Love it or hate it… we explore our collective fascination with the ’sweet science’ of boxing this week on The Signal
- What is it about the sport of boxing that’s so singularly riveting? Some of us can’t stand to watch it, and some of us can’t take our eyes away. We explore the ‘sweet science’ this hour when we meet Baltimore boxing trainer Mack Lewis. We also hear from boxing champ Mike ‘The Persecutor’ Paschal, who remembers what it was like to step into the ring for his first professional fight. Poet Reginald Harris shares some verse inspired by the squared circle, and writer Lionel Foster explores his own reaction to the televised blood-sport of Ultimate Fighting.
- Also this hour, a conversation with Tracey Gaughran Perez, a former English professor turned stay-at-home mom who shares her thoughts on… just about everything… on her blog, Sweetney.
- And from the storytelling series The Stoop, Fred Lohr remembers the many misadventures of his first job, working as a summer camp counselor.
HELPFUL LINKS:
Poet Reginald Harris is the author of “Ten Tongues”
Lionel Foster is a staff writer at The Urbanite magazine
Here’s a link to the blog Sweetney
Here’s a link to The Stoop storytelling series