41. The sport was all boxing and erm the film was erm a horror film, but a modern one. 42. Almost everyone here in Vegas this week for the fight admits the sport is in trouble. 43. Although opinions differ in Mexico about Valenzuela the civilian, he remains the most-loved athlete in a country whose national sport is soccer. 44. Amateur boxing officials have long claimed their sport is far safer than the pros and have lobbied successfully to keep it in the Olympics. 45. Amateur sports was a major attraction in the Catskills. 46. Among the central worries rippling through the sport then is whether that kind of financing will diminish if the drug scandals persist. 47. An added plus is that the sports are easy to learn. 48. And a sport without spectators is a sport without sponsors. 49. And different sports are more, or less, forgiving of the ravages of time. 50. And because India is desperately poor, sports are a potential ladder out of a life of grinding deprivation. |