Bernard has been at the Philadelphia Daily News for 23 years. His primary beats are boxing, which he has covered for nearly 20 years, and Penn State football. During his career, he has served as four-term president of the Boxing Writers Association of America; received the Nat Fleischer Award from the BWAA in April 1999 for lifetime achievement; been inducted into the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (2005), and received 63 local, state, regional and national writing and public-service awards, including two firsts and a second in the APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) writing contest.
THERE'S ONE THING most of us can agree on: It's more difficult to take off weight than it is to put it on.
YOU HAVE TO give Jackie Kallen credit. The lady is not afraid to take risks.
"My theory has always been that to be the best, you have to beat the best," said Kallen, perhaps the best-known female boxing manager of all time and the inspiration for a 2004 movie, "Against the Ropes," that starred Meg Ryan. "W
- I DON'T KNOW this for sure, but I'm guessing that Lock Haven University's promotional brochures don't attempt to attract prospective students by advising them that the small school in central Pennsylvania is one of the better institutions of higher learning at which one can learn the proper way to hook off the jab.
- NOT EVERY mixed martial arts organization is flourishing - the International Fight League, for one, has been hemorrhaging money - but the Ultimate Fighting Challenge remains the industry's gold standard. When the UFC puts
- REMEMBER the opening scenes of 1986's "Top Gun"? An F-14 fighter pilot with the call name "Cougar" gets spooked by a close encounter with a Russian MiG, decides he's lost the edge and turns in his wings. By doing so, he relinquishes his opportunity for
- THEY CALL THEM "separation fights," with good reason. You take two young, preferably undefeated prospects, pair them up and barring a draw - one takes a big step forward. The other doesn't.
- FLOYD MAYWEATHER Jr.'s most recent retirement had scarcely been made public on Friday when cynics began to question the "real" motive behind boxing's best pound-for-pound performer's stepping away from the sport at age 31.
- HEY, KELLY PAVLIK! You're the undefeated world middleweight champion and the recipient of seven-figure purses after years of fighting off-television for chump change. So, how is your lifestyle different?
- MIXED MARTIAL ARTS' much-ballyhooed debut on a prime-time, over-the-air television network proved a case of too much and too little.
- DAMON FELDMAN'S tentative first steps as a promoter of local "celebrity boxing'' cards included ring appearances by disc jockeys, TV weathermen and a certain aging, out-of-shape boxing writer.
- HIS WIFE was recovering from surgery, so ESPN2 color commentator Teddy Atlas had an excuse for not being at ringside for his network's Friday night telecast of the Chris Byrd-Shaun George light-heavyweight bout in Las Vegas.
- MAYBE IT'S because she's one of the middle children born into a large family. Maybe it's because her eight siblings also are Type A personalities. Maybe it's because she gets her back up whenever people who don't know her look at this 28-year-old married woman and think they see a 4-11, 110-pound girl who should be heading to her first day of middle school.
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