HEADLINES -- Feb. 10-12, 2003

February 12, 2003
* Miami Herald: Michalczewski's wife takes refuge from violent champ in Florida
* Esquire interviews Roy Jones Jr.
* Steve Kim: Biting the hand that feeds you
* Boxing 316: Ruiz ready for Jones challenge
* Dallas Morning News: Johnson sets his sights on Savarese
* Boxing Insider: Maurice Harris - Fighting is his passion
* El Paso Times: DLH - "El Paso fans are the best"
* El Paso Times: DLH insists El Paso fight possible
* Eddie Goldman: Tyson and Hopkins
* AP: Judge to decide Mesi case after sides can't settle
* Steve Tobey: Rivera holds out for shot at glory
* Abq. Tribune: Tapia tell-all - old story, new worries
* Gulf News: Scouts guide Hamed back to his camp
* AP: Harding ready for her pro debut
* Portland Tribune: Harding throwing herself into a new passion
* Boxing 316: Alex Dombroff interviews Paulie Ayala
* Jac Boxing interviews cruiser champ Wayne Braithwaite
* Bergen Record: English takes up fights outside boxing arena too
* Corpus Christi Caller-Times: Guerrero to fight on Saturday
* Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: Local boxer ready for pro audition
* Lorain Morning Journal (Ohio): Quiles delivers ch'ship to Lorain
* Florida: Ordinance could restrict amateur boxing and alcohol together
* Rocky Mountain Collegian: CSU junior goes pro in boxing
* UK: Sanigar to lobby for Catley shot
* Croydon Guardian (UK): Bleak future for Delroy
* Nottingham Evening Post (UK): Boxing set for Sneinton return
* Ireland: Mayo boxers into last four
* Asahi Shimbun (Japan): Boxing match cemented public's love affair with TV
* South Africa: Stability soon to be feature of KZN boxing
* Philippines: Pacquaio apologizes to sports writers
* GhanaWeb: Three African title fights for Accra March 21
* Ghana: Friends of boxing identify problems in the sport
* Zambia: Boxing board KO's contender Kamanga
* Daily Nation (Kenya): Huge entry for novices tourney
* Uganda: Hinkley course on, KCC back with gold
* Barbados Advocate: Call for common sporting body



February 11, 2003
In case you were curious about yesterday -
Please read this, excerpted from
* Patrick Kehoe: The Buzz - WBA wants Dorin-Callist and it stinks

Giving credit where credit is due!
SecondsOut.com's friend Charles Jay of TotalAction.com has been doing applaudable investigative reporting on a range of issues to do with boxing in the United States. His reporting on the apparent conflict of interest predicament facing Nevada's regulatory body beginning January 21, 2003, concerning Tony Alamo Sr. - VP at the boxing Mecca, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino - and his son Tony Alamo Jr. who happens to be a member of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, has the boxing industry A-Buzz. A son encharged by the state government to oversee that the business practices of the father meet state law? Sticky wicket there.

Two weeks ago (Ed: Jan. 31, to be exact) ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas presented material on the Alamo situation almost verbatim to material which Mr. Jay researched and presented at TotalAction.com (Ed: on Jan. 21, 27, and 29). On air, Mr. Atlas curiously failed to give a source or accreditation of the material to Mr. Jay. Almost as strangely, HBO's respected analyst Larry Merchant brought up the Alamo matter Saturday night, noting material written by Tom Hauser presented to the Senate Hearings on Wednesday, but not crediting the materials' progenitor/originator Mr. Jay. If Mr. Merchant didn't know the sourcing of the story, perhaps he should have, given his manifest experience as a boxing writer on the beat in the 1960s and 1970s. It should be noted - much to his credit - Mr. Merchant did give an on-air source for the story (Ed: Though the wrong one)!

But other media talking heads and print writers, who should know better, have long pirated researched reporting in their columns/writings without giving notice and credit for the Web sources from which the material originated. Some writers such as George Kimball ALWAYS take pains to note and credit those who do original sourcing and to those like him the Buzz-sters salute you! Sadly, this is not the norm. It's taken as "normative" when a quick scoop is lifted from website copy to be used in newspaper reporting, but all to often entire arguments, descriptions and analysis have been plagiarized by print writers and on-air reporters, NEVER crediting the Web boxing writers.

