“He refused to take ‘no’ for an answer.” That comment, offered in praise of Les Moonves for the pivotal role the chairman and CEO of CBS...
Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown created a new template for athletes: competitors who were big, strong, and fast. They also heralded a more aggressive approach on...
Anyone who was on the job and watched them all would have put in a full eight-hour shift and been eligible for overtime pay.
Jermell Charlo defends his 154-pound WBC title against Austin Trout at the Staples Center on Saturday night in Los Angeles, but he’s not packaged as the...
Boxing fans want to believe that they’re watching greatness. And today’s omnipresent hype machine feeds that desire. “History isn't what it used to be,” Patrick Kehoe...
The early-shift bellman at the Row NYC Hotel, an avid boxing fan, was raving over what he’d seen the previous night on ESPN from a very...
We’re living in an age of vertical integration and corporate consolidation. The path to power in today’s economy lies through the merger of powerful economic interests.
Some observations on the St. Patrick’s Day fight card promoted by Top Rank. Irish Olympian Michael Conlan (the only Irishman on the card) was the big...
On March 13, 1993, two exceptionally talented and courageous light flyweights, Michael “Little Hands of Stone” Carbajal and Humberto “Chiquita” Gonzalez
Scott Quigg’s match with Carl Frampton in February of 2016 was a major event in the U.K. Abetted by a large contingent of Frampton supporters from...