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guardian.co.uk Sport
10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -No sport delivers its participants more contrasting emotions than boxing: elation, fear, relief, pride, despair. And no boxing brothers, surely, have experienced those feelings with as much relentless intensity as have Gilbert and Howard Eastman. A little over a week ago, Gilbert was a fit, proud, professional boxer. Today, his career finished, his life saved by the genius of doctors and nurses at the Royal London Hospital, he will be happy, at 35, that he is able to move and to talk. Howard was always the 'big brother' - protective, confident, assertive...
guardian.co.uk Sport
10/25/2008 4:21 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -Preamble: Good morning again from Santa Anita, California, where the coffee is hot, the tea is undrinkable and the beer is very cold. I'm taking that last bit on trust, of course, as even I've got limits. It's 8.27 in the morning here, for goodness sake.That's not stopping the paying punters, though, as they prepare for nine of the highest-quality flat races anywhere on the planet (OK, eight and the Marathon if you want to be picky). The first ones were here before dawn, and by the time your correspondent arrived at 7...