Sunday, June 12, 2005

Good stuff from an interesting weekend.

Afleet Belmont

Afleet Alex won the Belmont. The New York Times, Bob Ford and Jerry Izenberg have reports.

I thought Michael Wilbon's column captured Tyson well.

Woj on Tyson and the state of boxing.

Whitlock writes about the growing stardom of Manu Ginobili.
The column includes this statement:
"But the NBA, just like the NFL, Major League Baseball and the NHL, has never developed an overseas-born, foreign-trained player into a stateside, TV-ratings-driving, commercial endorsement superstar."
He's wrong. Maybe the NFL or NHL hasn't, but Sammy Sosa most definitely fit this description. You could argue for Pedro Martinez and others.

I don't know if any other athlete that played here became a Bostonian more than Cam Neely. Jackie MacMullen has a nice piece on him being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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