Can't we all be professional about this? Surely the web hackers ARE the post-modern beat writers for the sport. The trafficking of diamond edged mass info flows from this electronic medium 24/7 and it's virtual constructs and interpretations ARE the essential framework of boxing in our time. Time to fess up gentlemen/gentlewomen.

Let's see if Mr. Atlas can tell it like it really is, when next preaching from the text material he's using on any given Friday night, to prove the moral authority of his placement on the network that employs him. He's after all an honest man, isn't he? He could start with mentioning Mr. Jay. Then we can shake hands and move on?

We shall all be watching...............

P. Kehoe


* Memphis Comm. Appeal: Tyson's selling - should we buy?
* NY Daily News: Iron Mike's family feud
* UK: Klitschko brothers in threat to Lewis belt
* Anthony Evans: Wladimir has "little interest" in Byrd rematch
* LVRJ: DLH - Mosley offer still on table
* Boxing Talk: Elisa Harrison interviews John Ruiz
* El Paso Times: Lazcano a champion in many ways
* Boxing Talk: Tszyu looks ahead after beating Leija
* Eastside Boxing interviews Gary Shaw
* Kevin Iole: In rehab for 12th time, Tapia pulls back from brink
* Jim Gintonio: One more chance for fallen boxer?
* Shannon Davidson: Ali Boxing returns to Louisville
* Gregory Leon: Raul Marquez retires
* Max Boxing: Marty Mulcahey's Boxing from an Odd Angle
* Press Release: Maskaev set for return in Lewiston
* Eastside Boxing: One-punch checkmate!
* NY Daily News: On to St. Albans for Gloves
* Bakersfield Californian: Quezada is a boxer with a dream
* Traverse City Record Eagle: Local boxers fail to qualify for natls.
* Grand Falls Tribune (Mont.): Former local boxer battles brain tumor
* Sporting Life: Derek Bilton rates his top ten - pound-for-pound
* UK: Now Thaxton hopes for April title fight
* Irish Examiner: Dunne mgr. considers next move after Trujillo demolition
* Philippines: No show Pacquaio says sorry
* South Africa: KZN boxer faces preliminary hearing
* Australia: Top boxers head for Gold Coast
* Uganda: Katumwa finally gets his ABU belt
* Barbados Daily Nation: Boxing floors them with six awards



February 10, 2003
* Pedro Fernandez: No fistic climax in HBO main event
* Tim Dahlberg: Mosley happy but fight doesn't settle DLH rematch
* USA Today: Mosley's ND with Marquez likely to affect deal with DLH
* Mark Whicker: Mosley just can't get ahead in the fight game
* Angel Rodriguez: Headstrong headhunters collide
* Fred De la Riva: Not yet ready for the chump change
* Fiona Manning: Mosley - "Let's NOT do it again"
* LVRJ: Mosley gets headache
* Mike Nosky: What will you be doing March 1st? You won't be watching Ruiz-Jones
* Joe Gergen: New York boxing - Down for the count
* LVRJ: Margarito shows he's a welterweight to take seriously
* Orange Co. Register: Lewis doesn't use his head
* Mike Nosky: Mitchell should be next for Tszyu
* Ron Borges: Breaking rules a #1 concern for IBF
* Miami Herald: Miccosukee's Feb.21 show first of six this year
* Fresno Bee: Corrales added to Tyson undercard in Memphis
* Monterey Co. Herald: Convincing decision rattles Celaya
* El Paso Times: Fighter stops lefty, wins class
* Hartford Courant:  Remillard Wins; Ayala Loses Close One
* Penn St. Digital Collegian: PSU boxers win two of five at Navy Inv'l.
* UK: Harrison has no sympathy for Williams
* London Daily Telegraph: Harrison taunts Williams
* SecondsOut: Harrison roadshow rolls on
* Mark Staniforth: Harrison has plenty to learn
* Sporting Life: Beaten Williams wants Audley fight
* Sporting Life: Harrison set to discuss new BBC deal
* Glasgow Herald: John Traynor fires a broadside at the Audley show
* Sporting Life: McKeever eyes European belt
* The Independent (UK): Ellcock driven by desire to put wilkd past behind him
* Neil Reid: Mundine fight gives boxing some punch






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