Bobby Goodman died on Sunday, March 5, at age 83. That’s a loss for boxing. Goodman’s family personified the American immigrant experience of an earlier time....
Mike Tyson’s reign of terror in the heavyweight division began on March 6, 1985 at the Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York, when he flattened...
R.I.P. Jerry Pellegrini, Last Vestige of a Golden Era of Boxing in New Orleans The showdown that the boxing world is most anxious to see, Errol...
When Hall of Fame boxing writer Bernard Fernandez set about compiling his anthology (Championship Rounds, published in 2020) he had some hard decisions to make. During...
Bob Halloran was 87 years old when he passed away on Sunday, Jan. 2, in Rancho Mirage, California. With him, another remnant of the Muhammad Ali...
Over the course of five-decades-plus, Leigh Montville has delivered books on the careers of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Dale Earnhardt, Jim Calhoun, Manute Bol, Evel Knievel,...
Shawn Porter was stopped in the 10th round by Terence Crawford this past Saturday in Las Vegas. The decision to stop the fight wasn’t made by...
Former world welterweight champion Tony DeMarco, inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame with the class of 2019, passed away late last night at Massachusetts...
Whoever coined the phrase that “you can’t please ’em all” might have been referring to someone like Doug Blackburn, one of the rare dissenters in assessing...
A Philosophy Professor and a Boxing Coach, Gordon Marino Wears Dissimilar Hats Academia and scholarship are prim and proper and generally take place in ivy-covered brick...