By Ron Borges
GLENDALE, AZ. – On Sunday Steve and Zak DeOssie will join an exclusive club within an exclusive club. They will be among the small percentage of NFL players ever to have reached the Super bowl but they will be something far rarer than that.
They will be one of nine father-and-son teams to have […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
The formula for beating the unbeatable Patriots is a lot easier to come by than to execute. You play to win or you prepare to lose.
Those are the simple options facing Tom Coughlin and his New York Giants Sunday night when they try to upset the unbeaten Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. If […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
Up until last week the fans voting in the Herald’s bracketed competition to name the greatest Patriot of all-time (did we have any doubt who that would be?) were pretty much on the money.
For example, they kept linebacker Mike Vrabel going farther than his No. 10 seeding would have seemed possible and they […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
If the long shot Giants find a way to upset the peerless Patriots Sunday night in Super Bowl XLII, New Yorkers will immediately insist it’s the biggest upset since David dropped Goliath with a well placed stone to the noggin. New Yorkers would be wrong, not that that’s anything new.
They will talk about […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
NEW YORK – Time does not stand still but Felix Trinidad did. That’s why he ended up on the floor Saturday night.
Once one of the most feared punchers in boxing, a man who had not fought in nearly three years squared off with a 39-year-old opponent who was 2-3 in his last five […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
NEW YORK – This is the part the public seldom sees – the sad vulnerability of the journeyman boxer revealed in its near nakedness.
Alex Bunema had come to Madison Square Garden well aware of what was expected of him. He was supposed to lose to former IBF super welterweight champion Roman Karmazin, […]

[Read more →]

 
Getty Images
By Ron Borges
Almost since the day the Patriots came from behind to beat the Indianapolis Colts in November, the pundits, prognosticators and pigskin prophets (not to mention the pigskin profiteers) insisted that the “real’’ Super Bowl would be played this Sunday in Foxborough between the defending Super Bowl champions and the best team of […]

[Read more →]

Roy Jones, Jr. vs. Felix Trinidad
By Ron Borges
NEW YORK – Don King is selling memories at Madison Square Garden this weekend but few people are buying.
King has done all he could to convince the boxing public that there is a reason to be interested in watching two old geezers well past their prime fight for […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
If consistency is a key to playoff success no one was more consistent than the Pick 6 picks last weekend, which were 0-for-4.
This is typical of the kind of weekend it was. Take the Seahawks plus 8 and Seattle turns two early turnovers into touchdowns. What we had at that point was the […]

[Read more →]

By Ron Borges
You have to hand it to the Herald and to Patriot fans.
The Herald came up with this idea of naming the all-time greatest Patriot player by on-line balloting and turned it into an interesting bracketing tournament that has now advanced through four rounds and left, like the NFL playoffs, only eight men standing.
Whoever […]

[Read more →]