Two of the bigger boxing promotion companies bang it out on the same day with rival fight cards. One of them is extremely long. It brings...
He probably never should have lasted as long as he did. After famed boxing referee Mills Bee Lane III suffered a debilitating stroke in March 2002,...
S.L. Price Talks About the Disappearing American Heavyweight and More Multi award-winning journalist and author S.L. Price likes to call himself a “parachute guy,” meaning he...
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...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t a boxing fan. But she did something that no other British monarch ever did. She bestowed knighthood on a professional boxer. Now,...
On January 6, 1971, Earnie Shavers, a well-touted heavyweight prospect from Warren, Ohio, fought Lee Estes at the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas. Shavers’ team on...
Earnie Shavers, Gone at 78, Was The Bambino of Boxing’s Biggest Boppers The technology of sports today, most of them anyway, has become so advanced that...
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...
Bill Russell, an inspirational figure and one of the most important athletes in the history of sports, died on July 31 at age 88. Russell revolutionized...