External RASKIN?S RANTS: BAD In A.C. With MAB & JCC (Plus FNF, FX, AMC, etc.) I was in Atlantic City on Saturday night for the Boxing After Dark card headlined by Yuriorkis Gamboa?s four-round destruction of Jorge Soli… Tue, 29 Mar 2011
External Arum?s Featherweight Feast Recipe Calls For Additional Baking Yuriorkis Gamboa fights on HBO this Saturday night from Atlantic City. Juan Manuel Lopez fights on Showtime on April 16 from Bayamon, Puerto… Thu, 24 Mar 2011
External The Running Diary: Cotto-Mayorga, Martinez-Dzinziruk & The Neverending Saturday Night As I stated the first time I wrote a pay-per-view running diary, I freely admit to stealing the running diary concept from Bill Simmons, who… Tue, 15 Mar 2011
External Solo Cotto: Can He Carry A Pay-Per-View With No Supporting Cast? For Miguel Cotto, the easy part of the job comes on Saturday night. Defeating Ricardo Mayorga? No sweat?at least when you compare it to the … Thu, 10 Mar 2011
External Conflicted Over Canelo: Is Alvarez The Goods? It?s really not fair to try to guess whether a 20-year-old is going to be successful in life. How many sophomores or juniors in college even… Thu, 03 Mar 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: The Mini Mailbag, The Montiel Massacre & Multiple Moras As I noted in last week?s TSS debut of Raskin?s Rants, I?ll be combining a one- or two-email mailbag with the traditional bullet-pointed nug… Tue, 22 Feb 2011
External RASKIN?S RANTS: Of Hump Day, Hopkins, and Horrible Hairstyles Can a boxing column cure your work-week blues? That?s what I?ve come to TheSweetScience.com to find out. For obvious reasons, nobody likes M… Thu, 17 Feb 2011
External A Numbers Game? Assessing Boxing?s Place In The Statistical Revolution In baseball, they use DIPS, FIP, VORP, WAR, and PECOTA. In football, it?s YACO, ANYPA, DVOA, and DYAR. In basketball, there are fewer acrony… Wed, 16 Feb 2011
External Arum spins conversation his way with Showtime/CBS move You can call Bob Arum selfish if you want. You can call him spiteful or temperamental or honesty-impaired. Some might even suggest he's down… Thu, 03 Feb 2011
External Chavez Jr. is back, but will he get back on track? Eleven. Ten. Six. Five. Four. Three. One. No, that?s not Forrest Gump attempting a countdown. It?s not some complicated mathematical sequenc… Wed, 26 Jan 2011
External Don?t look now, but HBO might just deserve a little credit Who has the best chin in boxing today? Glen Johnson? Vitali Klitschko, perhaps? Maybe Sakio Bika? Here?s one more name to consider that does… Wed, 19 Jan 2011
External Bright ?Lights?: A long-shot lead powers FX?s new boxing drama The tagline for Lights Out, the first major television drama series set in the world of boxing, consists of four simple words: ?Everybody lo… Tue, 11 Jan 2011
External The anti wish list for 2011 At this time of year, we?re supposed to resolve to make changes that will better our lives, but most of us end up going down an alternative … Fri, 07 Jan 2011
External Morales-Barrera IV makes more sense than mismatches You can?t talk about Marco Antonio Barrera?s career without talking about Erik Morales, and you can?t talk about Morales? career without tal… Wed, 01 Dec 2010
External Marquez-Katsidis: Thiller? Mismatch? Both? As you may have heard, styles make fights. But there?s a little-known companion clause: Miles break fights. As in, if the fighters are miles… Tue, 23 Nov 2010
External The official 24/7 Pacquiao-Margarito drinking game Manny Pacquiao and Freddie Roach have a mutually beneficial, highly successful, longstanding partnership. But they ain?t got nuthin? on the … Tue, 26 Oct 2010
External JuanMa takes aim at a ?name? against Rafael Marquez You fight, then you embrace. You fight again, then you embrace again. Another fight, another embrace. That pattern could describe the career… Mon, 25 Oct 2010
External Score losers: What can be done about out-of-whack scorecards? Rarely does dumb luck determine results in sports. But often it’s timing, a close cousin of luck, that makes all the difference. New Y… Sun, 24 Jan 2010
External Ten indelible images from 2009 Boxing is one sport I never experienced on the radio. I listened to countless baseball games on the radio as a kid. I’ve taken in plen… Mon, 28 Dec 2009
External Is division jumping good or bad? In a span of two months last year, the business side of American boxing took two devastating defeats: Both the sport?s all-time pay-per-view… Tue, 07 Apr 2009
