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“As goes the heavyweight division, so goes boxing.” Those words were said to m, e by legendary trainer/cornerman Angelo Dundee. He said them to me at breakfast a few days before the rematch between Heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks and Dundee’s fighter—Muhammad Ali—in September 1978. Seven months earlier, Spinks had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, when he took his 6-0-1 record into the ring in the Superdome in New Orleans and won a 15-round split decision against the 36-year-old Ali to capture the heavyweight crown. That morning of the rematch, at breakfast, ...

July 29th, 2021 By Geoffrey Huchel Tributes poured in as artists such as KISS’s Paul Stanley and Travis Tritt remember their colleague and friend, Dusty Hill. The ZZ Top bassist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee passed away July 28, 2021 in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas. He was 72. Born Joseph Michael Hill on May 19, 1949, Hill was an American musician, singer and songwriter, who was a member of ZZ Top since its inception in 1969. Hill, his brother, Rocky, and fellow band mate Frank Beard produced fifteen studio albums, four live albums, seven compilation albums and 44 sin...

July 29th, 2021 By Joyce Davis I grew up with a lot of TV and a lot of book reading. Most movies that we watch the hit men were the bad guys. They are the guys the heroes are trying to get away from that were sent to come stop whomever got in the way. A hit man is not fighting for his or her own agenda. They have a job or a focus point to accomplish the goal of who sent them. They do as they are told to do. They do not deviate from their mission or their orders. The person or persons that gave them the orders are the only people they would listen to to resend their mission.

5. Terran Most of the time I don’t reflect on these aspects of identity very much. Most of the time I’m a human being struggling to navigate the vagaries and vicissitudes of life, however, there are times that force me to confront identity in ether positive and negative ways. The European football championships has been one such occasion. If I am to.be perfectly honest football isn’t my game. It’s entertaining enough but I wouldn’t watch it as a priority. Nor, if I’m to continue down the road of candour, can I say with any rigour that I care too much about nationality. I regard it...

July 26th, 2021 By Janet Grace If you’re in Colorado, batten down the hatches where you and your fur babies are concerned. While summer is well known for its increase in fleas, ticks, flies, mosquitoes during the season, having wild life test positive for the bubonic plague, is not one that usually enters the equation, endangering them and us; however, that is exactly what is happening this year because cicadas flying into our hair wasn’t enough, Covid wasn’t enough and hurry up and get that flea treatment, already! A ten year old child was the latest victim of the bubonic plague whi...