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Michael Katz has boxing and New York in his blood. He was born in the Bronx, went to high school in Brooklyn, college in Manhattan (CCNY, did not graduate after six years full-time day session, a world record for over a decade). He started writing for New York Times in 1960 and was with the newspaper in one capacity or another for a quarter-century – including six years in Paris as European Sports Correspondent, Sports Editor of NY Times International Edition and Sports Editor of International Herald Tribune (1966-72). He returned to The Times main newsroom in New York City in 1972. Katz left the Times in 1985 to go to the NY Daily News after Vic Ziegel, an old CCNY buddy, was named sports editor. He left the News in 2000 to go to houseofboxing.com, and when the house came down he went to max. And now, serendipity, Katz graces our starry ranks. Michael Katz is widowed, has one daughter (Moorea, named for island upon which she was conceived), a 24-year-old UNLV grad (she moved to Vegas three and a half years ago to keep an eye on her dad), and a couple of dogs, Kimball (yes, named for beloved George of The Sweet Science) and Colada (whom Katz affectionately calls Barfie).

Pat Putnam has been covering boxing since 1960, since the day The Miami Herald executive sports editor Bob Elliott tapped him on the shoulder and said: "You are my new boxing writer." The next day Putnam showed up at Chris and Angelo Dundee's 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach, which a few months later would become the home base of a fellow named Cassius Marcellus Clay. "Five days a week for the next seven years it was Sweet Science 101," says Putnam. In 1968, Putnam moved north to Sports Illustrated, where he would cover boxing, as well as many other sports including those at six Olympics, for the next 27 years. In 1982, he won the Nat Fleischer Award "For Excellence In Boxing Journalism." After retiring in 1995, Putnam has done free-lance work for The Observer of London, Showtime, HBO, The New York Times, the Japanese boxing magazine Number, the Variety magazine Vlife, and America Presents, where, he says: "I made a star of Fred Sternburg."

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Wait And See On Hamed Wanne Be
"I reckon there'll be quite a few Brits in the crowd routing for Bradley to beat this Hamed wanna be. The British public may have adored Hamed's theatrics, but most of the British boxing fans just found it embarassing. If Witter was a little less mouthy, and could keep up the aggressiveness he shows on occasion (he can whack), he'd win over a lot more boxing fans, and make a fight with Hatton a more attractive prospect. As Ricky says, he can't be the only one bringing something to the table. Do another Vivian Harris and we'll see." ---TSS reader Newscastle Andy is waiting to make a verdict

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Oscar De La Hoya Forbes Press
Fight fans, on Saturday, May 3rd TSS will bring you Round by Round coverage of the Oscar De La Hoya v. Steve Forbes showdown live from the Home Depot Center in Carson, Ca. Join us at 10:00pm ET / 7:00pm PT for bell-to-bell coverage and ringside analysis.

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