Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley – International Pre-Show
I wrote the script for this docu-series promoting a Showtime Pay-Per-View fight card. The event went on to sell 1.3 million buys.
Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II – International Pre-Show
I wrote the script for this docu-series promoting an HBO Pay-Per-View fight card, which generated 600,000 buys.
ANDERSON SILVA AND THE INEVITABLE AGONY OF THE FIGHTER
This was in June. After a long training session one morning, my Muay Thai class moved into the big room to spar. My friend (let’s call her Susan) and I began fighting. Nothing serious. We weren’t, like, unloading on each other. But when I tried to teep kick her in the solar plexus, Susan blocked [...]
LIFE AS THE REAL “LOCO” LUQUE
With a median household income hovering around $39,000, a population of roughly 240,000, and a drug war leaving decapitated heads strewn about like jack-o-lanterns on Halloween just over the border in Mexico, the small town of Laredo, Texas, feels stuck in some transitory phase, as if it were a half-conceived movie set transferred 250 miles [...]
Class Dismissed
It's not always easy to determine who's running the show at Nevada's largest university these days. Certainly some of UNLV's approximately 28,000 students are a little confused. "I know I write my tuition checks to them," says senior David Ahern, 25, of the Board of Regents, the statewide body elected to oversee Nevada's higher education [...]
The End Of Las Vegas
The room beamed with good intentions and positive thinking. So many ideas and innovations. You just had to believe. On Aug. 27, inside the Dialogue Center at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, the much-hyped $250 million beacon of alternative energy possibility, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid told the small group of concerned citizens and green business [...]
Metal School
Because it's unseasonably cold and powerful winds kick up dust and debris on this late April morning, the students at Canyon Springs High School don't linger as they head to their next class, or the cafeteria. Instead, small groups come together, long enough to gossip, tag the kid who dissed them earlier in the day, [...]