One of the last of the breed – a full-time boxing writer for the print edition of a major metropolitan daily – left us this week....
Boxing in the Pages of Sports illustrated: A Short History Last week, Sports Illustrated laid off virtually its entire staff. This would seem to presage the...
Sunday, March 13, marked the first anniversary of the death of Marvelous Marvin Hagler who was 66 when he passed away at his home in Bartlett,...
Glimpses into the Past (Part Three of a Three-Part Story) Tracking all the way back to the 1940’s, I have witnessed literally thousands of fights during...
Sometimes the loser of an athletic competition performs so far above his level of expectation that he is credited with a moral victory. Twenty-nine years ago...
Words In, Words Out: This Fight Scribe’s Reading Guide Happy New Year 2020 to the TSS community! It’s hard to believe we’ve arrived at this point...
It’s been said — and it applies to all sports, but especially boxing — that in order to be great, one has to face great competition....
James Lawton calls boxing “the world’s oldest and most embattled sport.” A Ringside Affair (Bloomsbury Publishing) recounts his sojourn