Tag: boxing
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Project Fighting Chance Faces High Fees
By Dianne Anderson When push comes to shove, Project Fighting Chance is worried about what to do with the kids. Like most small nonprofits, the last thing they can afford is a monthly outlay set to balloon three times what they have been paying for years for their space at the Home of Neighborly Service ... -
Local Youth Dreams of Olympic Boxing Gold
By Timothy Lewis Terry Washington, a 17-year-old San Bernardino youth took home the gold medal at the USA Boxing National Junior Olympics in Lubbock, Texas in July. Washington trains at Project Fighting Chance, a gym originally created as a youth mentoring and life skills program which provided kids structure through organized sports. Throughout, Project Fighting ... -
Boxing Great ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler Dies at 66
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who ruled the middleweight boxing division in the 1980s, yet never received the recognition he deserved as an all-time great, has died. Hagler was 66. Before Hagler’s death, former boxer Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns posted on Instagram that the legend had “taken ill.” ...