Henry “Hennery” Peck, popularly known as Peck’s Bad Boy, is a fictional character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916). “Peck’s Bad Boy” has been defined as one...
Ramsey Clark, who championed human rights throughout his life and served as Attorney General of the United States during the last 26 months of Lyndon Johnson’s...
Test your knowledge of boxing history in this 15-question multiple-choice trivia quiz. Get 12 or more right and go to the head of the class. To...
BOOK REVIEW – Some rare moments arrive, as either a blessing or a curse, to cast definitive impressions of how someone might be remembered. As anyone...
In professional boxing, fights can be rank-ordered as generic fights, big fights, bigger fights, mega-fights, and spectacles. The first fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier...
It’s one thing to get to the top, but it’s something else entirely to remain there for more than half a century. Jerry Izenberg, longtime sports...
Bob Arum called him the handsomest young boxer to come down the pike since Muhammad Ali. Arum was referencing Paddy Donovan. Of course, Arum didn’t rope...
A friend inquired if I happened to know the odds on the first Ali-Spinks fight. “No, I don’t,” I said, “but no problem, I’ll just look...
No one could ever confuse former heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, who on Friday night finally succumbed to the multiple cancers that for several years had been...
Leon Spinks, who forged one of the most memorable upsets in the history of boxing when he outpointed Muhammad Ali on Feb. 15, 1978, has passed...