{"id":169,"date":"2015-10-23T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/sports-demo\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:49:16","slug":"unbeaten-heavyweight-luis-ortiz-to-fight-bryant-jennings-on-dec-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/goodsports\/2015\/10\/23\/unbeaten-heavyweight-luis-ortiz-to-fight-bryant-jennings-on-dec-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbeaten heavyweight Luis Ortiz to fight Bryant Jennings on Dec. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #111;font-size: 24px;line-height: 34px\">The HBO boxing season has a <strong>good chance<\/strong> to end the year with a bang. <strong>Heavyweight<\/strong> knockout artist Luis Ortiz and top contender <em>Bryant Jennings<\/em> will meet in a toss-up fight Dec.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ortiz&#8217;s promoter, Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy, and Jennings&#8217; promoter, Gary Shaw, made the deal Wednesday, just days after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">Ortiz scored a one-sided, third-round knockout<\/span><\/span> of Matias Ariel Vidondo to win a vacant interim title Saturday night at New York&#8217;s Madison <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Square Garden on the Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux<\/span><\/em> undercard.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz&#8217;s<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\"> interim title will be on the line against<\/span><\/span> Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>Top Rank has the opening fight on the telecast (10:15 p.m. ET\/PT) and made a 10-round <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">junior lightweight bout between former featherweight<\/span><\/strong> titlist Nicholas &#8220;Axe Man&#8221; Walters, <del>who is moving up in weight<\/del>, and big puncher Jason Sosa.<\/p>\n<h4>Our new weapons beneath the skins which formed<\/h4>\n<p>His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab&#8217;s leg, as a mower a blade of grass<\/span><\/strong> in the field. No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice. Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite hole on this <a href=\"#\">golf course<\/a> is the reachable par-4 15th. The reason I love it is because of how many times you walk off with a par or worse and you beat <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">yourself up for not playing it a different way<\/span><\/strong> off the tee than what you originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re wondering why there two pictures of the same hole? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Great question, easy answer, but you&#8217;ve got to wait for it.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0PGA Tour pros have to decide whether or not to go for the green. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two factors will come into play here.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, where&#8217;s the wind? Check that compass reading!<\/p>\n<p>For a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">right-hander who likes to hit a draw<\/span><\/span>, a wind from the <a href=\"#\">northwest<\/a> should <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">make you talk your player<\/span><\/em> into laying up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/goodsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/Sport-Slider-Baseball-Slide-640x450-2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-125 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/goodsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/Sport-Slider-Baseball-Slide-640x450-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Browne Sanders made up her allegations against Thomas<\/h3>\n<h4>The Money Quotes via Ben Golliver<\/h4>\n<p>I think they perceived that nothing was to be done for the present, and had gone away to breakfast at Henderson&#8217;s house. There were four or five boys sitting on the edge of the Pit, with their feet dangling, and <del>amusing themselves&#8211;until I stopped them<\/del>&#8211;by throwing<del><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> stones at the giant mass. After I had spoken to them about it, they<\/span><\/del> began playing at &#8220;touch&#8221; in and out of the group of bystanders. Among these were a couple of cyclists, a <a href=\"#\">jobbing gardener<\/a> I employed sometimes, a girl carrying a baby, Gregg the butcher and his little boy, and two or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">There was very little talking. Few of the common people<\/span><\/span> in England had anything but the vaguest astronomical ideas in those days. Most of them were staring quietly at the big table like end of the cylinder, which was still as Ogilvy and Henderson had left it.<\/p>\n<p>I fancy the popular expectation of a heap of <a href=\"#\">charred corpses<\/a> was disappointed at this inanimate bulk. Some went away while I was there, and other people came. I clambered into the pit and fancied I heard a faint movement under my feet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"styled normal\"><p>Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can&#8217;t help them, at least don&#8217;t hurt them.<cite>DALAI LAMA<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was only when I got thus close to it that the strangeness of this object was at all evident to me. At the first glance it was really no more exciting than an overturned carriage or a tree blown across the road. Not so much so, indeed. It looked like a rusty gas float. It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><del>common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack<\/del><\/span> between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue.<\/p>\n<h3>Soon the crew came on board in two<\/h3>\n<p>Dorothy&#8217;s life became very sad as she grew to understand that it would be harder than ever to get back to Kansas and Aunt Em again. Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her<\/strong><\/span> face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress. Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the <a href=\"#\">Silver Shoes<\/a> which the girl always wore. Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost. She watched <a href=\"#\">Dorothy<\/a> carefully, to see if she ever took o<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">ff her shoes, thinking she might steal them. But the child was<\/span><\/span> so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare<\/span><\/span> go in Dorothy&#8217;s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing. Indeed, the old Witch never touched water, nor ever let water touch her in any way.<\/p>\n<p>But the wicked c<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">reature was very cunning, and she finally thought<\/span><\/em> of a trick that would give her what she wanted. She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes. So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length. She was not much hurt, but in her fall one of the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Silver Shoes came off; and before she could reach it<\/em><\/span>, the Witch had snatched it away and put it on her own skinny foot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/goodsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/Sport-Slider-Baseball-Slide-640x450-2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-124 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/goodlife.wpthemestudios.com\/goodsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/Sport-Slider-Baseball-Slide-640x450-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a <a href=\"#\">good many voices<\/a> all talking together: she made out the words: &#8216;Where&#8217;s the other ladder?\u2014Why, I hadn&#8217;t to bring but one; Bill&#8217;s got the other\u2014Bill! fetch it here, lad!\u2014<del>Here, put &#8217;em up at this corner<\/del>. No, tie &#8217;em together first\u2014they don&#8217;t reach half high enough yet\u2014Oh! they&#8217;ll do well enough; don&#8217;t be particular\u2014Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope\u2014Will the roof bear?\u2014Mind that loose slate\u2014Oh, it&#8217;s coming down! Heads below!&#8217; (a loud crash)\u2014&#8217;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Now, who did that?\u2014It was Bill, I fancy\u2014Who&#8217;s to go down the chimney?<\/span><\/span>\u2014Nay, I shan&#8217;t! YOU do it!\u2014That I won&#8217;t, then!\u2014Bill&#8217;s to go down\u2014Here, Bill! the master says you&#8217;re to go down the chimney!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh! So Bill&#8217;s got to come down the chimney, has he?&#8217; said Alice to herself. &#8216;Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn&#8217;t be in Bill&#8217;s place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but I THINK I can kick a little!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She drew her foot as far <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">down the chimney as she could, and waited till<\/span><\/span> she heard a little animal (she couldn&#8217;t guess of what sort it was) scratching and <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">scrambling about in the chimney close above<\/span><\/strong> her: then, saying to herself &#8216;This is Bill,&#8217; she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HBO boxing season has a good chance to end the year with a bang. Heavyweight knockout artist Luis Ortiz and top contender Bryant Jennings will meet in a toss-up fight Dec. 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