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June 10th, 2021 
Bad Brad 
RSR Press Release
From June 11th – June 22nd there will be no updates on Ringside Report. The RSR office is moving to a new location. As well, “Bad” Brad Berkwitt and Debbie are heading to Florida for his induction into the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame (June 18-20th) in Saint Petersburg, Florida. We will return to full updates on June 23rd. If you really miss us, check out the archives of the writers on the right side of the homepage…
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad 
By Geoffrey Huchel
The day my son, Ethan entered kindergarten in September of 2008 is still as fresh in my mind as if it was only yesterday. There he was flashing a half smile, wearing his Mickey Mouse t-shirt, and his back pack fastened over his shoulders, waiting with anxious uncertainty of what to expect. The bell rang and soon that group of young scholars slowly filed inside to start their school journeys. Ethan looked back at his mother, his grandmother, his aunt and me with a face of fright, knowing that for the first time we wouldn’t be with him as he entered a new phase of his young life. As strong as I thought I was being at that moment, I had to hold back tears, but they were tears of joy and of pride. I knew he’d be ok.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Nikki Slusher
Just a week before President Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland, the Russian leader made a strong statement by banning the opposition party led by Alexsei Navalny. During Pres. Biden’s address to US troops at the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, England, a Moscow court outlawed the organizations established by Russian opposition leader Alexsei Navalny. The courts labeled the groups as extremist in the latest move by Russian authorities to silence dissidents and ban critics of the Kremlin from running for parliament this September.
The Moscow court’s ruling is effective immediately. Its decision will prevent those associated with Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his vast network of regional offices throughout Russia from running for public office. Navalny’s allies were hoping he would run for a parliamentary seat in the upcoming election.
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June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Joyce Davis
Dear Democrats, what is going on with you guys? We are in the process of losing our democracy and some of you have not been speaking out and have not been putting up a fight. I am new to it all so I do not understand some things. I don’t understand how someone can call for a coup on a public setting and the entire Congress or Senate doesn’t erupt with outrage and both sides of the aisle, but especially Democrats. To be clear I am not referring to Michael Flynn who took the question I am referring to the man who actually asked the question and the audience that fiercely applauded him for his question. These people are making it clear that they will stand behind another coup attempt like what happened Jan 6th. Jan 6th was a coup attempt in which I also have questions about.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Joyce Davis
I know there has been talk for years concerning climate change. I knew that climate change was happening but I never really bought into all the things that I needed to do to protect the climate. I felt like as long as I didn’t do major things like pollute I was ok. I watched the movie Wallie and thought that it would be us someday. Earth will be ruined and we have no other choice but to head into space to protect our race. Other than that in my mind I am just one person and I don’t make an impact on climate change.
Then Covid happened and something remarkable took place. We had no choice but to all be in doors. Not just in one state or one country but all around the world. I saw so many pictures of how places that usually have smog were clear after two weeks of people staying in doors. I especially enjoyed how the animals were free to roam about because there were no aggravating humans to bother them. Earth got a well needed break from us. I propose a thought to you.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Nikki Slusher
Over the last few months, we have seen a lot of idiots walk through the Capitol’s doors as congressional members, but none have been quite as stupid as Rep. Louie Gohmert (Q-TX). I know some of you are going “but wait what about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert” and you aren’t wrong, they are tied for second place. It is Gohmert though that outdoes all of them to a whole other level of face palming every time her opens his mouth.
So, what did he do? Gohmert is simply asking questions. Questions like if the US government could change the rotation of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Ty Ross
1980’s Miami, an intersection of drugs, crime and violence. Lots and lots of violence. Mostly related to the booming drug business of the likes of Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar and America’s own cocaine king pin ‘Boston’ George Jung. Located at Florida’s tip with easy access to Latin & South America, Miami was as dangerous in the ‘80s as it was exciting.
But they cleaned things up. The bubble burst in the drug trade with the arrests of many of the top drug smugglers, and soon you could walk down the street without fear of being gunned down. Caught in the middle of a feud and shootout between rival drug cartels. By the ‘90s South Beach would become a mecca for the nouveau riche. Models, entertainers, designers like Gianni Versace were synonymous with Miami night life, glitz and glamour.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart
It was the longest running cop show on British TV. Over 2,000 episodes and over 20 seasons.
