A mention in the New Yorker

Much to my surprise, on Sept. 9, 2013, my name got a mention in a boxing piece done by Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker.

If I had placed a prop bet on my name ever getting in there, it would have paid in the range of 20,000-to-one. Pretty cool.

Here's the excerpt:

Suffice it to say that, during the past few decades, boxing fans have become, like Mayweather in the ring, rather defensive. The sport they love has regularly been pronounced dead, and somehow the regularity of this pronouncement has had the effect of increasing, rather than decreasing, their sensitivity to it. Kevin Iole, who covers boxing for Yahoo! Sports, found Wilbon and Kornheiser guilty of “pure laziness.” Mark Ortega, on the Web site of The Ring, criticized their “limited knowledge” of the sport. And Dan Rafael, ESPN’s indispensible boxing reporter, took to Twitter to declare his colleagues “ignorant and/or lazy,” adding, “I declare afternoon sports talk banter dead.”

Click here to read the rest...