RENO, Nev. — It isn’t every day Joey Gilbert’s name is uttered In the same breath as Jack Johnson’s. Apart from the fact that they both...
A few months ago I came across a pre-publication excerpt of Bernice McFadden’s new novel Glorious in “Renaissance Black Noire, a literary magazine published by New...
Yuri Foreman, who had come to Yankee Stadium with a well deserved reputation as one of the nicer fellows ever to lace on boxing gloves, demonstrated...
NEW YORK — Miguel Cotto won a 9th-round TKO when a gimpy Yuri Foreman was unable to maintain his footing. The Puerto Rican star captured Foreman’s...
NEW YORK — According to my friend Roy Blount, Jr., the musician Jerry Jeff Walker, back in his drinking days, had a predilection for getting himself...
NEW YORK – Given what we know of the way these matters are handled under the Patriot Act, the wonder shouldn’t be that it took Amir...
I wasn’t even in Atlantic City on the night of March 15, 1996. Mike Tyson was fighting Frank Bruno in Las Vegas the following evening, and...
Nothing about Lucian Bute’s showing at the Bell Centre Saturday night will discourage the notion that the world’s best practicing168-pounder is not to be found among...
MONTREAL, Quebec – The folks at Showtime who have been crowing for the past three weeks about the extraordinary effect of Andre Dirrell’s upset victory over...
SUNRISE, Fla. — Andre Berto was Fighting for Haiti. Riding the crest of that emotion, the 26-year old welterweight champion was able to overcome an 11-month...