Thomas Hauser’s Notes and Nuggets: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and More Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Opera Company at Lincoln Center in New York mounted a...
Eric Griffin passed away a week ago Saturday (Oct. 7) at age 55 at a hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana. Griffin was no great shakes as a...
Two of boxing’s greatest blow-by-blow commentators were in the news last week. On Saturday night, Jim Lampley returned to the sweet science but in a role...
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,...
Fifty-nine years have elapsed since a native son of New Orleans returned to the city of his birth in the role of a defending world champion....
The fraternity of great athletes from the 1960s who shared a stage with Muhammad Ali keeps getting smaller. Ralph Boston, who died on April 30 at...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t a boxing fan. But she did something that no other British monarch ever did. She bestowed knighthood on a professional boxer. Now,...
NFL running backs Adrian Peterson and Le’Veon Bell face off Saturday night in the co-main event of Social Gloves 2 You see it at virtually every...
Harvey Araton Reflects on the Odd Coupling of Ali-Liston II and Lewiston, Maine It’s rarely the case, but in a few instances a heavyweight championship fight...
Mike Marley wore many hats during a career in boxing that began when he was 13 years old. At various times, Marley was a PR man,...