Denver boxer Mike Alvarado will fight Ghana-born Ray Narh in Las Vegas on the May 7 undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley championship bout at the MGM Grand, promoter Top Rank said Monday.
Alvarado’s junior welterweight fight will open the televised part of the pay-per-view card. His late addition is a reprieve of sorts, after he backed out of a scheduled April 16 fight against Vernon Paris in Puerto Rico because of an injured biceps.
The 30-year-old Alvarado (29-0, 21 KO’s) last won Feb. 19, a lopsided knockout of England’s Dean Harrison in Las Vegas. The 32-year-old Narh (25-1, 21 KO’s) fights out of Pittsburgh and was a member of Ghana’s Olympic team in 2000. Narh last won March 4, a unanimous decision over Freddie Norwood in Florida.
Top Rank added the fight to replace a lightweight bout between Humberto Soto and Urbano Antillon.
CSU saluting Morris.
Seventy-five years after Glenn Morris won the Olympic decathlon at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, the former Colorado State three-sport athlete and student body president will be honored Friday when CSU officially renames its field house after him.
The ceremony, open to the public, begins at 11:30 a.m. at the field house on the east side of the campus.
Morris was raised on several farms in the Simla area before attending CSU, then known as Colorado A&M. He was a star end in football and broke several records in track and field, and graduated in 1935. He did much of his Olympic training on the Fort Collins campus. When he won the decathlon in Berlin, he set world and Olympic records. He beat out multiple gold medalist Jesse Owens for that year’s Sullivan Award as the nation’s top amateur athlete.
Morris returned to Colorado a hero and was honored with several fetes across the state, including a ticker-tape parade in Denver. He briefly tried pro football with the Detroit Lions, played Tarzan in a movie, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, settled in California and died at age 61 in 1974. Terry Frei, The Denver Post
Wyoming signs GW’s Marshall.
George Washington’s Tyrone Marshall, a 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward, signed a letter of intent with Wyoming to play basketball for the Cowboys.
Marshall averaged 15 points, nine rebounds and six blocked shots last season.
