This coming Oct. 30 is the 45th anniversary of the Ali-Foreman fight. Boxing has had its fair share of memorable fights across the decades, but few...
The Fourth Quarterly TSS Survey: Part One (A-K) — The question for our final survey of 2019 was not an easy one. “If you were to...
McFarland & Company publishes books about boxing on a regular basis. Some of them are solid works that contribute to the historical record of the sport....
A few weeks back, yet another newspaper sports column suggested boxing has deceased or is enduring its last rites. It’s easy to claim the sky is...
Mark Kram Jr, Author of a New Bio of Joe Frazier, Pays Homage to his Father When it comes to writing about sports, the Kram duo,...
There is a commonly accepted notion that “good things always come in threes.” The so-called “Rule of Three” principle suggests things that come in threes somehow...
“Smokin’” Bert Cooper, the Joe Frazier lookalike who patterned his own boxing style after that of his idol, mentor and former manager, was 53 when he...
Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the victory of the Mexican Army over the invading French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, has actually...
A few weeks ago, my TSS colleague Ted Sares polled a number of boxing notables as to which fight they would most like to have seen...
What goes around eventually comes back around? Well, not always. But there are certain long-separated, seemingly unconnected events that draw such distinct parallels that it can...