Posts tagged “sports”
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Review of The Sweetest Thing by author Thomas Hauser
May 25, 2011
The Sweetest Thing by Mischa Merz recounts the author’s experiences as a forty-something amateur boxer.
“I can hit,” she quotes Wolfe as saying. “I can hit hard. I hit like a man, and I’m gonna hurt you. When you get in that ring with me, you better have your soul right, because I’m gonna destroy you. I’ll have no conscience about what I’ll do to you. I’m trying to survive, and I’ll destroy anything I come in contact with before it destroys me. I’m a natural killer. You gonna bully me? My parents died when I was a kid. I lived on the streets, eating out of trash cans. I lived with killers. How you gonna bully me in a boxing ring?”
Bernard Hopkins couldn’t have said it better.
Tags: book review, boxing, mischa merz, sports, sweet science, the sweetest thing, thomas hauser, women
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Mischa Merz at Gleason’s Gym
May 6, 2011
Below is a video of Mischa Merz boxing at Gleason’s Gym on April 30th, 2011 during her book tour for The Sweetest Thing.
Tags: book tour, boxing, gleason's gym, mischa merz, sports, sweetest thing, women
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Barry Gifford’s “double play” on baseball and Hemingway
May 6, 2011
“Barry Gifford is a novelist with an infielder’s glove. A widely respected author, he once swung a mean bat — mean enough to have received a baseball scholarship to the University of Missouri.” — The Mercury News
Tags: barry gifford, baseball, sailor and lula, sports, wild at heart
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The Sweetest Thing “chronicles the best of women’s boxing”
May 6, 2011
“Mischa Merz’s odyssey through the scuffed looking glass of America’s best boxing gyms is already one for the history books. . . . an autobiography full of character sketches that crackles and sparks with the ring of truth.”
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, sports, the sweetest thing, women
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How the “sweet overcomes the sour” in The Sweetest Thing
May 6, 2011
This is a book about women’s boxing and its search for respectability, but it is not a book of sermons. For being a double outsider – an Australian woman in American boxing – Merz has an uncommon perspective. And her observations about fighting are first rate.
Tags: mischa merz, mma, sports, the sweetest thing, women's boxing
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WBAN review of The Sweetest Thing
April 14, 2011
In the preface to “The Sweetest Thing,” her second book on the sport on the sport of Women’s boxing, Mischa Merz leaves no doubt about her choice of subject: “My relationship with boxing has been like one you would have with another human being. I have loathed it and adored it. It has both invaded my dreams and turned my stomach. I have resolved to reduce its significance in my life only to see my passions for it intensify. Boxing is my man. Even my husband will tell you so.” …Her boxing experience and her continuing participation in the sport dovetails well when an inside (the ropes) explanation of the sport is required. It’s a combination that few authors are capable of providing and less than those few are capable of articulating so well. It adds up to a book worth reading about a sport worth knowing more about.
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, sports, the sweetest thing, women
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New review of Mischa Merz’s The Sweetest Thing
March 24, 2011
“The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer’s Memoir (Seven Stories Press, 2011) is a highly readable chronicle of [Merz's] immersion, at the age of forty-five, into real, gritty, fierce competition. . . . This is a rare journey inside the packed gym locker of a true fighter’s brain, a journalist who can take you with her on a wild and brave ride. Fasten your seatbelts – Mischa Merz is a boxer to watch. And more women are coming.” — Binnie Klein, author of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, review, sports, sweetest thing, women
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New review of Mischa Merz’s The Sweetest Thing
March 24, 2011
“The Sweetest Thing: A Boxer’s Memoir (Seven Stories Press, 2011) is a highly readable chronicle of [Merz's] immersion, at the age of forty-five, into real, gritty, fierce competition. . . . This is a rare journey inside the packed gym locker of a true fighter’s brain, a journalist who can take you with her on a wild and brave ride. Fasten your seatbelts – Mischa Merz is a boxer to watch. And more women are coming.” — Binnie Klein, author of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind
Tags: boxing, mischa merz, review, sports, the sweetest thing
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Leonard Miller on China Radio International
June 17, 2010
Today, June 17, Leonard Miller appeared on China Radio International, broadcasting throughout China and around the world, to talk about Racing While Black: How An African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR. Click here to listen at the CRI site!
Tags: audio, china radio international, interviews, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, sports
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Jay Leno’s Book Club on Racing While Black
June 3, 2010
From Jay Leno’s Garage, here’s Leno and Leonard Miller talking about Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock-Car Team Made Its Mark On NASCAR. Take a look!
Tags: interviews, jay leno, leonard miller, race, racing while black, sports, videos