Roach says Pacquiao can’t afford to lose with Mayweather fight still a possibility



By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach made a startling confession recently in an interview about his fighter Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. In an interview at 8countnews.com, Roach said “There’s no room for a loss right now. Mayweather’s still out there. People still want to see that fight. That’s the fight I want to see.” So are we to interpret this as meaning that Pacquiao won’t be put in a position where he can lose by being put in with someone that could actually beat him like WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, Paul Williams, Juan Manuel Marquez or Andre Berto? Is Pacquiao being fed stiffs until Mayweather appears for the big cash out fight?


Is that why we’re not seeing those fights? If I wanted to pick guys that I felt Pacquiao could...

RIYADH: An “inept” United States cannot fix Afghanistan’s problems and should simply focus on “chasing the terrorists” there, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said on Saturday.

Turki, also former ambassador to Washington, said the US-led Nato troop presence in Afghanistan has irrevocably alienated the Afghan people and has no hope of rebuilding the country.

“What Afghanistan needs now is a shift from nation-building to effectively countering terrorists,” Turki, the brother of Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, told a small audience in Riyadh.

He said US President Barack Obama “should not be misdirected into believing that he can fix Afghanistan’s ills by military means.”

“Hunt down the terrorists on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, arrest them or kill them, and get out, and let the Afghan people deal with their problems,” he said, adding: “As long as...