Anyone who has promoted boxing events understands that, metaphorically speaking, there is always a possibility of losing your shirt. Maybe that’s why during Butch Lewis’ heyday...
Richard Green, 46, suicide by handgun on July 1, 1983. Mitch Halpern, 33, suicide by handgun on Aug. 20, 2000. Toby Gibson, 61, suicide by carbon-monoxide...
I wasn’t in London’s 02 Arena last week for former cruiserweight champion David Haye’s impressive debut as a heavyweight, in which he knocked down Monte Barrett...
Now that his involvement with mixed martial arts is over, at least for the moment, Gary Shaw has gone back to his first and best love....
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree. —Samuel Coleridge Sadly, it has come to this for Evander Holyfield, proud warrior of so many epic...
When you stop and think about it, sports are inherently unfair, biased as they are against the short, slow, uncoordinated, paunchy and weak. Hey, we all...
Sports fans and historians require reference points to define potential, which is why up-and-coming athletes are so often compared to past greats. And if today’s hot...
Americans go to voting booths tomorrow to select our new President, a quadrennial exercise in liberty that can mean many things to many people, not the...
If the touching tale of Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Shaun Negler seems vaguely familiar, maybe it’s because it is. In “Pride of the Yankees,” the...
Home is the sailor, home from the sea — Robert Louis Stevenson PHILADELPHIA — IBF cruiserweight champion and Navy veteran Steve “USS” Cunningham was reflecting...