By Ron Borges
After a predictable start, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament went berserk, which is why they call it March Madness, isn’t it? Whether the “madness’’ relates to so many incredibly close games and the annual string of upsets or to the ire of people tearing up their brackets from coast to coast is debatable […]

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By Ron Borges
With interest in boxing again on the rise everywhere but in the heavyweight division and in the pages of dying newspapers around the country, we will begin a new monthly rating of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet.
The mythical pound-for-pound championship has long been seen as a noteworthy debate, because it allows […]

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By Ron Borges
Sportswriters and fans never cease to amaze me. Troy Brown’s visit to the New York Jets last week reminded me of that once again.
Apparently based on nothing but air, some media folks in these parts assumed that, as one person put it, Brown “would not ever consider teams that would be slated to […]

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By Ron Borges
March Madness is upon us and so bracket fever has broken out across America. People with little or no interest in basketball in general or college basketball in particular are suddenly plunking down a few quid, dinero, euros, pesos, schillings or dollars and trying to figure out if Geroge Mason can do it […]

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By Ron Borges
On the matter of Spygate, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has changed his story more times than John Kerry changes his mind.
First, it was nothing. Now it’s quite something. First “we’’ discovered it, then the Jets discovered it. First the Patriots “admitted it.’’ Then he remembered the Jets had a videotape of it before […]

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