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1. Yuri Foreman vs. Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium will help with boxing comeback
(Sports/Professional)

BY JOE FAVORITO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ON N.J. SPORTS MARKETING For almost a decade much has been made about the demise of boxing on the professional level. The rise of the UFC, the lack of free ...

2. On Saturday night, Yankee Stadium again is a boxing capital
(Sports/Professional)

... across the street on September 28, 1976. Once again, Yankee Stadium will be a boxing world capital, restored to its former pugilistic glory. Major boxing matches are always a time of nostalgia and memories ...

3. Actor Jon Seda felt special connection to World War II hero John Basilone, in HBO’s ‘The Pacific’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... boxers, and Seda went to the gym with them one day, and fell in love with boxing. "I started boxing in Lou Costello's gym in Paterson, N.J.," he said. "I ended up at Bufano's Gym in Jersey City. Dominick ...

4. Preakness and Belmont Stakes futures in doubt
(Sports/Professional)

... favorite sports were baseball, boxing and horse racing. Six decades later, baseball is still extremely popular but it is no longer the lone "superstar" sport and trails football in popularity according ...

5. When the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson made history in New Jersey
(Sports/Professional)

... League affiliate of the New York Giants, the stadium later saw its most common use be for high school football. There were also boxing matches, music concerts and recreational events staged there. But ...

6. Movie review: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ with Gerard Butler, America Fererra and Craig Ferguson
(Entertainment/Movies)

... can live together in harmony. Jay Baruchel, whose film roles range from the boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby" to the outrageous comedy "Tropic Thunder," heads the voice cast as Hiccup. "The point ...

7. When the Nets left New Jersey the first time
(Sports/Professional)

... professional tennis, midget auto racing and amateur boxing. It opened with a dog show. Midget-car rallies were held there. Chubby Checker and Mitch Miller sang there. And a host of political candidates, ...

8. 35 years after facing Muhammad Ali, 'Bayonne Bleeder' Chuck Wepner still pulls no punches
(Sports/Professional)

... boxing career had just about leveled out," Wepner recalled last month at a "Gallo's Geezers" event at Gallagher's Steak House in New York with Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo and Rocky star ...

9. Todd Bridges of ‘Diff'rent Strokes’ shares his pain and story of drug addiction
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  NJNR: You did some boxing, too, any chance of doing that again? Bridges: "No. But I did kick Vanilla Ice's ass." (Laughing) NJNR: How did you come with the idea for the new book? Bridges: "The ...

10. Willie Mays, The Life, The Legend: Book honors most complete baseball player ever to play the game
(Sports/Professional)

... league baseball and it had no serious challengers. Professional football and basketball were having growth spurts, boxing had its serious backers, but all remained distant contenders to the throne. Hockey, ...

11. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man' falls short of its full potential
(Entertainment/Movies)

... interest in what should have been powerful theater. We begin and end in Lewiston, Maine in 1965, the site and time of the rematch of a boxing bout between Sonny Liston and the man who took the heavyweight ...

12. ESPN Radio's Brandon Tierney starts his college radio tour in New Jersey
(Sports/Professional)

... career as a boxing match, and anyone who truly knows me, knows: if you knock me down, I will always get up; I can look in someone's eyes and gauge just how much they want it, and if I spot the "look," ...

13. Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe being held accountable for condoning ‘sexual terror’
(World/International)

... with the U.N., and particularly with the P5, is admittedly difficult. "But the U.N. is boxing itself into a corner," he added, pointing out that one cannot "continue to pass resolution after resolution ...

14. New play about Muhammad Ali, Stepin Fetchit starts Jan. 15 at McCarter Theatre
(Entertainment/Movies)

... one of the most controversial fights in boxing history (the second Ali-Sonny Liston bout), 23-year-old heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali formed an improbable bond with former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. ...

15. Hula hoop making a comeback
(Life/Style)

... kickboxing routines. "The more you get the moves down, the more sexy you can feel about it. It's really a good conversation starter too, like people just see it and smile," Lewis said. Graphite hoops ...

16. Does New Jersey really want official weigh-ins for politicians?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... like in boxing? (I think we're gonna need a bigger scale.) If Christie is too chubby to govern, voters will see that for themselves. They don't need TV ads or well-paid strategists to help them weigh ...

17. At 87, New Jersey's Lou Duva still working his magic
(Sports/Professional)

Hall-of-Fame boxing trainer's latest pupil is 6-7, 260-pound Chinese Olympian BY JERRY MILANI NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM He has trained a "who's who" of the boxing world, including names like Evander ...

18. VIDEO: N.J. native Nick Jonas urges Congress to fund research for juvenile diabetes
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  The 16-year-old Jonas Brother joined Mary Tyler Moore, boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard and National Institute of Diabetes director Dr. Griffin Rodgers in testifying before the Senate Homeland Security ...

19. Clara Maass raises $230G to benefit medical center
(N.J./State)

... 10th. Making personal appearances at the golf outing will be two-time Super Bowl champion Pepper Johnson, former three-time world champion boxer Iran Barkley, former heavyweight boxing contender Gerry ...

20. Ancient Greek wisdom inspires guidelines to good life
(Life/Style)

... thread that runs through the entire book. Soupios says it's based on Plato's observation that the unexamined life is not worth living. "The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, ...