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Cotto vs Clottey Live Boxing Blog

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Welcome to MG SPORTS TALK’s live blog during the Miguel Cotto vs. Joshua Clottey WBO welterweight title fight from Madison Square Garden. The fight will be televised on HBO at 10:30pm EST/7:30 pm PST.
Join in the forum and leave your comments and score by clicking…
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Cotto vs

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Cotto fight

Saturday, June 13 - 10pm EST/7pm PST
Join us this Saturday night on www.mgsportstalk for round by round live coverage of the Cotto vs Clottey fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Its our live boxing blog. We will bring you all the action in a live forum where you can join in [...]

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Boxing: Hatton-Pacquiao Preview…and more

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Here’s the latest from the world of boxing…
 
WRIGHT-WILLIAMS review:
On April 18th, Ronald “Winky” Wright came back to the ring for the first time since dropping a decision to Bernard Hopkins back in 2007. His choice of comeback opponent was none other than the self-proclaimed most feared man in all of boxing, Paul “The Punisher” Williams. [...]

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Puerto Rican welterweight superstar Miguel Angel Cotto and Youngstown, Ohio’s middleweight champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik both erased memories of losing their most recent fights by recording TKO victories this past Saturday night in a unique, two-site Pay Per view event.

Cotto defeated the UK’s Michael Jennings via 5th Round TKO at Madison Square Garden to [...]

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Super Bowl XLIII Predictions

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

        
Before the 2008 NFL season, everybody had Pittsburgh and Arizona picked to go to the Super Bowl, right? Stop lying to yourself. 
See, this is what sets the National Football League apart from other professional leagues (Pirates fans, you know what Im talking about). Every year each team must start from scratch (WHO DEY in 2009!) and earn [...]

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Mosley vs. Margarito Fight Preview

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Los Angeles - LA’s Staples Center on Saturday, January 24 will be the setting for a WBA welterweight title fight between “Sugar” Shane Mosley(45-5, 38 KOs) and Antonio “The Tijuana Tornado” Margarito        (37-5, 27 KOs).
Gerame’s take: Both fighters are in the back end of their storied careers and a win would solidify their position in the boxing [...]

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NFL Expert Picks: AFC and NFC Championship

Friday, January 16th, 2009

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And then there were 4…
See how you match up against the MG Staff expert picks for this weekend’s AFC and NFC Championship games. Leave your picks (against the spread) on the COMMENT board. Check back on Monday for final results.

Here is the Vegas Line for both games:
Philadelphia @ Arizona +4
Baltimore @ Pittsburgh -6
MG STAFF PICKS
Moneyball: [...]

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NFL Playoffs Expert Picks

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

 
Here are the MG Sports Talk staff’s expert picks for this weekend’s NFL playoff games. Think you know more than we do? Leave your picks on the comment board. Results will be posted Monday morning.
Moneyball Matt: Tennesse, Carolina, Philadelphia, (too nervous to pick)
G $: Baltimore, Carolina, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
Cov: Baltimore, Arizona, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
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Colts vs. Jaguars Vegas Line

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Here’s the MG Line for tonight’s NFL Network Thursday night AFC South matchup in Jacksonville:
Indianapolis Colts vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Vegas line: Indianapolis -6, Over/Under 44
Gerame’s pick: Indianapolis 28 Jaguars 16 
Matt’s pick:  Indianapolis 35 Jaguars 21
Cov’s pick: Indianapolis 27 - Jaguars 10
 Leave your picks on the comment board. Results will be posted tomorrow…

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Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao dominated Oscar De La Hoya to the point of submission after 8 rounds of boxing at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Friday Night in Las Vegas. It truly was an embarrassing defeat for DLH. There is no point in me rehashing the details of the fight. DE LA HOYA GOT HIS ASS HANDED TO [...]

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De La Hoya vs Pacquiao TONITE!!!

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

 
Photo by Chris Cazzone
Story by Aaron Covey
Las Vegas, NV - Tonight, the biggest active name in boxing takes on the sport’s pound-for-pound kingpin when Oscar De La Hoya (39-5, 30KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (47-3, 35KOs), square off at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. As we learned from the Pavlik-Hopkins bout, styles [...]

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Taylor vs. Lacy Preview

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Nashville, TN     Friendship will be set aside as 2000 USA Olympic teammates Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (27-2-1, 17 KOs) and Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy (24-1, 17 KOs) put bragging rights and their boxing careers on the line in their super middleweight clash tonight at Vanderbilt University’s Memorial Gymnasium. The fight will be televised live at [...]

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