boxing

The owner of a New Bedford gym and former Pop Warner Football coach pleading guilty to supplying heroin to area drug dealers has formally entered a plea agreement. According to The Standard Times, Sharik Mendes entered the agreement in U...

The sports drama film CREED is, by far, the best Rocky saga since the real McCoy, that stays true to it's franchise, and yet packs a surprise punch that's genuine and very effective! This movie is everything you could ever have wanted and so much more...

One of the very first charges taken on by the South Coast Business Alliance was a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of New Bedford. In 2007, the group saw an opportunity to contribute to a cause that would provide more than just an activity to the youth of New Bedford...

Felice Leeds, director of the upcoming documentary Unforgotten: The Story of Paul Pender, joined me to discuss the film and the life story of her first cousin once removed, former middleweight boxing champion Paul Pender. Pender--a Massachusetts native--beat Sugar Ray Robinson twice and was part of the "Golden Era" of boxing in the 1950s, yet has become widely forgotten in the boxing wor

Former professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is dead at the age of 76.  Carter spent nearly two decades in prison for murder, but was then released when it was determined that he didn't get a fair trial.  Carter was made famous by the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the 1999 movie of the same name that starred Denzel Washington...