DOG COMMENTARY: ThIs WBC / WBC / Lineal / Ring World Light Heavyweight Unification Title Fight between WBC Champ Dwight Braxton (changed to Dwight Muhammad Qawi after this fight) vs. WBA Champ Michael Spinks took place at the Atlantic Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey on March 18, 1983…..as Braxton came into the fight…
DOG PHILOSOPHY: At this point in March 2018….we’ve posted some 2300 vintage videos here at ImaSportsphile….and only a very few bring are “blue diamonds” in our treasure chest of memories….and this is one of them…..as it is simply pure joy….as it is interesting to me who writes all the text seen with each post….how the two…
DOG COMMENTARY: Evander Holyfield is one of our seven legends of heavyweight boxing during The Golden Age of Boxing from 1964 – 1995…. as this video features the future legendary heavyweight champion when he was young and fighting as a cruiser weight boxer for the crown of Dwight Mohammad Qawi. By the time light heavyweight and cruiser…
DOG ASIDE: There is nothing more near and dear to a person born and reared in America than baseball….as every baseball fan I have ever known can sing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” ….and they know all the words too….for the song alone brings back so many memories to baseball fans and all they…
DOG COMMENTARY: Bone Daddy’s bar and restaurant, Madison Square Garden, The Sports Place at 302 E. 6th Street in Austin, Texas was located next door to Slim’s Barber Shop at 304 E. 6h St…..where University of Texas head baseball coach Cliff Gustafson would get his “weekly trim” and then come to The Garden for an MSG Special….which…
DOG ASIDE: This 1987 College World Series Game 3 was played on May 30th between the Texas Longhorns under Coach Cliff Gustafson verses the Arkansas Razorbacks under Coach Norm DeBryin. The Longhorns came into this game with a 58 – 9 season record….after winning the SWC Title for the 9th straight time with a record…
DOG COMMENTARY: Lightnin’ Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas….and as a child was immersed in the sounds of the blues…..as he developed a deep appreciation for this music at the age of 8….when he met Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church picnic in Buffalo, Texas. That day, Hopkins felt the blues was “in him”….so he went on to learn from his…
DOG COMMENTARY: In this 1979 amateur boxing video featuring the USA verses Cuba boxing teams…. the viewer gets a look at some of the outstanding 1980 USA Olympic Team…..who never got to fight for their country in the Moscow Olympics thanks to US President Jimmy Carter…..the “peanut farmer” who brought politics into the Olympic Games…..for Johnny Bumphus,…
DOG ASIDE: In this the 2nd half of NBC Sports pre-Super Bowl XV special….they bring in their 1st team of broadcasters, Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen, to take over the analysis and pregame interviews….with Eagles Coach Dick Vermeil and Raiders Coach Tom Flores. The program then shifts to the playing field where ex-QBs’ Len Dawson…