Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I remember this episode. My son and I watched it 43346643 times. Elmo was pushed to his limit that day by a pet rock. Edge of your seat tension. 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Please consider participating in, or sharing, this important study at CBU 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Some mornings the bar is low. Just this morning I was thinking "I've published far worse stuff than this" as I read over a piece I've been struggling with and caught myself smiling. Here's a celebratory Willem Dafoe for everyone. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Probably time to tell folks I found the Oak Island treasure when I was out fishing with my Nana in 1992. Didn't realize everyone was still looking. Guess that's my bad. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Straight shot from here to Ireland. Not a bad spot to catch the bus to @smuarts.bsky.social. Morning chat with the sea birds is essential. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Finally a couple consecutive days of spring weather. View from the the Woodsode ferry terminal. A perk of working at @smuarts.bsky.social 011
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The igloo is overflowing for the mainland senior hockey final. Truro leads East Hants 3-1 in the third. This is the best senior hockey there's been in NS for decades. 020
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Overtime for the national USports men's hockey championship between SMU and UQTR. 2-2 after three periods. 😬 I'm stressed. Wicked stressed. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 29/01/2026A 1906 film of George Dixon boxing with a fellow named Chester Leon for the mutoscope. Dixon of Halifax, NS, was the first Black champion of the world. How much of this bout is staged for the camera is difficult to say. What do you think of this knockdown? 200
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 19/01/2026George Paris of Truro, Nova Scotia, as he appeared before facing Joe Grim in 1908. Paris was working as an instructor at the Vancouver Athletic Club at the time of the bout. They fought 15 rounds to a draw at Recreation Park in North Vancouver, where a grandstand was erected for the occasion. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 18/01/20261976 Olympian Bryan Gibson of Kentville, Nova Scotia 🥊 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Raymond Downey of Halifax greets local fans after winning 🥉 at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He lost to Park Si-hun in the semis by dubious decision. Park won by worse decision over Roy Jones Jr. for 🥇. These Olympics were grim, marked by corruption, child abuse, internment camps, and mass displacement. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 16/01/2026In 1959, Yvon Durelle (dark trunks) of Baie-Sainte-Anne, New Brunswick, took on George Chuvalo for the Canadian heavyweight title. Durelle was 105 fights into his career and gave up 8 years and 24 lbs to Chuvalo. The bigger, younger Chuvalo knocked Durelle down four times and won by stoppage. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 06/01/2026OTD in 1888, John L. Sullivan sent a letter to the Boston Herald detailing his adventures abroad. He was infamous for ducking George Godfrey of Charlottetown, drawing the colour line time and again. In this letter, he contiuned to evade his top contender. * Maritime Boxing History on Facebook. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The world lost George Dixon today in 1908. The most important athlete to come out of Canada. Check out Maritime Boxing History on Facebook. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 05/01/2026News reports from the 1950s rarely told us what boxers made for their efforts. Here is Keith Paris' contract to face Tony Veranis in 1957. Paris was from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. 000
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Buddy Daye, a champion in and out of the ring. Few Nova Scotians gave so much to the province. He was a fighter and activist, very involved in the Black United Front and NS Human Rights Commission. He's now memorialized via a street and learning institute. He won the 🇨🇦 title in this 1964 fight. 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Wasn't even looking for "cheese champ" and saw this. What the heck is a cheese champ? Someone who is stale maybe? Not testing themselves? 200
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Me, down here at the shore, watching to see how the FIFA boosters in Canada react to the FIFA Peace Prize winner abducting another head of state. 020
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Comic books are such a great way to communicate history. Here's Sam Langford of Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, and his struggles with Jack Johnson! In and out of the ring. Published by Sport Thrills in 1951. 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Bald guy named Mac is by far the best character in Predator. Not surprising. 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 01/12/2025There weren't a ton of featherweights around Eastern Canada in the 1960s. Here's Art Hafey (left) of Stellarton and Angus Martin of Baie St. Anne meeting each other for the third time in just over a year. Art won this meeting in Fredericton in 1969, squaring them up at 1-1-1 for the trilogy. 030
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Helping out a documentarian tomorrow re: boxing in history of Pictou County. Here's Percy Paris (right) of New Glasgow meeting former lightweight champ Beau Jack in January 1949. This was in Boston where both guys had just won bouts. (Clipping from the Clarion, 26 Jan 1949) 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Home opener for the Island View High Devils tonight against Sackville. Might have to head over. 010
Mac Ross @punchingprof.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Day two of the strike. Great turn out in support of part-time faculty at Saint Mary's University. Solidarity to those also striking at Mount Saint Vincent University. ✊🏻 @cupe3912.bsky.social #smu 064
