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Showtime's Sat Boxing Card was pretty-good.  It was headed by Mikey Garcia (38-0) vs. Robert Easter (21-0) (an "0" had to go), with Mikey winning an uncontested-decision.  Robert's jab was real-good (both fighters Orthodox), but he never threw any right-hands, for him to win he would had to bore Mikey until he fell-asleep.  If there's a rematch, Robert is going to have to jab and then throw some rights, which would open-him up to Mikey's counter-right, but this is an expected-chance he'd have to take, get-off and get-out before Mikey made him pay, it was a pretty-good fight.  The Undercard was good, I've seen Luis Ortiz fight.  The fight that everybody wants is Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KO's) vs. Anthony Joseph (21-0, 20 KO's), but it's expected that Deontay, I've seen him fight, will next fight Tyson Fury in Dec.  Luke Fury was inactive for 2 and a half years, only recently making a comeback after battling drugs and mental-illness, in his condition, he should fight no-more, he's washed-up, the Public is eager for Wilder vs. Joseph                                            

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I just had on Kathy Mattea's moving "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses".  Congrats to Jack Morris, it was way-overdue, 175 Complete Games, those farmboys built-up some-stamina.  The Republicans have given 15 mil recently to Maxine Waters' Campaign Fund.  The Dems will run Cory Booker for President in 2020, hoping the Wanting will support-him as they did Obama, but Obama was much-slicker (real-good Speaker, friendly, relaxed, sort of unique) and McCain-Palin was a really-weak Ticket (I voted Libertarian, I want you to know)                            

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Due to the bad Internet Current at the Las Vegas Public Libraries, I went to T-Mobile, which I have for my Smartphone, and was told they don't do it for laptops.  So, I spoke to somebody yet again at the Flamingo Library, and they seemed to think that it would improve, it hasn't (it used to be good).  On my previous Blog, instead of "Rock and Roll", it repeated the "Rock", I could tell something had happened, but if I proofread, then the entire Blog might get wiped-out, so I just hoped for the best.  This Public Library Internet Current for which the Taxpayers' money is used, is as broken-down as Maryland Pkwy                                                         

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Recently, I was in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for the 3rd time, and how many of you have been there, none, (you're a live-wire).  On beautiful Lake Erie, next to Browns Stadium, in beautiful down-town Cleveland, just, walk up E. 9th a bit to Indians Stadium, which is next to Cavs Arena, Cleveland Rocks.  Bill Freed, a Cleveland disk-jockey popularized the phrase "Rock and Rock", in the early 50's, and it was Cleveland to have the first big Rock and Roll Concert.  When bids were taken for the R and R H of Fame, it was Cleveland who most wanted-it, pledging 65 mil in 1986, and winning-out over bitterly disappointed suitors such as Memphis and New York.  The architect was I.M. Pei (you know, the Louvre, guy liked pyramids), and it was Dedicated and Opened on Sept. 1, 1995.   On the outside   Long Live Rock      The Colored Folks been singing and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know...  ...They played it like that in the shanties and the juke joints, and nobody paid it no mind until I goosed it up  -Elvis                                        

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Recently, I got a ton of Hits, from Spain, everybody leeches me

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Congrats to France, with Paul Pogba playing so-well, last year I saw Manchester United play Crystal Palace at Old Trafford, winning 2-0, with Paul scoring a goal.  I saw a day of the NBA Summer League, with 8 games, 4 in the Thomas & Mack, 4 in Cox, staggered-times, and just going across the hall, one can, I did, see more or less, a half of 16 teams.  The Cox, seating 5 thou, is the real-treat, you can cadge a seat down-low, you're on top of them., it's great. Saw Donte DiVincenzo from Villanova, for the Bucks, in the NCAA Championship Game, he played like a man-possessed (blocked a shot with 2 hands).  In the "Encyclopedia of Pro Basketball Players", you'll find Ed's Old Man, Bob Preusse.  Why he's in there is beyond-me, he starred for Akron U, and played 2 years for the Goodyear Wingfoots, and this last was the highest-rung in Basketball at that time, him playing pro-ball, I've never heard.  And it wasn't much of a career, at least he scored a basket, ha, at Goodyear he maybe 6th Man, and started at times.  And he, unlike most of the Goodyears, had a job where he actually had to produce, as a mechanical-engineer, probably why he only played 2 years for them, as they traveled-far on the train, this took him away from his bread and butter.  Also, he was a Reserve Army Officer, Akron U., like many Universities at that time, made Reserve Officers Training Corps, compulsory for able-bodied Students, and this was a good part-time job.  During the Great Depression, guys were eager for remunerative-activity, and my Father had his, how he wound-up playing 3 games, sitting-on-the-bench, for some pro team, is a mystery, for sure, he never mentioned it.  Donte is listed as bigger than my Father (they shorted him an inch), at 205 lbs. to 195 lbs., no, ha, in those days they didn't lift weights, in modern-times he would have been 230, maybe 240, he was a really-big man, and his movements were graceful.  Some of you women are thinking, I bet that was something good, you shouldn't                                                     

