Steve Lott, who was an occasional roommate of Mike Tyson during Tyson’s amateur and early pro days and then an important cog of Team Tyson through...
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY — In the 1982 MGM comedy film “My Favorite Year,” a young production assistant is charged with the responsibility of...
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...
It isn’t a stretch to say that the Mayweather Boxing Club is a Las Vegas landmark. Regardless of one’s feelings toward Floyd — and he certainly...
Sept. 6 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of former heavyweight contender Buster Mathis, who was 51 when he took his earthly 10-count in 1995....
On Aug. 17, 1960, the first of five planeloads of U.S. Olympians arrived in Rome. The boxers came with the first wave because boxing would be...
Pete Hamill was one of my heroes. It pains me to write that the legendary journalist died today, Aug. 5, at age 85. Hamill grew up...
Pete Rademacher, who won a gold medal in the heavyweight class at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics but would be best remembered for his “freak fight” with...
As a teenager, Teddy Atlas was a troublemaker. One could have predicted that he would grow into a man who would get thrown out of places....
In Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston, a remarkable 90-minute documentary on the rise and fall of former heavyweight champion Charles “Sonny” Liston, viewers...