3 US boxers punched out of Games
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Athens -- Vanes Martirosyan became the second American to bow out of the Olympic boxing tournament Thursday when he was defeated 20-11 by Lorenzo Aragon of Cuba in their welterweight bout at 152 pounds.
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Sport: Australian Open: Former champion Amelie Mauresmo is knocked out in the third round
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The US boxing team sucked on sour grapes after being left with just one gold medal prospect in the Olympic boxing tournament Friday.
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The United States lost 89-81 in thesemi-final of the men&#39;s basketball tournament Friday. This is the third loss for US in the tournament as they lost 94-90 to Lithuania and 92
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ATHENS - Calling all Andres. Maybe that&#39;s what&#39;s wrong with the US boxing team. Not enough Andres. Only two US boxers reached today&#39;s medal round, middleweight Andre Dirrell and light heavyweight Andre Ward.
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07.12.04 - By Marcus Wood: July 30th 2004 Danny Williams knocked out Mike Tyson in the fourth round in Louisville, USA. Fast forward four months and Danny Williams is preparing to fight reigning WBC world champion Vitali Klitschko as a direct result.
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Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Robredo, the top two seeds in the menâs draw at the Pilot Pen in New Haven, were eliminated in straight sets yesterday in the third round.And in the womenâs draw, a qualifier advanced to the semifinals when Agnes Szavay defeated eighth-seeded Alona Bondarenko, 6-1, 6-4.Davydenko, the defending champion, lost to Gilles Simon, 6-4, 6-4. Robredo fell to Stanislas Wawrinka, 6-3, 6-3. Igor Andreev beat fourth-seeded David Ferrer, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4.James Blake, seeded third, won, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1, after being down three match points to Agustin Calleri.
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Ron Siler had just taken a beating, and now it seemed like the whole US boxing team was down for the count. Fighters weren&#39;t following directions, medal hopes were slipping
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NEW YORK - After preliminaries stuffed with enough lawsuits and trash-talk to make Don King proud, the first of TV's battling boxing series threw some real punches on Tuesday.    Fox's "The Next Great Champ" takes 12 amateur boxers and has them compete for a contract with Oscar De La Hoya's promotional company and a title fight within the World Boxing Organization...
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Score tied. One round to go. A shot at an Olympic boxing gold medal at stake. Apparently only US coach Basheer Abdullah didn&#39;t know his 178-pound fighter, Andre Ward, was even with
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American Shannon Briggs has canceled his World Boxing Organization heavyweight title defense against Russia's Sultan Ibragimov on March 10 because of pneumonia, a spokesman for Madison Square Garden said on Wednesday.
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Bruce Arena is out as coach of the United States men&#039;s soccer team less than three weeks after the Americans&#039; first-round exit from the World Cup.
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The United States had lost nine straight Olympic matches, dating to the Atlanta Games in 1996. Clay Stanley made sure it didn't continue.
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John Ruiz took winning ugly to new depths last night at Madison Square Garden. In a match so inelegant it inspired more than a half-dozen fights in
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Three Romanian boxers have been given  life bans after they were caught shoplifting in a plush Chicago  department store during the world amateur championships.
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World No. 1 Roger Federer and American stalwart Andre Agassi led the winners Saturday at the US Open, with Agassi one of only two Americans advancing to the third round, the worst US men&#39;s performance in history at the event.
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Promoter Don King opened the heavyweight divisionâs recycle bin at New York on Saturday night, and Evander Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Andrew Golota, Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall came tumbling out.