“Artillery is the god of war.” ~ Stalin The grave of Sonny Liston is located just south of the children’s section at Paradise Memorial Gardens in...
“Though the fury's hot and hard I still see that cold graveyard There's a solitary stone that's got your name on.” ~Elvis Costello, “Complicated Shadows” “LISTON”...
“An’ the dawn comes up like thunder…” ~ Rudyard Kipling Dick the Bruiser was built like the Hoover Dam. A former lineman for the Green Bay...
Black clouds gather fast and break over Forbes Field in Pittsburgh where Tommy Gibbons (51-0) and Harry Greb (159-12) are fighting like hell. It’s the last...
“Thunderstruck” by AC/DC blared as Manny Pacquiao made his way to the ring with his entourage. Two men who looked like giants walked behind him. On...
April 12, 1989. I was a teenager loitering in the lobby of the old Boston Arena on St. Botolph Street watching the ticket takers and looking...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is returning to the ring. It is divinely ordained. Many boxing aficionados are already scrambling for seats in the choir and clearing their...
Channeling Harry Greb To beat Floyd, you have to fight him with intelligent disdain and exploit his vulnerabilities –physically and psychologically. Sure, almost every one of...
Images appear like electric ghosts when the knob is pulled on the Philco console. Eventually white letters shimmy on the television screen -“Gillette Cavalcade of Sports”-...
“The eyes of Roberto Duran. There’s a sinister look there…. even now.” ~ Al Bernstein, 1989 On the evening of February 24, 1989 a thirty-seven year...