This Week in No Mas

3/11
Happy Drogba
Madsear sends his birthday wishes to the reigning African footballer of the year, Didier Drogba.

Rocky and Apollo
The heat gets turned up yet another notch for the Oscar/Floyd extravaganza, as Sugar Shane signs on as Oscar's sparring partner. "... we have something that may be a first - a decorated former champion going backwards, taking a gig as a sparring partner for a man he twice defeated in the ring. Not only that, but just consider this for a second - there will be two former pound-for-pound kings going at it in the Golden Boy's camp on a daily basis."

3/12
K.O.W. - The Marksman Gets Shot
For our Knockout of the Week, we decided to pump up the hype a little for Bell/Mormeck II, which takes place tomorrow night in France. "This was an electrifying fight from start to finish, as Bell came back from an early walk down queer street to finish off a clearly exhausted Mormeck (check out Mormeck's epxression on the canvas after the knockout - there is a man who truly does not know where he is)."

Woody Hayes, 1913-1987
The anniversary of the death of Woody Hayes, a true original and No Mas hero. "As for Hayes on Hayes, he summed up his coaching career in the most concise terms imaginable by saying, 'Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.'"

3/13
Judging the Committee
Unsilent Majority (of Kissing Suzy Kolber fame) joins the No Mas starting five to give us some March Madness coverage. Here he takes the tournament selection committee to task.

Hammered
The 46th anniversary of Patterson/Johansson III, in which Floyd won the rubber match of one of boxing's all-time great trilogies.

3/14
Deep Tennis with Steve Tignor
Steve tells us about the coolest tennis player that no one ever talks about - Torben Ulrich, father of Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich. "He was often described as "seeing everything upside down." His practices might consist of booking a court for dusk and then going out alone and sitting on it for an hour to feel it as the sun went down. Or getting a better sense of the ball by moving it around the court with his nose. He also liked to practice his errors."

Everything else is for pussies
Sleep-driving? Don't tell us about sleep-driving. "Look... we KNOW what sleep-driving is - the finest, purest, most exhilirating contact sport known to man. We here at No Mas were sleep-driving back when the FDA was sucking on its mama's teat."

3/15
Introducing the Group of Death
On opening day of the tourney, Unsilent present us with his Group of Death - the West.

Truelove Bowl
Our British correspondent Jamie Fraser brings us an eyewitness report from the 100th annual varsity boxing match between Oxford and Cambridge. "The sartorial sensibilities of the attendees at the York Hall usually encompass East End geezers in Gucci suits and aged coulda-been-a-contenders in tracksuits, but tonight was different. Apart from the referees, I don’t think that I had ever seen anyone in black tie on any of my previous visits to the York Hall – now the bar was awash with dinner jackets and the washed-out blue of Cambridge blazers."

3/16
The No Mas Top 23 Wrestlemania Moments
Franchise continues with his WM countdown, this week taking us down from #13 to #10. It's a star-studded affair - the Hulkster, the Macho Man, the Nature Boy, Ultimate Warrior, Stone Cold and The Rock are all represented.

Yawn...
Does it come as a surprise that Large is bored by the prospect of tomorrow night's Barrera/Marquez fight? "... for fighters of this caliber, especially towards the end of their careers, I need something to lay in the balance, some irreversible conclusion to be drawn from what happens in the ring. This would have been a huge fight say... five years ago. Now, it's an afterthought."