I attended workshops on directing in the theatre by one of the men who directed episodes of it and my son once performed alongside one of its principal stars.
It was an institution and when it was cancelled one of its actors almost ended up in an institution, so distraught was he at its ending.
The final program was an event. The final shot, one of the biggest and most complex of any televisual drama.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
Poem by Joyce Davis
“Bad” Brad Berkwitt you are amazing in so many ways
I’d like to take a moment in order to sing your praise
You are a man that doesn’t let life go idly by
You grab the bull by the horns and punch it in the eye
Honor, Courage, Commitment is an oath you took
Following in the steps of Alvin Berkwitt joined the Navy and was hooked
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad 
Fifth single from 24th album RE:VIEW available now
RE:VIEW album is rolled out as a series of singles
Steve Dorff / Gary Harju / Larry Herbstritt song blooms with optimism as the country emerges from pandemic lockdown
Stream “Fire In The Morning” music video
“It’s pretty – it’s a pretty video and it’s a pretty song.” So says GRAMMY® Award-winning, multi ACADEMY® Award-nominated singer/songwriter, Melissa Manchester, about the new remake of her 1980 hit. ““Fire In The Morning” is a lovely, mid-tempo ballad and, as we are coming out of this pandemic very slowly, it gave me a chance to not have a pandemic-centric video. The video was about reflection – and people can watch me struggle writing!” she giggles.
Originally released on Manchester’s 1975 album, Melissa, which lingered on the Billboard charts for 41 weeks, the classic hit was a slow burn that didn’t reach the Top 100 and Adult Contemporary singles charts until five years later.
June 10th, 2021 Bad Brad
RSR Press Release
SJC Boxing and Ringside Report wishes former boxing champion Mark Medal a happy 64th birthday today.
June 9th, 2021 Bad Brad
RSR Press Release
SJC Boxing and Ringside Report wishes boxing promoter and FHBOF Class of 2019 inductee Henry Grooms a happy 89th birthday today.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Joyce Davis
I was inspired to write this by reading an article by one of my colleagues Santino Corleone Berkwitt also known as the “Canine Columnist”. The article spoke of how Reality TV has somehow made us believe we should have access to every bit of people’s lives. As reality shows became popular, camera phones and YouTube became the way everyday individuals could feel like reality stars. The truth behind reality television is that most of it isn’t real. It is not like the movie The Truman Show where you are watching someone who is unaware of the camera and who is being recorded twenty-four hours a day. What we get are clips of them showing us what they think we want to see edited to be entertaining to the masses.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Joyce Davis
Today’s politics has a very strong us versus them feel. We no longer act like we are living in the United States but the divided states of America based on who you voted for. Our former President talked about red states and blue states. He would acknowledge when a red state did something he liked and condemn a blue state for what he would perceive as something he disliked. That way of doing things left us more divided than ever before.
I didn’t always pay attention to politics so I had no idea how the sausage was made and I really didn’t care how it was made, I just wanted it done. When Trump became president, I paid more attention to what was going on for fear that a civil war was coming. Although I didn’t watch the vote of the Republicans trying to take away the ACA merely because Obama did it, and they wanted to erase everything Obama did, I was aware that their plan was thwarted by one lone Republican John McCain. He was then bullied daily by Trump for not doing what the Republicans wanted. All he had to do was vote along party lines and the Republicans would have victory over the Democrats. Not America but Republicans would be victorious. McCain did not see things that way. He was more concerned about America and the millions of people who were benefiting from the ACA.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Joyce Davis
None of us are born alone. We have family units that teach us the ropes of being human. I have had some knockdown drag out fights with my siblings and no matter how much hatred I might have felt at the time I was instructed to get over it and hug and make up. This is what most of us are taught in our younger years. Then at some point we enter the arena of testing what we have learned when we go to school and meet other children. I have found that if you do not live with a person, the hug and makeup approach can be optional.