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They allowed that guy to buzz our President, the Europeans are weak-minded, probably because their ancestors were bombed.  It never stops to amaze me the hunger for the current hot toy, now, Build-A-Bear, that promotion had all those women, who couldn't afford one, standing in line, as they thought they'd get one cheaply, and learning they wouldn't be getting one.  A woman chanted  ...We want Bears   Ohh  I was recently at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, which adjoins Riverside, Ohio, a Dayton suburb.  I took the city-bus to get there (I try to travel like the people), but was misinformed of where to stand to go back.  I was standing in the rain for a long-time when a Riverside Police Car, pulled-over, and I was asked my situation.  Officer Michael Sullivan, a 13-year veteran, then gave me a long-ride (if you go to Ireland, they laugh, as they know that the Irish in America have the reputation of being policemen) to the bus depot.  I asked Officer Mike the local-situation, and he said that they have a heroin-problem, Dayton, like Akron, has seen better days.  All interaction that I've ever had with the Police, has gone well, and I'm grateful that they Protect and Serve, if you want, you may email Officer Mike, and tell him that Ed was thinking of him  msullivan@riversideoh.gov                                                 

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I got a ton more Hits when my Blog was inactive than when I was doing-it.  Maybe I should cease-it entirely (you Swine stagger-about, falling-down).  I'm back at the 24 Hour SuperSport at 5035 W. Tropicana, 89103, in Las Vegas, where drug-dealing is carried-out in the open, in full-view of the management.  It's pretty-good physically, and just a mile from where I live, ha, but I could do without this other.  Kermit Washington (born Sept. 17, 1951), was just sentenced to 6 years in prison for a Charity Fraud which supposed to be sending money to children in Africa.  Kermit played 10 NBA Seasons, 6'8" and powerful, he was a valued-forward.  On Dec. 9, 1977, his team, the LA Lakers, played the Houston Rockets.  This was an era in which NBA Basketball was trying to model-itself on pro hockey, with a lot of players fighting, it was a constant (?), with SI having an article "The Enforcers", featuring players who were prominent in this, it was sort-of gloried (?)  I can remember some guy showering the esteemed Jerry Lucas with punches, Lucas afterward standing-there indignant.  Many of the players acted like Trash. During a fracas involving the Lakers and Rockets, the Rockets' All Star Forward, Rudy Tomjanovich, came rushing-in from the side to break it up, with Kermit Washington sucker-punching him, the momentum of Rudy's rushing-in and the powerful Kermit's punch, left Tomjanovich lying on the Court in a pool of blood.  Rudy almost died, he eventually made a comeback, but was never regained his previous-prowess.  Washington was suspended for the rest of the Season, he became a pariah, the doctor who had been giving his wife pre-care, refused to deliver Kermit's baby.  The NBA reformed, with big-punishments for fighting, and you saw little of it.  It's never too late for positive-change (You Swine), and we hope that Kermit, even at advanced-age, amends       

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My brother, Bob (recently broke-up with a girlfriend, interested women should get in contact with him), knows Rep. Jim Jordan from Wrestling, and says that his character is of the highest.  A great college-wrestler who twice defeated the fabled (2-time Olympic Gold Medal Winner, who I saw wrestle), John Smith, Jim was an Assistant Coach at Ohio State, from 1986 to 1994.  So far as all these allegations against Dr. Richard Strauss, long-time physician for Ohio State Athletics, this guy, if still alive, would be "80" , apparently he killed himself in 2005.  This is ancient history, back in the 80's and 90's, what is taken so seriously today, wasn't.  When I was "18" and a College Freshman, I was a grown-man, nobody has groped me or attempted to date, I think these guys who say that Dr. Strauss groped-them are "funny" and this is why this happened.  One of Jim's accusers is former-wrestler, Dunyasha Yetts, who has been in prison for bilking people out of 2 mil, he should look in the mirror before casting aspersions on others.  When I was at Ohio State, on the main drag, the appropriately named "High Street", was "Moe Glassman's", and he had some really fine clothes, I still have 2 "Pringle of Scotland" sweaters I bought when I  "19".  Not Moe himself, but the guys who worked there, were Gay, and they seemed like sharp guys, who could get a better job, but worked there due to the male clientele.  And in the dressing room were photos of young guys in poses.  Now, nobody took this seriously, and guys made jokes about it, nobody was deeply-offended, as these complainants seem to be.  And Jim Jordan was just an Assistant Coach, his function was to assist the Head Wrestling Coach, he hadn't the power to make decisions.  Due to this unjust fomentation against a good man, Jim Jordan will not be the next Speaker of the House, I hope you're happy

