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Rick Farris wrote:

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:
I hope you feel better. Frank.

Thanks Rick. I'm stay in bed all day....

Frank, when you feel up to it check out the replay of last night's KO! You'll love it!
I'm sorry you missed it. Martinez had a big target, and when he hit the bulls eye, Williams fell like a dead man.

I seen the fight earlier today on HBO re-play, it was a great ko alright....

Jets-Texans . . .

It's around half-time and the Jets are ahead 10-7.
It's not on TV in Los Angeles.

Jets - 23
Texans - 17

9 min. remaining

Rick Farris wrote:Jets - 23
Texans - 17

9 mins remaining

Hope they win....

kikibalt wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:Jets - 23
Texans - 17

9 mins remaining

Hope they win....

Me too. You know, they've won in overtime in the last two games.
That's an NFL record. However, I like it better when they win within four quarters.
I must say this, nobody can say that the N.Y. Jets aren't an exciting team.
They don't fold when the going gets tough.
I hope they can take it to the Super Bowl. They just might, who knows?

Jets - 23
Texans - 24

Two min. left!
This is when the Jets come aive. Let's see if they can do it again this week?

Sanchez intercepted!!!

Texans - 27
Jets - 23

1:42 remaining. Now they need a touchdown to win.
This is when the Jets come alive!

Rick Farris wrote:Sanchez intercepted!!!

Texans - 27
Jets - 23

1:42 remaining. Now they need a touchdown to win.
This is when the Jets come alive!

Damn!!!...

Jets score. Sanchez passes for touchdown!!

Amazing. Charlie, this is a great team to follow. However, they never let you take anything for granted.
They're now 8-2, or will be in seconds when the game ends.

Final score . . .

Jets - 30
Texans - 27

The N.Y. Jets
(It seems Sanchez made up for the interception. )

Rick Farris wrote:Final score . . .

Jets - 30
Texans - 27

The N.Y. Jets

Damn!!!!!!!!...They did it AGAIN!!!!!!!!....

Don Fraser . . .


On January 28, 1927, professional boxing was alive and well in the State of California.

Up north, Frankie Klick decisioned California Joe Lynch at San Francisco's Dreamland Rink.
Down south, Jack Sparr (father of future Hall of Famer, Jackie McCoy), whipped Nick Antonio over ten rounds at the San Diego Coliseum.
At the legendary Hollywood Legion Stadium, L.A. fans saw Filippino ace, Young Nationalista, defeat Georgie Rivers in the main event.

As far as classic American West Coast boxing history is concerned, the most important event to occur on that date took place not in San Francisco, San Diego or Hollywood. It happened in a small town along the Colorado River, on the Cali-Arizona borderline . . . Blythe, California.

On this day in Blythe, West Coast boxing legend Don Fraser was born.

As Young Nationalista and Georgie Rivers caught their breath between rounds of their war at the Legion, a couple hours east of the Hollywood landmark, Don Fraser took his first breath. Two dozen dozen years later, Fraser would take over the position of Public Relations Director for the Hollywood Legion Stadium.

It was the sunset of a golden era in boxing, and the dawning of a new one.
Fraser was at the center of it all, and would be responsible for much went on during his decades long involvment in the world of boxing.

The name Don Fraser was one that I came to know in the summer of 1965, when I attended my first boxing event at the Olympic Auditorium.
At the time, Fraser was in charge of PR for the Olympic and also California correspondent for The Ring Magazine.

I was thirteen at the time, just starting my junior amateur boxing career, and obsessed with the sport.
Anything I could read about boxing I would, and each month I'd read The Ring.
It was here, on Don Fraser's page- "In Sunny California", I'd learn what had taken place in boxing thruout the Golden State each month.

Reading "The Ring" and event programs from Olympic Boxing Club promotions introduced me to Don Fraser's writing.
A few years later, in early 1971, I was a 19-year-old featherweight and would meet Don personally, as I fought prelims on several of Fraser's Forum Boxing Club promotions.


(More to be revealed )

47 Years Ago . . .

I was 11-years-old, a sixth grader in Garden Grove, California.
On November 22, 1963, my Pop Warner Football team had a late afternoon game scheduled.
The game would be canceled. Somebody shot & killed the President of the United States that day.
He was a young President, good looking, a lady's man to the fullest. Dead.

For four days, the three major TV networks, and all the local stations, as well, broadcast only info on the assasination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The nation ceased to function until the President was laid to rest.
Next up: Viet Nam.

Rick Farris wrote:47 Years Ago . . .

I was 11-years-old, a sixth grader in Garden Grove, California.
On November 22, 1963, my Pop Warner Football team had a late afternoon game scheduled.
The game would be canceled. Somebody shot & killed the President of the United States that day.
He was a young President, good looking, a lady's man to the fullest. Dead.

For four days, the three major TV networks, and all the local stations, as well, broadcast only info on the assasination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The nation ceased to function until the President was laid to rest.
Next up: Viet Nam.

Rick, I remember that day well. It's etched in my mind. I was 9 years old at the time. I can't remember why but I was home from school that day and my mother and I had to drive to L.A. to my father's job. I was watching television when it all unfolded. I ran to tell my mother who was in the bathroom putting on her make up and getting ready. I knocked on the door and told her what had happened, She got mad at me . She thought I was making it up.

I went back to watching TV but all the channels were talking about John F. Kennedy. So I went back and told my mother. Again she tells me to "knock it off". A few minutes later she comes out and when she saw for herself what had happened she began sobbing. I was only 8 but I knew it was serious business. The drive to my father's job was surreal. You could feel the tragedy in the air.

