This Week in No Mas

2/4
Super Birthday Sunday
A birthday bonanza on Super Sunday that includes the Golden Boy, The Lone Eagle, and Godzilla.

Intimations of Immortality and the Problem of the Super Bowl
Large hates the Super Bowl. He explains why, at length. "It’s the pinnacle of the advertising age – the summation of all of our efforts to make a science of selling things to each other. How thorough and inescapable that science has become, the ways in which it seems to have colonized literature and art and music and sports and every single thing that we say or do or need in our lives… this is the source of an immense anxiety in our culture today, and yes, the source of a gnawing nostalgia, one that No Mas trades in as much as anyone else."

2/5
K.O.W. - Pour Some Sugar on Me
With Sugar Shane fighting Collazo tomorrow night, we take you back to his prime for the Knockout of the Week - his devastating KO of Manuel Gomez in 1997. "It's amazing how Gomez just crumples forward over Shane's shoulder - "like a sack of potatoes," the announcer says, which sums it up quite nicely."

The Greatest Poetess of All Time
On the 25th anniversary of the death of great poet and sports-fan Marianne Moore, we recount the day that George Plimpton arranged for her to have tea with Ali at Toots Shor's, a meeting that resulted in a collaborative effort called "A Poem on the Annihilation of Ernie Terrell." "Ali announced that if she was the greatest poetess in the country, the two of them should produce something together - "I am a poet too," he said - a joint-effort sonnet, it was to be, with each of them doing alternate lines."

2/6
What's My Name?"
The 40th anniversary of the infamous Ali/Terrell bout, and Ali's legendary taunting in the ring. "Boxing writers eviscerated Ali in the media, saying that the beating he dished out to Terrell was cruel and unusual, a bizarre claim in a sport such as boxing. In retrospect, it's a claim that seems far more motivated by a presiding distaste for Ali than it was a legitimate concern for the well-being and dignity of Ernie Terrell."

2/7
A record even Gretzky couldn't break
We take you back to February 7, 1976, when the Maple Leafs' Darryl Sittler managed ten points - six goals and four assists - in a single game.

Oh Ricky you're so fat...
Why is Floyd Mayweather taunting Ricky Hatton? Why does Sugar Ray Leonard think anyone cares what he has to day about the matter? Why is Ricky Hatton so fat? Does Ricky Hatton even know about any of this? What the hell is going on here?

2/8
Sharpshootin' with the Franchise
Franchise had a lot on his mind this week - Travis Lutter's two-pound Waterloo, Undertaker v. Batista, the fate of Rob Van Dam, MMA on Showtime, and last but not least, Randy Savage v. Tito Santana.

A good walk spoiled
The thirteen-year anniversary of Jack Nicholson's famous bout of road rage/highway golf. "He shot a solid 40 going out, and then fell into a funk after the turn and brought it in with a 52, including a miserable quadruple bogey on the rear tail-lights. On the whole, not his finest hour, but not a terrible outing given the circumstances."

2/9
At last
On this day 36 years ago, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced that Satchel Paige would be the first black player inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame.