It has been said that it’s difficult, almost impossible even, to refute something you see with your own eyes. But the validity of the eye test...
Nothing Lasts Forever, Not Even Manny Pacquiao’s Exquisite Ring Career If there is one thing I’ve learned as a temporary passer-through during the millions and millions...
“I wanted to write about Muhammad Ali,” Wilfrid Sheed told me years ago when we were discussing the text that Sheed had written for an elaborate...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were two of the most charismatic and important people of the twentieth century. Five years ago, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith...
Boxing Odds and Ends: Notes on Teofimo Lopez, Manny Pacquiao, and Jarvis Astaire It appears that Teofimo Lopez’s world lightweight title defense against George Kambosos Jr...
Dave Kindred’s roadmap has taken him all over the world covering many of the grandest events in sports. Whether camped at the Masters, World Series, Super...
Music was the lifeblood of the youth culture when I was young. I came of age during the “Golden Age of Rock and Roll” and expanded...
“More than anyone else,” Kenneth Bridgham writes, “John Morrissey personified the links between sports, gambling, high finance, politics, and crime in nineteenth-century America.” That’s the theme...
It’s one thing to get to the top, but it’s something else entirely to remain there for more than half a century. Jerry Izenberg, longtime sports...
On February 25, 1964, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. defeated Charles “Sonny” Liston in Miami Beach over the course of six remarkable rounds to claim the heavyweight...