A few days later we saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The world would never be quite the same again. The 1960's were now in full swing.

Randyman wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:47 Years Ago . . .

I was 11-years-old, a sixth grader in Garden Grove, California.
On November 22, 1963, my Pop Warner Football team had a late afternoon game scheduled.
The game would be canceled. Somebody shot & killed the President of the United States that day.
He was a young President, good looking, a lady's man to the fullest. Dead.

For four days, the three major TV networks, and all the local stations, as well, broadcast only info on the assasination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The nation ceased to function until the President was laid to rest.
Next up: Viet Nam.

Rick, I remember that day well. It's etched in my mind. I was 9 years old at the time. I can't remember why but I was home from school that day and my mother and I had to drive to L.A. to my father's job. I was watching television when it all unfolded. I ran to tell my mother who was in the bathroom putting on her make up and getting ready. I knocked on the door and told her what had happened, She got mad at me . She thought I was making it up.

I went back to watching TV but all the channels were talking about John F. Kennedy. So I went back and told my mother. Again she tells me to "knock it off". A few minutes later she comes out and when she saw for herself what had happened she began sobbing. I was only 8 but I knew it was serious business. The drive to my father's job was surreal. You could feel the tragedy in the air.

A few days later we saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The world would never be quite the same again. The 1960's were now in full swing.

We also saw Ruby shoot Oswald, Randy. As you said, it was so surreal.
We were kids, but we knew who Kennedy was, and what bomb shelters were, and that we didn't like Russia, or Castro.
We were learning about space travel. Guys named Alan Sheppard and John Glenn were heros.
Nixon would eventually run for Governor in California but lose to Jerry Brown's father.
Hippies hadn't yet surfaced in main stream population. But they were coming!

A few days later we saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The world would never be quite the same again. The 1960's were now in full swing.

-Randy
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Randy, that is so true, historically. Journalist Peter Hamill reflects that the 60's didn't really begin until after the Kennedy assasination. I agree.

I'm excited about Sergio Martinez' 2nd round knockout of Paul Williams. It was a big victory for boxing and boxing fans too. I believe there is one other loser in this fight, maybe two, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. has the most to lose. Why? Because now there is another option and he doesn't really fit into the picture.

After Manny Pacquiao's victory over Antonio Margarito and Martinez' knockout of Williams, who wants to pay big money to see a loudmouth runner. I'm betting more boxing fans will be clamoring for a Pacquiao-Martinez fight than a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. It's the more attractive fight of the two. If Mayweather had doubts about fighting Pacquiao, you can be damned sure he will never go anywhere near Martinez. To be honest I wouldn't want to see Manny fight Martinez. It would be asking too much.

Even if Maweather now opts to fight Pacquiao, it now seems like a smaller fight. In the long run, Mayweather screwed himself out of the biggest paycheck of his life. It breaks my heart. Yeah, right!

A great song from the '60's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvYx7XyBws

The Young Bloods...Get Together

Rick Farris wrote:A few days later we saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The world would never be quite the same again. The 1960's were now in full swing.

-Randy
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Randy, that is so true, historically. Journalist Peter Hamill reflects that the 60's didn't really begin until after the Kennedy assasination. I agree.

John F. Kennedy was and is my all time favorite president. Over the years his reputation has taken a hit but I still see him with young eyes.

My father was from the era that preceded the hippie movement. He didn't understand it but he was amused by it, to a degree. On a lazy weekend when all our yard work was done and we had some free time he would ask my mother and I if we wanted to drive over to Hollywood to watch the hippies. For him, it was kind of like going to the the zoo. "Hey, look! Theres one over there!". When it came to long hair my father was almost as bad as Mel.

Hippies hadn't yet surfaced in main stream population. But they were coming!
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And so were The Beatles!

Randyman wrote:

Rick Farris wrote:A few days later we saw Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The world would never be quite the same again. The 1960's were now in full swing.

-Randy
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Randy, that is so true, historically. Journalist Peter Hamill reflects that the 60's didn't really begin until after the Kennedy assasination. I agree.

John F. Kennedy was and is my all time favorite president. Over the years his reputation has taken a hit but I still see him with young eyes.

My father was from the era that preceded the hippie movement. He didn't understand it but he was amused by it, to a degree. On a lazy weekend when all out yard work was done and we had some free time he would ask my mother and I if we wanted to drive over to Hollywood to watch the hippies. For him, it was kind of like going to the the zoo. "Hey, look! Theres one over there!". When it came to long hair my father was almost as bad as Mel.

I understand, believe me! And JFK is my all-time favorite, as well.

kikibalt wrote:A great song from the '60's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvYx7XyBws

The Young Bloods...Get Together

Man, this is putting me in a 60's mood. I'm feeling really mod right now!

Mel on Music & Manson . . .

"That Fu_king Ed Sullivan ruined the country! He brought those God damn Beatles over here. Those dirty, unwashed bastids walk around barefoot and carry diseases in their filthy bodies. They got lice and vermin in that hair. Who do you think that Charles Manson listened to? Look what it did to him!"

-Mel Epstein, 1971.

Randyman wrote:

kikibalt wrote:A great song from the '60's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvYx7XyBws

The Young Bloods...Get Together

Man, this is putting me in a 60's mood. I'm feeling really mod right now!

"C'mon people now, smile on your brother . . . "

Hippies and all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTe7jhjnc0
Scott McKenzie...San Francisco