LOS ANGELES-For one day L.A. was target zero as a number of world champs gathered led by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the publicly acknowledged star of the...
One of the icons of Los Angeles sports journalism, Jose “Chiquilin” Garcia Martinez, passed away last week. Though not very tall in physical height, he wielded...
You know the words to the song, written by Paul Anka and most memorably sung by Frank Sinatra. It’s a paean to America’s glitziest, grittiest, most...
Marty Denkin passed away at his home in West Covina, California, on Thursday, Nov. 29, at age eighty-four. Denkin wore many hats during his 40-plus years...
On January 29, 1994 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, longstanding WBC super lightweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez, from Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, defended his...
The late Ralph Kiner, who could hit the long ball but wasn’t particularly adept at anything else on a baseball field, led the National League in...
When you get to be 86 years old and have been in the same line of work for most of your adult life, things have a...
Derrell “Too Sweet” Coley was a ranked contender and 29-1-2 when he faced off with Kip “Top Kat” Diggs (27-2) for the vacant NABF welterweight title...
Oscar De La Hoya is an anomaly and one of the most successful and unique figures in the history of boxing. De La Hoya rose from...
In June of 1959, Don Chargin received a phone call from an anonymous person with a gruff voice warning him to stay out of southern California