Tag Archives: Trey Sterling

January 24, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week continues our set of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss how he got into the game, the politics behind such programs as the PAL, or Police …

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January 17, 2020: Combat and Incarceration, Part One

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 40.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Louisiana DOC’s boxing program. For this episode, we discuss his thirty-five-year prison term that began in 1976 at the age of 17, and how coming …

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