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Episode 1 of "On Freddie Roach" introduced us to the life of boxing's best trainer, a man who is hampered every day by the effects of Parkinson's disease. If the first episode was to be titled, it may have called "An Introduction". Keeping with the theme, the second episode would likely be dubbed "A Day in the Life", however, it wasn't just a normal day for Roach.

In the first episode, we didn't see too much of Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood. We saw him working with Amir Khan ahead of his fight against Zab Judah, and we followed Roach all the way to Khan's victory in Las Vegas. Almost the entire second episode, however, takes place at the gym. One might think that a high profile trainer like Roach would only concentrate on his big money, high profile fighters. And while its certain that Roach values those clients, he also runs his gym like an everyman.

We're introduced to the people that surround Roach's every day life. Shane "Canada" Langford is a trainer at the gym, and we see him overlooking two young fighters who are only deemed "boxers" because they're in a ring and wearing gloves. Then there's Roach's brother Pepper, and we learn that he, like Roach, was a fighter. At the outset of the episode, we learn from a Roach voiceover that his whole family grew up on fighting, namely because his father was one, both in and out of the ring. Freddie paints a grim picture of his familial upbringing, one in which he had to stick up for his mother who would get the biggest brunt of his father's beatings. Yet the family followed in their father's footsteps, and the tradition continues as Pepper continues to train fighters as well.

Source: Bad Left Hook

by pleasantview

Cranford, NJ (PRWEB) November 23, 2011

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by quirkyhill

In university, I lived mainly in the same Topshop tank top in four colours (coral, red, bright green and dark brown), paired with various skirts. Now that I am working, I own the same Zara blouse in four colours (white, fuchsia, orange and teal).

So you can see why this article struck a chord in me:

John Ortved

WOMEN shop, men stockpile. That’s one theory, anyway, of how men buy clothes differently from women. If women see shopping as an opportunity, a social or even therapeutic activity, the thinking goes, then men see it as a necessary evil, a moment to restock the supply closet.

At the risk of perpetuating sex stereotypes, the archetype may have been Steve Jobs. When Mr. Jobs died in October, he left behind not only a peerless legacy, but a closet full of identical black cotton turtlenecks by Issey Miyake. “If he loved a shirt, he’d order 10 or 100 of them,” his sister, the author Mona Simpson, said in her eulogy.

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