At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, he rode the bobsled run with members of the U.S. hockey team's 1980 Olympic upset of the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, N.Y. He also covers motor sports in the Bay Area and wrote about the America's Cup regatta in San Francisco in 2013, during which Oracle Team USA made one of the greatest comebacks in sports history to beat Emirates Team New Zealand.Īmong the many momentous games he has covered were the 49ers' victory over Dallas in the 1982 NFC Championship Game, which featured "The Catch'' by Dwight Clark, and the U.S. He also covers men's and women's basketball and many other Stanford sports. Tom FitzGerald has been the Stanford beat writer for The San Francisco Chronicle since 2009. Returning to full-time training wasn't hard, he said, because he had stayed in reasonably good shape "to relieve stress and clear my mind." His life has changed, though. If Guerrero gets past Arrieta, the 5-foot-8 fighter hopes someday to land a title shot against Juan Manuel Marquez and maybe even Manny Pacquiao. I can't be at this fight, but I'll be at the next fight." "I go to the hospital three times a week for checkups. "I'm feeling good right now," she said on the phone from Gilroy. She wears a mask whenever she's outside and can't eat raw fruit or vegetables. She's due to get a bone marrow biopsy at Stanford on Friday. In boxing you've got to give 100 percent, and I couldn't do that."Ĭasey, 26, won't be able to attend the fight because her health is still fragile. I wanted to make sure everything was well at home. It was going to be tough to fight that way. It was a case of not being mentally stable and focusing on the fight. "It was going to be the biggest fight of my career," he said. Stepping away when he did this year might have cost him "well over $100,000," but Casey, who was undergoing chemotherapy, and the kids, Savannah, now 5, and Robert Jr., 3, needed him at home, he said. He had vacated his featherweight title (which he held twice) in 2008 to move up to junior lightweight. 22, beating Malcolm Klassen to win the junior lightweight title. card will not be shown live on the West Coast it will be shown on TeleFutura, a Spanish-language network, at 11:30 p.m. He'll take a 25-1-1 record (with 17 knockouts) into Friday night's fight against 34-year-old Roberto Arrieta (34-15-4, 15 KOs) of Argentina at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. She recently got out of Stanford University Medical Center after a stay of more than a month. In the meantime, Casey has made great strides. But they said it wasn't a surprise that Guerrero did it. The boxing people close to the 27-year-old southpaw from Gilroy couldn't remember another boxer who had made a similar sacrifice. In boxing, where major paydays can be few and far between, the move was unusual. In other professions, nobody blinks when the breadwinner takes one for his family. Knowing he needed to be with his wife and their two young children through her ordeal, he dropped out of the fight. Two months ago, her husband, the International Boxing Federation junior-lightweight champ, was scheduled for a huge payday in a World Boxing Organization title bout with Michael Katsidis.īut "The Ghost" decided to get real. She had a couple relapses before receiving a bone-marrow transplant from an unknown European donor in January 2009. In reality, it's a little hard to be in two places at once, a point that was pounded home for Guerrero after his wife, Casey, was diagnosed in 2007 with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |