Two of the women whose purses were stolen yesterday expressed similar disbelief at the audacity of a crime in a place of worship.
From what I could piece together, the woman whose purse it was had been in recovery; there was an address book with NA meetings, lots of notes to herself, an NA keychain, and a lot more stuff I couldn't fit on the collage.
The winner, meanwhile – whose $50,000 purse was $42,000 bigger than anything he had earned in 30 previous fights over six years – was regarded with a mixture of awe and resentment for slaying the 5-1-on favourite and boxing's most charismatic star, albeit a fading version of the great man.
Ms. Mann also knew the right people to contact at the American Embassy in Spain to help a woman whose purse had been stolen in Majorca to make a noon flight in Barcelona.
"I was on an airplane, tucked into my seat, reading, and someone said, 'Will the lady whose blue purse is crushing my hat in the overhead compartment please get up and move it?' I was that lady".
Riboletta's owner, Aaron Jones, is paying $400,000 to get Riboletta into the Distaff race for fillies and mares, a race whose $2 million purse is just half that of the Classic.
Many New Jersey horsemen have been lured away by tracks in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ontario whose purses have been fattened by profits from slot machine parlors there.
After the fight, Tyson, whose purse for the bout was $8 million, also acknowledged that he had not trained much to prepare for Savarese.
HER PURSE Her purse was always a bone of contention between us — or her purses, actually.
