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New York Times: An Underground Boxer’s Struggle
March 20, 2015: Chris Cunningham stood wearing a white apron behind the checkout counter at Schaller & Weber, a butcher shop on the Upper East Side, ringing up a mink-draped customer. Under the rim of his crisp paper cap, Mr. Cunningham’s brow was visibly swollen, yet his smile was quick and generous — both products from the previous night’s championship bout at an illegal boxing club in an industrial section of the Bronx.
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New York Times: Breaking Away in Stages
Oct. 3, 2014 — Just across the George Washington Bridge, the 130-mile fourth leg of the East Coast Messenger Stage Race shifted from a tempered Tour-de-France-style endeavor to a frantic alley cat race. This year’s competition, the third, was divided into seven stages over nearly 600 miles from Washington to Boston, with no set route and no prize money at stake; it included 12 riders and ran from Sept. 20 to 26. Peter Madsen and the photographer Christopher Lee went along for the ride.