It’s reasonable to presume that no one paid for tickets to see the New York Yankees in the 1920s so that they could watch future Hall...
By BERNARD FERNANDEZ ✅ It is cruelly ironic, when you stop and think about it. Mills Lane, one of the best and most accomplished referees...
By BERNARD FERNANDEZ They are, or were, superbly conditioned athletes, adept at moving quickly, hitting hard and taking risks. For some, the risk-taking part is merely...
By BERNARD FERNANDEZ In this pivotal year in American politics, a power struggle of sorts with presidential-primary-type overtones is brewing in Philadelphia boxing. It involves two...
Patterson-Johansson Rubber Match – The Capstone to a Lusty Trilogy – Neither man’s name is apt to be found on anyone’s top 10 list of the great...
Khurtsidze Steals the Show – BETHLEHEM, Pa. Let us make one thing perfectly clear to American boxing fans who, until Saturday night, might have been totally unaware...
Leonard’s Final Swan Song – In offering his opinion for a 2013 story I did for The Ring magazine on why so many boxers can’t let go...
Omaha Flash Invades – Great athletes? Oh, sure, Omaha has produced quite a few. There’s Bob Gibson, the Hall of Fame righthander for the St. Louis Cardinals...
James Toney vs Dave Tiberi Fight – Dave Tiberi has never seen “Rob Roy,” the 1995 movie about the head of an 18th-century Scottish clan with...
RICHIE GIACHETTI – Part of the appeal of boxing always has been its clique of rowdy, raucous, wrong-side-of-the-track guys. “Damon Runyon” characters, they were called, when...