Great big news for DC boxing: Jim Finley is opening another gym.

Finley, 81, tells me he's setting up shop in the basement of his Temple Hills home.

"I got the heavy bags up," he says. "I'm getting the ring up. I'm not in a hurry, or on a timetable. But I'm going to do it."

Finley ran the best fight club this town has ever known. For 41 years before its 2001 closing, Finley's Gym sat upstairs from a body shop on Capitol Hill, and could count Bobby Foster, Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, and Sugar Ray Leonard among the world champs who laced 'em up there.

"Everybody who's someone in the fight game walked through Finley's doors," says Chris Ray, a cut man who knows the DC fight scene as well as anybody and is now helping Finley get going. "The man's an institution."

The boxing scenes in Burt Lancaster's 1973 thriller "Scorpio" were shot at Finley's Gym, also.

It wasn't only a place for champs and big names, however.

As the club was closing, DC-based superagent Jeff Fried, who has represented Sharmba Mitchell, Sugar Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather, explained why the loss of Finley's Gym was huge.

"The image of boxing is now Las Vegas marquees and pay-per-view stars," said Fried. "But what people forget is, places like Finley's gym are where they all started. I always loved walking in there and seeing champions and also seeing 16-year-old kids with the big eyes, thinking about what could be, the old guys helping the younger guys, the whole cycle of life, right there in front of you."

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As first rumored on DCRTV, Brian Mitchell has been let go by sportstalk station WTEM-AM.

That means Mitchell's now ex-employer was Dan Snyder.

The same guy has fired the same guy before.

In 2000, Snyder's first offseason of running the Redskins, Mitchell, the team's all-time punt return and kickoff return leader, was let go.

In Thom Loverro's 2007 book, Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins, Mitchell insinuated he got run out of town because he was disliked by Snyder's favorite Redskin, Darrell Green.

That's sorta interesting again, because the owner's pet these days, Clinton Portis, got in a big to-do over the airwaves with Mitchell last year over things the host said about his attitude and play.

Portis and Snyder were recently spotted dining together at N9NE Steakhouse in Vegas.

Vegas!

And now Snyder banishes Mitchell again!

Hmmm.

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