HAVE a confession to make. When I sit in press row with my brethren, I’m often hit with pangs of self-consciousness.
Laptops here, laptops there, laptops everywhere, except for yours truly, who leaves his at home and still covers shows for Boxing News with a pen and pad. Granted, I’m usually not on the very short deadline that some of the other reporters are, but anyone observing me might think they were caught in a time warp.
Which got me thinking about the many things which were routine in our sport back in the day, but whose relevance is no longer as great as it once was – if they even still exist at all.
In no particular order of importance, here are 20 of them:
