Venn Diagram

What's the Venn Diagram of "Princeton grads" and "guys-who-fought-Mike-Tyson" look like?

The "set" is one more than you might think:


That's Henry Milligan, Princeton class of 1981, as part of the 1984 Olympic Trials.

He acquits himself better than did Marvis Frazier:

But of course, as Tyson himself once said (channeling nineteenth-century Prussian soldier Helmuth von Moltke), "Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth."
(Hat-tip: SportsProf.)

Welcome to the NFL, Kid

After a spring and summer where he mostly stayed above the fray of his wife's presidential campaign, President Bill Clinton injected himself into primary politics when he criticized Barack Obama's experience Friday night on the Charlie Rose PBS-TV show, saying that the country should not 'roll the dice' on an individual who had just "one year" of experience in national politics at the time he began running for President.

Nevermind the fact that then-Governor Clinton had zero years of experience in national politics at the time he began running for President in 1991; Clinton attempted to draw a distinction between his 'vision' of the role of the United States in the post-Cold War era:


We are now into unchartered waters, with a former two-term Democratic President taking sides in the primary, and the current front-runner (by all polling) trying to deflect criticism, while not directly criticizing a potent Democratic symbol. Obama has proved himself a very effective counter-puncher against Hillary directly:



However, he is now sparring with the political equivalent of (an early 1970s) George Foreman, and the next days will determine whether he can continue to counter-punch effectively:

Hagler/Hearns Remembered

Although the Mayweather/de la Hoya fight on Saturday was somewhat entertaining, it was mere patty-cake compared to the show that Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler put on in 1985, in a similar weight class (Hagler/Hearns were middleweights (160 lbs.); Mayweather moved up in class to fight de la Hoya as a Junior Middleweight (154 lbs.))

In fairness, Hagler/Hearns is one of the great fights -- and probably the greatest round (the first) -- of all time.

UPDATE: The Hagler/Hearns fight is available on YouTube; HBO forced YouTube to take the Mayweather/de la Hoya fight down this week, in advance of HBO's planned rebroadcast on Saturday night.