There is no obligation to get along because we do not live in the same household. We can ignore whomever irritates us by not speaking with them. Teachers try their best to combat this by making students makeup or sit together until you are friends again. Sometimes it works out. This is usually the grade school approach. Things change when you hit high school.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist
Did you really think I didn’t hear you?
Shame on you, Doctor Curmudgeon.
Well…that’s it!
I’ve had enough.
I’m taking over the column for this week before that messy little female doctor sits down to her computer.
Indeed I heard you, Doctor Curmudgeon. You were saying unkind things about me. I will not repeat your words here, because that would give them undue notice.
I suppose I have to identify myself first. Although, nobody bothered to give me a name to allow me to feel like a real member of this household. Even their car has a name! And that dumb looking old teddy bear has a name! (By the way, that stuffed bear sheds and I am always picking up after him)
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Ty Ross
There’s something eerie about Mississippi. A feeling that washes over you the moment you cross the state line. A feeling of being transported back to another, earlier, more oppressive time. One of blatant, unabashed racism, segregation and an overwhelming feeling that one can fall victim to an act of white supremacy at any time. A state where in some places, blacks still don’t look whites in the eye when speaking.
It’s reflected in the people, the economy, the infrastructure. Or lack thereof. In the abandoned buildings, and that despite having one of the largest percent of black residents than any other state, the African American population has remained, oppressed, depressed, segregated and all but shut out of the same state and local legislatures responsible for making the financial, educational, legal, judicial and social decisions that affect them disproportionately.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart
As I sit in my Kailyard I wonder often about the future.
In my hometown there is an Italian fast-food shop with a woman who has an enormous nose. Taking my stepson for food there was like an edition of jeopardy where you know the answer but are terrified about the question he would ask. Children saying things inappropriately are part of the joy of having them around… until they grow up.
When the grown ups speak, we hope that they shall never be inappropriate…
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Ty Ross
‘Guess what happened at work yesterday’ was a text I got from my oldest daughter this morning. She had just sent a text telling she made really good tips the night before, so I assumed she maybe had a celebrity customer who tipped her well or some crazy server stories from her restaurant. Nothing could have prepared me for what she was about to say.
When Kayla moved to Dallas six months ago, I was both excited and anxious. I have friends and family living in Dallas so I knew she wouldn’t be alone, but still. Having your child move 600 miles away to a city 4x the size is enough to make any parent worry.
But being the Rock Star she is, Kayla had three job interviews set up her first week, and a couple of apartment tours. A month later she’d be chilling in her apartment, fully employed and a full-time sophomore at a great local university.
June 8th, 2021 Bad Brad
(L) Steve Canton & Bobby Goodman
RSR Press Release
SJC Boxing and Ringside Report wishes boxing matchmaker and FBHOF Class of 2009 inductee Bobby Goodman a happy 82nd birthday today.
June 7th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Santino Corleone Berkwitt
I’m a friendly pup!! I love people and pups and I love to mingle. I am also genuinely concerned about others. I am always willing to help others out, and I will even share my favorite bone or treats with other pups. However, there is one thing that I won’t do. I won’t pry into other pups’ business.
With the popularity of “Reality TV”, many people in our society are totally wrapped up into the intimate details of other people’s lives. Reality television stars share every detail, every emotion, private moments, things that really should not be shared with the world. A part of me wonders if this is what drives neighbors, acquaintances, and coworkers to feel entitled to know the details of one another’s lives to the point that they speculate, inquire, or outright pry into others’ affairs. If the curiosity was focused on other people’s health or well-being, I could understand it to a degree. The problem is that it is usually directed to personal details of other people’s lives that don’t need to be delved into.
June 7th, 2021 Bad Brad
By Geoffrey Huchel
Actor Clarence Williams III, known for his role as Linc Hayes in THE MOD SQUAD (1968-1973) and his appearance in the feature film PURPLE RAIN (1984), died June 4, 2021, in Los Angeles, California after battling colon cancer. He was 81.
Clarence Williams III was born on August 21, 1939 in New York City, New York. He was the son of a professional musician, Clarence “Clay” Williams Jr. and the grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams.
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