Forty years ago (August 31, 1969) on the eve of his 46th birthday he was killed in a plane that crashed over a desolate field in...
“….we got a thing goin’ on…” The first time I laid eyes on Roy Jones Jr. was on NBC’s Sportsworld. It was a Sunday afternoon twenty...
You’ve got to love the nickname. Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., doesn’t hide what inspires him to fight. It’s a measurement, a figure, the guy with the...
In the end, neither Juan Urango nor Tavoris Cloud may prove to be stars but last Friday night in Hollywood, Fla. both proved to be what...
Freshly anointed with plenty of sweat and no unnecessary blood or tears, new WBO cruiserweight titlist Marco Huck isn't the type to relax upon his latest...
So this is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” “The Hollow Men,” a 1925 poem written...
“Listen, I got a story for ya!” Anthony (Rip) Valenti sounded excited, but that wasn't unusual. Every time the octogenarian boxing promoter called to relay the...
Most of you have probably heard the story now, that Ricky Hatton cried when former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali showed up at his gym in the...
Randy Couture is the poster boy for refusing to age gracefully. He craves competition, and the world doesn’t contain a 46-year-old man that could handle The...
LOS ANGELES-Abner Mares returned to form and put on a show for his friends, fans and a television audience. It was all Abner in a near-perfect...