In stunning, shocking, incredibly mind-blowing news, an old boxer is coming out of retirement. 46-year-old Evander "Half-an-Ear" Holyfield is fighting Russian Nikolai Valuev. Ugh.The Valuev-Holyfield fight is a joke, says the insightful manager of world heavyweight champs Witali and Vladimir Klitschko. Bernd Boente, who manages both of the Klitschko brothers, called the meeting between Valuev and Holyfield a "disaster" and a "farce." Which makes it not much different from most heavyweight prizefights.
ESPN.com has launched their new, slimmed down website. It's for everybody who found the graphics-heavy, font-soup of the previous incarnation too cluttered to navigate. Which was many, many people. Almost everyone. The new site is still in beta, but you can check it out here. From there, click over to ESPN Mag's superior already uncluttered website and read Sam Alipour's story on LeBron in Hollywood.
Busted Coverage is holding their annual Blogger of the Year tourney, with 64 of the county's best-known (and unknown) bloggers battling it out for the coveted crown. Okay. Really, no one except the bloggers themselves actually covet the title -- and maybe not even some of them. But it's good fun nonetheless and might turn you on to a writer who covers only and exactly the sports you care for. For every player, every team, every niche sport on earth, someone here writes about it.
