Entertainment & Arts
Joe Ely and Joe Pug at the Mint
March 14, 2013
Sports
Rocky Balboa has scored a TKO against Marvel Comics Group: The comics company has recalled its second issue of “G.I.
Nov. 9, 1986
Oscar De La Hoya is too good to be true.
June 6, 1996
In the aftermath of the richest fight in history, columnist Jim Murray summed up best the relentless style of the undefeated heavyweight champion, Joe Frazier.
March 8, 1999
Time was when, to get somewhere in the fight game in this country, a pug had to take a run up to arenas in Pittsfield or Holyoke, Mass., take on a trial horse or two, win big, then climb into two dozen rings in tanktowns and learn his craft in a slow, painstaking way.
Jan. 12, 1993
California
Diana Geerling dashes the caricature of dog owners who resemble their pets.
Jan. 16, 1989
Yorba Linda man’s post on MySpace had drawn the attention of PETA, which urges a vigorous prosecution.
April 17, 2008
World & Nation
Hurricane Floyd, a faint-hearted pug as heavyweight storms go, stomped eastward across the Florida Keys on Monday, then sideswiped the mainland just south of Miami.
Oct. 13, 1987
The trouble with Sugar Ray Leonard as a pug is, he doesn’t look like one.
Dec. 7, 1989
Remember the good old days when pugs were big old lovable lugs who hung their heads and were bashful and uncommunicative and mumbled platitudes about their opponents in the best traditions of Gary Cooper and all the guys in the white hats?
Dec. 6, 1985