Trying to fully unify a world championship in the fragmented arena of professional boxing – any world championship, in any weight class – is proving more...
They say that nothing lasts forever. They also say that records are meant to be broken. Those sentiments, though, seemed to be put aside in the...
You say this latest “Cold War” pitting Showtime and Golden Boy’s Richard Schaefer against HBO and Top Rank founder Bob Arum is basically a new twist...
“Based on a true story.” Hollywood packages many of its biographical movies in such a manner, but my experiences in covering the controversial aftermath of a...
Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, 19 for me ’Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the Taxman –Lyrics from a...
With disparate personal lives and similar professional aspirations, heavyweights Amir “Hardcore” Mansour and Steve “USS” Cunningham at least can agree on one thing. You don’t necessarily...
The Feb. 17 issue of ESPN The Magazine, like so many that preceded it, was largely devoted to a particular theme. In this instance, the cover...
There are no second acts in American lives. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Last Tycoon” Fitzgerald, just 44 when he died of a heart attack...
Saturday night’s HBO Boxing After Dark card in The Theater at Madison Square Garden is headlined, and appropriately so, by the 12-round matchup of WBO junior...
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that boxing is a sport that draws far more participants from the so-called wrong side of the tracks than from...