The U just looks faster than ever -- look out Top 10!
Holding down the 305, Miami whooped that Georgia Tech ass tonight 33-17. Canes are looking better than they have in a long time. I can go to bed and rest happy tonight.
But before I do, I'd like to talk about "Tyson," the documentary. I watched it the other night and it got the jshox whooping and hollering and even a bit weepy. I mean, the dude was knocking grown men out at the age of 19, 20, and yet he had no one on his side for real advice when his only mentor in life, and boxing coach, Cus D'Amato, died in 1985 at 77 before Mke Tyson won the heavyweight title.
D'Amato was the first and last positive force in Tyson's life and the former heavyweight boxer isn't afraid to admit in this documentary culled from about 80 hours of taped interviews. When Iron Mike cries, jshox gets teary eyed too.
"Madness, the chaos of the brain," says Tyson about the ferociousness D'Amato taught him to use in the ring and pulverize opponents. Oh, and "speed kills."
As a 14-year-old, Tyson knocked a kid out in just 14 seconds in a junior championship match: "There's nothing like when you're young and having fun."
Tyson became a knock-out master. When throwing a punch, he explains that he pictures his fist going through the back of his opponent's head. Sure, it sounds brutal, he says, but there's an art form to the accuracy of deadly precision.
When Tyson won the heavyweight title, he did so by knocking out Michael Spinks in about 90 seconds. It's kind of hard to tell where the last punch landed, but after a couple of watches you can tell it didn't matter if it had been the solar plexus or or the left eye or a grazing of the bottom jaw. Knockout.
I won't give away everything about the movie, but Tyson admits more than once that skyrocketing fame and fortune were too much for a very young person to handle when the only mentor around is a blood-sucking leach like Don King.
We all know about the rape conviction, the ear bite (although Tyson makes a convincing case for his frustration and anger toward Holyfield for two consecutive fights of illegal headbutting), and the crazy tattoos, though they don't seem so crazy long before the credits roll.
Despite Tyson's transgressions, you'd be cold not to sympathize with him for at least few moments during this 90-minute confessional. He appears to be focused on being a father and putting his mistakes behind him. And he says it well, even with that famous lisp.
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