“Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse” is a 1950s mantra often, and wrongly, attributed to actor James Dean, star of Rebel Without a...
The best advertisement for a newly released movie – any product, actually – is not television commercials or print ads in newspapers and magazines. It is...
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There are moments in life when you feel as if you somehow have been transported back to an event or an occasion that always will hold...
Tyson Fury lay in the ring like the Pietà in still life. Deontay Wilder’s right hand put him there, one of a scant few he didn’t...
It is eerily prophetic that when former boxer John Fury’s tiny son came into the world on Aug. 12, 1988, in Manchester, England, three months prematurely...
“Excuse me, Holyfield, but I am the real deal, too.” Deontay Wilder is a fascinating individual, so there’s never a shortage of reflection-worthy material available after...
They are, by consensus, the two greatest fighters in the 39-year history of the largely ignored cruiserweight division. Evander Holyfield, who already held the IBF and...
The late Ralph Kiner, who could hit the long ball but wasn’t particularly adept at anything else on a baseball field, led the National League in...
TD GARDEN — It’s a good thing Eddie Hearn didn’t listen to the people who told him not to promote prizefighting in Boston. With all four...