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Manfredo boxing tickets on sale tomorrow

1:44 PM Tue, Oct 14, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

PROVIDENCE -- Tickets to the pro boxing show at the Dunkin Donuts Center featuring a 12-round main event for the International Boxing Organization super middleweight title between Providence native Peter Manfredo Jr. (31-5, 16 KOs), who currently holds the North......

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Peter Manfredo Jr. gets another world title shot

2:56 PM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

PROVIDENCE -- Providence boxer Peter Manfredo Jr. (31-5, 16 KOs), star of The Contender I television series, will fight The Contender season three winner Sakio Bika (26-3-2, 16 KOs) on Nov. 13 at the Dunkin Donuts Center for the vacant......

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Providence Olympian Demetrius Andrade making pro debut soon

andrade.jpg 1:57 PM Wed, Sep 24, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

Journal photo / Steve Szydlowski Demetrius Andrade and his daughter, 2-year-old Autum, at his news conference today. Click here to see video of the announcement. PROVIDENCE - Demetrius Andrade closed one chapter of his illustrious boxing career in Beijing,......

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Rajon Rondo shocks Lakers in Celtics victory

1:25 AM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

By ROBERT LEE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER BOSTON -- Quick. Name the Celtic who took the most shots last night. Paul Pierce? Wrong. Ray Allen? Try again. Well then surely it must be Kevin Garnett. Strike three. If you said Rajon......

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Ray Allen has big game in honor of his ailing son

1:03 AM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

By ROBERT LEE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER BOSTON – Ray Allen was playing with a heavy heart last night. He was playing for his teammates, the Boston fans, and to cement his Hall of Fame career by winning his first NBA......

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Phil Jackson says Lakers lost the game in the second quarter

1:00 AM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

By ROBERT LEE JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER BOSTON -- Los Angeles coach Phil Jackson said that Boston took away the Lakers fire midway through the second quarter when the Celtics used a 26-6 run to break open a 32-29 game and......

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NBA FINALS IN-GAME: Ray Allen returns

10:01 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Rob Lee    Email

BY ROBERT LEE Journal Sports Writer BOSTON -- Ray Allen returned from Boston's locker room with 6:00 left in the second quarter to a standing ovation. He left the game late in the first quarter after being poked in the......

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