External Pacquiao-Marquez: The Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part II) We left off yesterday with the letter ?M? and with the revelation that Twitter is an exclusively Mexican form of social media. We now contin… Thu, 17 Nov 2011
External Pacquiao-Marquez: The Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part I) Ah, Las Vegas. One of my favorite places in the world to be for one night. One of my least favorite places in the world to be for five night… Wed, 16 Nov 2011
External The Official 24/7 Pacquiao-Marquez Drinking Game...RASKIN Give your keys to Lloyd Dobler, boxing fans, because it?s time to get rosy-cheeked and full-bladdered with another edition of the 24/7 Drink… Fri, 28 Oct 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: A Barker, A Pig Parker & A Possible Jump-The-Sharker Between the new fall season of television, baseball playoff games that last into the wee hours, NFL football in full swing, seven hours of t… Wed, 05 Oct 2011
External Guilty Pleasure: The Countdown To Margarito-Cotto Is On...RASKIN We?re not exactly looking at a barren boxing calendar for the remainder of 2011. Over the next 11 Saturdays, there are 10 fight cards on eit… Wed, 28 Sep 2011
External The Vegas Fight Week Experience From A To Z (Part II) We now conclude our two-part exploration of all things Mayweather-Ortiz. If you missed Part I ? well, let your lazy fingers do some work and… Wed, 21 Sep 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Tipping A Few Back In Good Fun, Pouring One Out In Sheer Sadness In the current boxing game, we unfortunately get only three fights a year that cross over to ?major event? status with mainstream America: t… Mon, 12 Sep 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: From Unwarranted DQs To Unwarranted Blurcles As a lifelong Philly sports fan, I suppose I have to open this week?s column by commenting on the almost embarrassing bounties reaped by my … Tue, 02 Aug 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Nicknames, No-Shows & The Blessed Return Of Broner Jokes A couple of weeks back, I picked the Miami Heat to win the NBA Finals and the Vancouver Canucks to capture Lord Stanley?s Cup. So, uh, I thi… Thu, 23 Jun 2011
External No Comparison: Canelo Rises Above His Hypothetical Rival Within the confines of my own column (the one place in the world where I actually hold some authority), I?m officially placing a ban on comp… Tue, 21 Jun 2011
External The Mayweather-Ortiz Six-Pack Of Signing Subplots After Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez finalized details for their third fight a few weeks back, I authored a column entitled ?A Six-P… Mon, 13 Jun 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Naazim Richardson, Patti LaBelle & Other Great Fight Motivators For this week?s one-toe dip into the mailbag waters, I?m using an email sent not about last week?s column, but about last week?s Ring Theory… Tue, 07 Jun 2011
External Oscar Noticed For His Words, Hopkins Noticed For His Looks Let?s start this week?s column with my predictions for the NHL and NBA finals. I predict the Heat will beat the Mavs because if there?s one … Wed, 01 Jun 2011
External Pacquiao-Marquez III: A Six-Pac Of Signing Subplots Three years ago, on the day after Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez II, I wrote a column for ESPN.com entitled ?The Pacquiao-Marquez Postfi… Tue, 24 May 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Big-Name Bonanza, From Pacquiao To Ward To Hopkins To Haye Another week, another interesting email about Manny Pacquiao, another excuse for me to put Pac-Man?s name in my headline and earn my article… Tue, 17 May 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Rumors, Exaggerations & Twitter Recommendations Since Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley was billed as a major ?event,? I?m going to take the glass-half-full approach and call the past week o… Sat, 14 May 2011
External The PPV Running Diary: Pacquiao vs. Mosley This past Saturday night brought another major boxing pay-per-view event, and you know what means: more bitching from Raskin about how late … Mon, 09 May 2011
External 365 Days Later: Mayweather Won The Battle ? Mosley Won The War You learn a lot about a man from the way he responds to adversity. To his credit and to his detriment, Floyd Mayweather spent most of his bo… Mon, 02 May 2011
External A Victor Lap For Andre Berto You can spend hours studying the fight videos, absorbing the combatants? styles, every little intricacy, in hopes of assessing and accuratel… Wed, 13 Apr 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: ?Take The Test? And The Best Of The Rest The first pitch of the baseball season in my hometown of Philadelphia was thrown at 1:05 p.m. this past Friday, and just a few hours earlier… Tue, 05 Apr 2011
