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The Colts win was not him beating his little brother but simply, "the Colts beating the Giants," a point he made clear and often to the media. What did he see and like about his brother’s play? Well he first remarked: “He’s just as cool as he looks on TV.�

And they had won on the road ladies and gentlemen. Coach Mingini came into town with no starting quarterback and the loss of a hall of fame running back. It is only one win but a win is always a beautiful thing, laps and all.

Angola participated for the first time at the World Cup finals which were held in June this year but failed to advance beyond the first round. The national side, the Palancas Negros (Black Antelopes) put up a good showing together with four other African countries which made it to the Germany 2006 world cup finals.

Kassim Ouma joined the Ugandan army as a “Kadogo,� the Kiswahili term for child soldier in the mid 1980s and later joined the army’s boxing team. When the team competed in the World Military Boxing Championship in San Antonio, Texas, in 1998, he was able to get his passport. He fled

It’s been dubbed “ACN-Ghana-2008.� Stars, who spice up several leagues out of their native African countries, will return home to bolster their teams for the continent’s most prestigious event.

Quartey, didn’t see boxing as a pretty picture in his life anymore and departed the game he loved. Now he is back. Feeling and knowing he can still fight, win and be a champion again. Also his trust in his promoter, Lou DiBella from both a business and personal side, were major factors in his return and restored faith. "I came back because I love to fight," he has stated.

Interestingly, Lee’s marginalising did not follow the conventional route. His name did not appear in the pamphlet Red Channels. Neither was he put in the position of having to refuse to testify against “namedâ€? persons before HUAC. Still, he was blacklisted. The stress brought about by his blacklisting proved fatal, Lee succumbing to the effects of hypertension on May 9th 1952. Wrote Ossie Davis, "Canada Lee couldn’t find a job anywhere and died of a broken heart.

Far from being the uncultured “child of the jungle,� Siki was a man who spoke several languages including French, Dutch and English. And contrary to the postulated naïve buffoon who unwisely put his crown on the line in Ireland, Benson depicts Siki as a fighter in need of a healthy fight purse which was denied to him after he upset Carpentier

Carlos Baldomir was once again in foreign territory. Oh yea he was the champion, but only in title, this was Gatti’s crowd, promoter and television company. So he did what was only left for him to do, win. And how he did. He walked down and through Gatti and finally, after playing somewhat with the smaller man, sent him to the canvas on back to back occasions in round nine.

From Paul Robeson to Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali to Jim Brown to Arthur Ashe to Olympic medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, there is an abundant legacy of commitment to the Black community. But judging by today’s socially-unenlightened crop of sports icons, one might suspect that rich history of activism and advocating for the underclass to be more fairy tale than fact.