JERRY IZENBERG’S “Once There Were Giants”: — Anyone who saw the great 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray, might recall what Jamie Foxx, who won the...
EDWIN POPE DIES AT 88 — There are some stories that I never wanted to write, and this is one of them. One of the finest...
ALI — Last year, I was involved in the making of a documentary entitled Muhammad Ali: A Life that will be televised by Epix on January...
KLITSCHKO vs JOSHUA — No matter what happens when he faces Anthony Joshua this spring, expect Wladimir Klitschko to one day be immortalized in the International...
The World Says Goodbye to The Greatest — On Friday, June 10, 2016, seven days after his death, a hearse bearing the body of Muhammad Ali...
2016 BOXING OBITS — The year that wasn’t started off slowly last January, gaining little momentum as the months passed by, terminating in December with 51-year-old...
McGREGOR vs MAYWEATHER – The silliest question I ever heard about supposedly was posed to the female entertainment director of a cruise line on whose ships...
CAN DECEMBER SALVAGE A BAD YEAR? — So far, according to websites that track the most popular trends on social and mainstream media outlets, 2016 is...
Thomas Hauser Pays Tribute – “The intellectual heavyweight of all boxing writers is the incomparable Thomas Hauser,” wrote Mike Gallego in a 2012 article in Deadspin....
Muhammad Ali Life Lessons – During the 2008 presidential campaign, as a white guy, I had no problem with a black person saying he was voting...