Monday, June 15, 2009 | 2:52 p.m.
NOW
The next time I hold a garage sale and nobody shows up I'm gonna blame it on a rib injury.
On June 5, a Web site devoted to boxing called Philboxing.com -- not Phil as in a guy's name or Phil as in the abbreviation for the 76ers in the NBA standings (although I guess that would be PHILA, according to the front of Hal Greer's old uniform) but Phil as in the Philippines -- reported that ticket sales were lagging for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez fight scheduled July 18 at the MGM Grand.
Golden Boy Promotions, according to the report, would announce in the next 2-3 weeks that one of the fighters had suffered an injury in training and the fight would be postponed.
Actually, it was more like nine days when Mayweather injured his ribs.
It had to be Mayweather who feigned -- I mean suffered -- the injury because anybody who has seen Marquez fight knows that he'd never pull out of one for any reason short of stepping on a land mine.
As for my garage sale, it's still on. The featured items are a print of "Dogs Playing Poker" and a bunch of weak excuses for calling off fights, which I'm selling for a dime a dozen.
THEN
I knew that Hal Green shot his free throws as he would a jump shot. I did not know that a 1 1/2-mile stretch of West Virginia Highway 10 in Huntington, home of his alma mater Marshall University, has been renamed "Hal Greer Boulevard" in his honor.
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