Gary Smith is this generation’s most decorated and distinctive magazine writer after winning an unprecedented four National Magazine Awards for non-fiction and being a finalist for...
Nigel Collins had his first byline boxing story appear more than five decades ago and is still going strong. There have been many changes since that...
It seems all along that Norm Frauenheim was destined to become a boxing writer. Two critical elements were at play that led the 75-year-old scribe to...
Rejected by every college and university he applied to except one, Gay Talese is one of the most celebrated and decorated American writers over the last...
Don Stradley’s path to becoming a writer wasn’t typical, but it didn’t stop him from penning several well-received books, mostly on boxing, and authoring lively and...
If one had the ability to construct a prototypical New York City boxing writer, it would be in the mold of Wally Matthews. This observation was...
A masterful storyteller, Lance Pugmire spent nearly two decades covering sports for the Los Angeles Times. He is the most-recent recipient of the prestigious Nat Fleischer...
Boxing’s long and glorious list of legendary welterweights is studded with some of the biggest names in the history of the sport. On Saturday night at...
Two lives unknowingly became intertwined on February 25, 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center when Cassius Clay faced the reigning heavyweight champion Charles “Sonny” Liston,...
Nestled in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, Steve Springer, a former sportswriter who for nearly 35 years covered several sports including the world of boxing, is at...