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Tommy Craggs
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"... then criticize Whitlock for only going after that type of talent." Read more
Rigondeaux snickered, dropped his head and smirked, taking a last long drag on his cigarette before flicking it on the ground and stamping it out with his sneaker. "Oh you know, I melted down both my gold medals into my mouth. I used to fight in this place …" Read more
Only a few months before, I had heard that the new captain of the Cuban national team, since Savon had stepped down, two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux, had attempted to defect in Brazil with teammate Erislandy Lara and had been arrested. This amounted to the highest-profile boxing defection in Cuban… Read more
My first trip to Havana was in February of 2000, in the midst of the Elian Gonzalez fiasco. This time, what was referred to as "political kiddie porn" entered into the civil war fought across 90 miles of ocean. At the age of five, Elian Gonzalez and his mother, along with twelve other passengers, had left Cuba on a… Read more
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I'll defer to Marchman on this, but as far as I know, there was never any indication the conversation was off the record. He wasn't being devious, either: He was genuinely trying to get the grumpy old prick to do a Kinja Q&A. Read more
Maybe I'm not following. I think you're saying that "common decency" would've been for us not to publish the exchange, i.e. for us not to be transparent. I mean, you're free to criticize us for any number of things, but the reason you can call us cavalier jackasses is because we're totally transparent about being… Read more
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1989 NCAA Final Four. I crush the bones of Sean Higgins's right hand with a ball-peen hammer. Read more
No idea. Deadspin doesn't see that money. I'll have to tap in the Commerce people. Read more
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Yeesh. Yes, indeed. That's my fault. I saw the Bruce Cumings quote and figured it was solid. Read more
In fairness: