Literary Notes from Thomas Hauser Bernard Fernandez has written thousands of articles during his 55-year career as a sports journalist. Championship Rounds: Round 5 is the...
On October 17, Paramount Global announced that it was closing the Showtime sports department and shutting down the network’s boxing program after a 37-year run. Showtime...
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Whoever coined the phrase that “you can’t please ’em all” might have been referring to someone like Doug Blackburn, one of the rare dissenters in assessing...
Remembering the late Craig ‘Gator’ Bodzianowski, Boxing’s One-Legged Wonder It is a really old joke, so much so that you’d have to figure that Henny Youngman...
When ‘The Beast’ Ruled Boxing in Tampa A week from Sunday, the fifty-fifth Super Bowl will be played in Tampa, Florida. At various times, the city...
A TSS CLASSIC FROM THE THOMAS HAUSER ARCHIVE (2017) — Ferdie Pacheco, who died on November 16, was a doctor, author, artist, and television commentator. He’s...
You always hear that records are meant to be broken, but, barring a stunning change in national policy by a Communist country unwelcoming to outsiders, the...
For all the undeniably positive things that have happened in boxing in 2017, one of the best years for the sport in recent memory, there also...
Forty years ago? That’s how long it’s been since former undisputed heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali made his last successful defense of the title he won for...