Mike Tyson’s reign of terror in the heavyweight division began on March 6, 1985 at the Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York, when he flattened...
Buster Drayton, who died this past weekend at age 70, was an old-school fighter. That’s a label that can be interpreted several ways, but old-school fighters,...
Lightweight Contender Jamaine Ortiz: Keeping Worcester Mass on the Boxing Map The city of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts is already on the boxing map....
It is human nature, one supposes, to categorize people as members of easily identifiable groups. As far as pet preferences go, there are dog people and...
Boxing, baseball, college football and horse racing once ruled the American sports landscape. Of course, that was in the 1940s and 1950s when men wore suits...
Ponder this for just a moment: Jerry Izenberg has written about sports for seventy-one years. No, this isn’t a misprint. Behind a righteous conscience, a clear...
Bob Arum Perseveres as Many of His Old Stomping Grounds Bite the Dust Someone once said that the only constant in life is change. That goes...
As a young boy growing up in Italy, Guido Vianello’s first sport was tennis. His parents own and manage one of Rome’s leading tennis academies. But...
There is a nationwide shortage of high school sports officials. It’s a problem that was brewing before the pandemic drove many longtime officials to leave the...
Sunday, March 13, marked the first anniversary of the death of Marvelous Marvin Hagler who was 66 when he passed away at his home in Bartlett,...