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Lennox Lewis is doing color commentary for HBO’s Boxing after Dark….let’s track his performance.

-Lennox officially referred to himself in the third person less than 5 minutes into the broadcast.

-Lennox states “You’ll find lots of basketball players that are good basketball players”, in reference to one of tonite’s pugilists once being good enough for a college basketball scholarship.

Sidebar - I sure do love Paul Masson Brandy. I see other blogs with PayPal donate buttons. I wonder if I can get a Paul masson donate button?

-Through a round and a half, Lennox has done a pretty decent job. Nothing that will be repeated in boxing philosophical texts, but nothing that makes him sound like he took one too many punches.

-Lennox messed up a bit in the third. Bringing up the list of one of the combatant’s favorite fighters, poor Lennox forgot the folks on the list, bringing up only my boy Pernell Whitaker.

Sidebar - I took my nipple ring out last week before my echocardiogram (oh yeah, had some heart issues, had to do a bunch of tests that will end up costing me 800 bucks probably just so they can tell me it’s all good) and decided not to put it back in. Hell, I’ll be 32 years old in a couple of months. What the hell am I doing with a ring and hole in my nipple?

-Lennox just said ‘This ain’t boxing, this is the sweet science right now.’ Uh, boxing is called the sweet science so can that statement possibly be right?

-Lennox has gotten mysteriously quiet. I think he got him a groupie…

Sidebar - There is a pimpin101.net site….I’ll let you take it from here.

Sidebar extended - Sadly, I found that pimpin101 site because of the pimpbook.com…yeah a pimpin manual….once again I’ll let you take it from here

-Lennox says with 1 minute left in round 11 of 12 ‘He needs a knockout, he’s basically got 6 minutes…..’ Er, that would be 4 minutes but who’s counting….

Sidebar - You remember back in the day when they had the squirt bottles in the corners? Now they got aquafina bottles…..

Sidebar -  Good first fight.  Quintana defeated Julio via unanimous decision. Quintana was the underdog though both fighters were undefeated.

Ok, Lennox is talking a lot less so I’ll end this post now…….

Wouldn’t it be more prudent to keep our (our being the U.S.) military capabilities and defense mechanisms a secret? What ever happened to not letting your enemy know what’s up your sleeve?

I’m sure the U.S. has other tactics that the media hasn’t storied up on but this reminds me of the warning to Iraq that we would attack in 48 hours. I find that sneak attacks always seem to work better. Like Pearl Harbor, for example. Do you think Pearl Harbor would have been as effective had the Japanese told us their plans?

Or remember, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming’? Remember how well prepared the colonists were now that they knew an attack was inevitable. The British were caught off guard because they didn’t know that we knew they were coming….

Now that North Korea knows at least part of our defensive gameplan, they can re-cooordinate their offensive……Not a great strategic call in my opinion…..

It’s definitely starting to get real now. Yesterday marked the 10 week point. Last Thursday, I heard my child’s heartbeat. Wooshka, wooshka, wooshka. 180 beats a minute!

Without my wife being noticeably pregnant, I don’t think it was real for us. But with pictures and sound, it is definitely becoming more of a reality. January 16th is our due date.

In the previews for Tyrese’s new action flick ‘Waist Deep’, Tyrese’s character’s son is kidnapped…..by folks in a convertible…..hmm….a car with no roof is used to keep someone captive……How the hell do you kidnap somebody with a convertible?  In the backseat no less???

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by another user of MySpace.com sued the social networking Web site Monday, claiming it does not take sufficient steps to protect underage members.

Welcome the newest addition to frivolous lawsuits. Apparently, this teen and her mother think the website is responsible for underage girls looking for love and passing out their phone numbers to folks they’ve never met on the internet. They claim that MySpace does not protect minors.

MySpace didn’t force this girl to pass on her number to a stranger. In fact, for a sexual assault to occur, this girl had to take initiative to either tell this sicko a) where she lived, or b) where to meet her. In no way, am I implying that this is her fault but….