Article: Max Kellerman's Ever-Growing Canvas.

By Ben Grossman

HBO boxing expert has come a long way from local-access TV

Many successful sportscasters have one thing in common: When they were teenagers, they used to turn down the sound on the TV during a game and practice by pretending they were the play-by-play announcer.

Max Kellerman wasn't that patient.

Growing up a big boxing fan in New York's Greenwich Village, he used to watch a public-access boxing show called Boykin on Boxing . Barely old enough to drive, Kellerman asked his dad why he couldn't do one of those shows.

So Kellerman applied for a slot and by the time he was 16, he was hosting the program, which was ...

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