Sportizen: From Rebel Punk to a Revered Patriarch
Andy Jones  |  by sportizen.blogspot.com. All rights reserved. 10.11 | 17:09

By H Natarajan

Mike has a reputation of being a granite-tough taskmaster. He migrated to America at age 22, with $26 and about 28-word knowledge of English language.

An Olympic boxer who represented his native Iran, he was driven to make his son a top tennis player in the country he had adopted.

It was a dream that fuelled into a flaming passion even before he was married.

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