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I rarely agree with Steve Rosenbloom, and have regularly stated my case against cheap-shot journalism. But for once I agree with him.

Joe Frazier’s punch-drunk rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on July 29 is proof that there is nothing glamorous about boxing.

It has no place in a civilized society, and Rosenbloom rightly argues that it should be banned forever.