'Boxing gives Parkinson's patients a fighting spirit (Miami Herald) Personal trainer Craig Marks wants to help his clients slam Parkinson's disease with a knockout blow -- literally. Marks and his fellow trainer Onyedikachi Ibeji, who run a gym in Davie, lead a group of about eight Parkinson's patients twice a week through a workout routine that includes boxing. And they swear by his unconventional methods.
'Yanez reinstated to USA Boxing (Sports Illustrated) USA Boxing reinstated Luis Yanez to the Olympic team Wednesday, more than two weeks after the light flyweight was kicked off the Beijing roster for missing several weeks of workouts.
'New Sport Combines Boxing and Chess (Fox News) The combatants switch back and forth between boxing and chess ? repeatedly putting their gloves on and taking them off, so that they can move the pieces around the board without clumsily knocking them over ? in a sort of brains-and-brawn biathlon.