2012 in review: By Morgan Campbell, By The Numbers
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 23,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
Manny Pacquiao falls, questions arise
With a single, thunderous right hand at the end of round six Juan Manuel Marquez sent the legend of Manny Pacquiao crashing face-first to the canvas. With his nose broken and his left leg seemingly injured, Marquez delivered a knockout so definitive referee Kenny Bayless didn’t even bother to count. And with the entire boxing … Read more
Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez’ mountain of muscle
Friday afternoon Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez stepped on the scale in Las Vegas, bringing us a step closer to (what we hope is) the final chapter in their career-defining series, and tying together several compelling storylines that have developed in the eight years since they first fought. Can Marquez ever get a fair … Read more
Building Brand Bautista and addressing “the question”
Heading to the office Monday morning I noticed a poster of José Bautista on a wall inside the Cooksville GO station. In it he’s pitching Booster Juice, which is a sort of Smoothie King of the north — 300 outlets nationwide peddling fruit smoothies and a healthy lifestyle. Besides being impressed at the poster’s linguistic … Read more
ABDB Ep 9: We Fight on That Lie!
Back at Pimper’s Paradise AKA Duane’s crib…Shoutouts to the global ABDB fam… Derrick Rose tries to tiptoe around the steroid issue — fails… Jose Bautista still raking and we still “gotta ask the question”…or do we?… Lance Armstrong = Slim Charles, cuz he will FIGHT on that lie!… Lance Armstrong = Ben Johnson, the … Read more
LaShawn Merritt: the doping game keeps changing
When reports surfaced last year that 2008 Olympic 400-metre champion LaShawn Merritt flunked a drug test over his use of the over-the-counter sex enhancer Extenze, how else were we supposed to react except with a flood of junior high school jokes? Like Merritt took Extenze so he could run longer and harder than everybody else. … Read more
Oct. 12, 2010: Bautista’s certain big payday also brings big pressures
Morgan Campbell Sports Reporter As training camps opened for Dominican league baseball teams last week, Santo Domingo newspaper La Nacion Dominicana trumpeted a major development for that island’s equivalent of the New York Yankees. “Tigres del Licey receive backing,” read the headline on a story that detailed a local businessman’s seven-figure sponsorship deal with the 22-time … Read more
Nov. 18, 2008: CFL slow to establish drug policy
Nov. 18, 2008 MORGAN CAMPBELL SPORTS REPORTER On May 26, 1995, Allen Pitts pulled up to the border at Sweetgrass, Mont., to cross into Canada and follow up on the most successful season ever by a CFL receiver. Teaming with league MVP Doug Flutie, Pitts caught 126 passes for 2,036 yards and 21 touchdowns in … Read more
March 2005: Steroid Users Only See the Big Picture
Steroid Surge: It’s not just pros more ‘average guys’ shoot up; Statistics reveal troubling trend: Ignore risks for bulging muscles. “I don’t think we know the scope.” 26 March 2005 - Toronto Star By Morgan Campbell Remy poked a needle into the vial of testosterone enanthate and drew out 300 milligrams. Then he did the same … Read more
