks it’s moronic. The pictures are nice, but the text is bland, How it …
Guido Contini is a legendary and groundbreaking Italian director who has grand plans for an epic film about his beloved homeland. The only problem …