IN MY OPINION
Ex-football star Bernie Kosar continues to fight through the pain
A star in sports and business, the ex-quarterback is now struggling with bankruptcy, a broken marriage and a broken-down body.
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Salsa crackles over the speakers, fighting to be heard above all the punches. Speed bags. Heavy bags. This is the music to which Yuriorkis Gamboa has always danced, the soundtrack to his life since the Cuban government started programming him to be a fighter. It makes sense that this tiny champion with firecrackers in his fists would train now on Calle Ocho, the street where Miami and Cuba most famously intersect. He represents one of the few things the rotting island he fled is still fertile enough...
A star in sports and business, the ex-quarterback is now struggling with bankruptcy, a broken marriage and a broken-down body.
ISLAMORADA -- This is where the sweat is, in a cramped and dark room away from all the light in his life. It is the only place you will find the scent of who Jimmy Johnson used to be, back when the chase defined him and made him a so very unhappy champion, and it smells a lot differently than the rest of his manicured property out here in paradise.
Jim Leyritz, who will go on trial on DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges this fall, has struggled with a tangled web of emotions that have haunted him since the fateful night that changed his life forever.
Y ou remember him wrapped in so much armor. Muscles. Helmet. Padding. Distrust. The late Sean Taylor was known as one of the most menacing hitters in a violent game. But when the news organizations started putting his fresh face on TV screens in recent days -- no helmet, no scowl, no aura -- you couldn't help but notice this: My God, he looked like such a baby-faced child.