Jake Lamotta
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America at Large: When ‘the nicest killer you could ever meet’ ran boxing
- Other Sports
- May 20, 2020, 19:00
The czar of boxing did not have an office. Frankie Carbo preferred to conduct business at his favorite table in the Garden Cafeteria just across Eight(...)

Paddy Considine: ‘I can’t remember the last big film I’ve seen that was any good’
- Film
- March 30, 2018
At first glance, Journeyman looks like another one of those appositely scrappy, noble British boxing films. Actor Paddy Considine’s second outing as a(...)

Former middleweight boxing champ who lived up to his Raging Bull name
- People
- September 30, 2017, 00:31
Jake LaMotta, who has died aged 95, is generally acknowledged as one of the toughest men to have entered a professional boxing ring – a world middlewe(...)

Boxing’s ‘Raging Bull’ Jake LaMotta dies in his 90s
- Other Sports
- September 20, 2017, 16:23
Jake LaMotta, the brutish former boxing champion whose life of violence in and out of the ring was portrayed in the movie Raging Bull died on Tuesday(...)

Matthew McConaughey: ‘I will never be my hero’
- Film
- February 3, 2017
Matthew McConaughey stretches out of his chair, stretches his arm out for a handshake and stretches back down in one long, languid movement. I’m wr(...)

Lance Armstrong just another fallen idol who’s become a tribute act of himself
- Other Sports
- September 30, 2016, 16:21
I know someone heading to Desert Trip next weekend, in Indio, California, a new three-day music festival which features a grand total of six artists: (...)

Darragh Ó Sé: Mayo know emotion won’t bring home Sam
- Gaelic Games
- September 7, 2016, 07:45
Like all washed-up former players, I look forward to All-Ireland finals far more now than I did when I was playing. During my career, if I wasn’t invo(...)

Grudge Match
- Film
- January 24, 2014
Remember the awful scene in Raging Bull in which Jake LaMotta, laid low by humiliation and despair, hammers his fists to pulp against the wall of a pr(...)

Raging calf Moore still has learning to do
- Rugby
- October 25, 2013, 09:00
According to playwright Diane Grant, it’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. I’m not sure Grant had power plays in p(...)

Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview
- Film
- September 20, 2013, 00:00
Ancient cannibalistic religions have less eccentric calendars than does the movie universe. The long run-in and dreary aftermath to Christmas d(...)