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Trump was a 6-1 underdog just before the election, in his first year and a half he gets to name 2 Supreme Court Justices, born lucky, Lucky Don.  The Ultra-Left has been harassing people while they're trying to eat, sending women rushing out of a restaurant in near-tears, they're coarse, at best.   A couple days recently, I was in Paulie Ayala's Gym, on W. Camp Bowie, in Fort Worth, Paulie having been "The Ring's"  "Fighter of the Year" for 1999.  Paulie (born April 22, 1970) competed from 118 to 126 lbs. from 1992 to 2004, in the 80's and 90's, Fort Worth was a hotbed of boxing, producing Paulie, Gene Hatcher, Donald Curry and Robin Blake, saw the last 2 fight.  Paulie was 38-3 with 12 KO's, not a heavy-puncher, he'd slice 'em up, he won a decision over Johnny Tapia for the WBA Bantamweight Title at Mandalay Bay on June 26, 1999, this was "The Ring's" "Fight of the Year." He twice fought Clarence "Bones" Adams, a White Guy from Kentucky, winning by decision both times, Paulie showed me a picture of him and Bones after the 2nd Fight, and asked me if I could tell who won, there was a trench .next to Bones' left-eye, that'd be plastic surgery ...Oh, you did, Paulie...   Paulie retired with all his faculties, he's well-spoken, relatively unmarked  (See My Blog for Sept. 17, 2013).  I haven't gotten around to T-Mobile.  Paulie's Gym is real-bright and very upbeat, unlike those grim old-time boxing gyms (Johnny Tocco had a gym in Las Vegas, he was asked who his favorite boxers were, he named some, he was asked who he liked the least  ...Oh, that's easy, Tex Cobb, if you were taping his hands he'd think nothing of belching or ..), a lot of white-collar people go there, and you can progress as little or as much as you want, if you just want to work the bags, that's good, but if you're capable you can do very hard-sparring, Paulie has some good prospects.  Women are allowed and evident.  Paulie told me that he started fighting when he was "4", he said  ...I loved to fight...   Paulie invested his earnings well, and was able to send his children, a boy and a girl, to expensive schools, neither competed in boxing, his son is an electrical-engineer.  I really enjoyed Paulie's Gym,  a friendly atmosphere, you can watch and ask questions to your heart's content,  Paulie is a very-fine man               

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I like to do my Blog at the various Public Libraries in Las Vegas, and San Diego, but their Internet Current, for both, is no-good, I have things wiped-out, add-ons, run-together,  this is what the Taxpayers at both locales are getting for their-money, I can't put-up with it any more,  I have T-LMobile for my SmartPhone, I'll have to get-it for my Laptop (happened just now, as you can see).  The employees of both are anuses   

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The most famous scene in Movie History, is the baptismal-scene in "The Godfather" ...Do you renounce the Devil?  ...I do (Alex Rocco as Moe Greene, was one of the most memorable of short-parts ...I'm  ...Moe  ...Greene.  The baptismal-scene was shot at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and I went there in May, stood right where it was shot.  Tho all of you watch movies, none of you have been there, despite many of you living close. You're not inquisitive, which is why you don't learn. anything.   During my jaunt around the Country, I saw 8 Major League Games (also saw the Padres play after I got back), I saw Kluber, Darvish, Syndergaard.  Both times I saw the Rangers play, they won, saw 'em beat the Astros (Matt Bush pitched a scoreless inning) in Houston, and the Yankees in Arlington (nice Park, payed-off after 8 years).  While there, I made a friend, Doug, who has a real-good job with a Chemical Co., he sees 30 games a year. It was 5 hot dogs for $5 nite, good dogs, too, I got my quota and Doug, admiring this, went and got his, with mustard, I believe (Baseball is relaxing, soothing, during the Game, Doug received notice where he had to be in Houston, the next day, this isn't), you people don't like Baseball, you don't like to eat food