Well, I think that may have a lot to do with baseball being a non-contact sport (ostensibly).
That's very possible. The catch with boxing/fighting is that the whole point of the sport is to knock your opponent senseless. Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
You've been reading old press from the NHL, haven't you?
(X-post in Bitches) From the NY trial courts:
Two days after George W. Bush renewed his call for a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a court in New York has just ruled that gay men and lesbians in that state must be granted the right to marry.
Links to the press release, decision here.
In non-boxing news, NY rules for gay marriage.
The boxers I know -- admittedly, mostly amateurs -- are all fine folk. (It's the promoters who are sleaze.) (And Tyson. But that's a Tyson issue.)
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Not just you, and quite distinct from shrinkage.
The decision is 75+ pages, but very read-able.
Copycats.
Now, now. Technically San Fran was first, even if it didn't last.