He is perhaps the final ruler of what remains of a fraying and depleted boxing kingdom in the formerly great fight town of New Orleans. For...
Dave Kindred’s roadmap has taken him all over the world covering many of the grandest events in sports. Whether camped at the Masters, World Series, Super...
Remembering the late Craig ‘Gator’ Bodzianowski, Boxing’s One-Legged Wonder It is a really old joke, so much so that you’d have to figure that Henny Youngman...
On March 29, 1966, Bob Arum promoted his first fight, a 15-round contest between Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Fifty-five...
Music was the lifeblood of the youth culture when I was young. I came of age during the “Golden Age of Rock and Roll” and expanded...
Seven weeks after announcing his retirement, Evander Holyfield had an about-face. The impetus was a two-day rally he attended in Philadelphia led by controversial televangelist Benny...
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...