Over the course of five-decades-plus, Leigh Montville has delivered books on the careers of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Dale Earnhardt, Jim Calhoun, Manute Bol, Evel Knievel,...
Las Vegas — SHOWTIME was at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas tonight with an entertaining seven-fight card that served the dual purpose of providing the network...
Thomas Hauser is the Pierce Egan of our generation. Two centuries ago, Egan chronicled the goings-on in the world of prizefighting in a series of articles....
‘Hotlanta’ Has Suddenly Become a Professional Boxing Hotspot This coming Saturday, Oct. 23, Top Rank will stage an important fight at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, home...
Close the book. And it’s a thick one on Filipino superstar Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. When Pacquiao first arrived in the late 90s it wasn’t with great...
“I wanted to write about Muhammad Ali,” Wilfrid Sheed told me years ago when we were discussing the text that Sheed had written for an elaborate...
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...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X were two of the most charismatic and important people of the twentieth century. Five years ago, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith...
Nico Ali Walsh, a 21-year-old Las Vegas middleweight, made his pro debut in a 4-round fight on Saturday, Aug. 14, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Walsh’s fight with...
The Hauser Report: The Script for Lamar Odom vs. Aaron Carter The sweet science is being inundated by a wave of what one might call “trash...