Mayorga vs. Vargas. AP photo
By Ron Borges
Sometimes things don’t work out the way you planned. Friday night was such a night for Fernando Vargas.
What was supposed to be his glorious exit from the boxing ring was transformed into a bloody beating from an opponent he had grown to dislike more than Oscar De La […]

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By Ron Borges
Reportedly, the Philadephia Eagles are insulted to be coming to Foxborough on Sunday as the biggest non-expansion team regular-season underdog in the history of the La Cosa Nostra Point Spread (Isn’t everything sponsored these days?).
When you’re allegedly a professional football franchise and you’re a 22-point underdog (23 ½ when the week started) one […]

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By Ron Borges
Here we go again. After a Thursday of turkey eating in which my picks were 3-0 we take a wee look at the weekend’s fare. Unfortunately, none of my three picks – Dallas, Green Bay and the Colts – were recorded here but you could have gotten them on 1-900-LOCK-UP.
Having likely missed those […]

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 Ricky Williams 2005
By Ron Borges
The most mercurial running back since the days of Duane Thomas and the Dallas Cowboys is back in the NFL. Almost.
Ricky Williams won’t really be back until Monday and not even he probably knows how long he’ll be back for but one thing is clear – if he’s anywhere near what […]

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By Ron Borges
Last week’s effort led to a 3-3 split and a lockadini winner but unless you loaded up on that one, or on the upset special that also hit, you lost the vig and a few more dollars. So it goes.
Unless, of course, you follow the advice of some of my loyal readers, who […]

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By Ron Borges
The first week of selections performed pretty much as my long-time observers would have expected: 2-4 with a losing Lockadini. At that rate we’ll be broke long before the Super Bowl.
This continues a long tradition of helping out the gambling public. Some have figured out the proper formula, which is to study these […]

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 By Ron Borges
 NEW YORK – Too much Sugar might be bad for you but last night there was just enough of it left in Madison Square Garden for Miguel Cotto to taste a sweet victory.
It is a familiar story in boxing, one that was pounded out once again by the 27-year-old WBO welterweight champion […]

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By Ron Borges
NEW YORK – They have the ideal boxing match at Madison Square Garden Saturday night, which is why they had to open up the mezzanine level seats this week to accommodate what had become an overflow crowd.
The reason why is not the simple jingoism of loyal Puerto Rican fight fans […]

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By Ron Borges

Bill Parcells used to say there isn’t one NFL season there’s four, each month created new looks, new injuries and new problems for each team in the league to face. His point was that who you were after the first four weeks may not resemble who you become in the final four weeks.
Two […]

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