Freddie Steele: Remembering the Tacoma Assassin on His Birthday Frederick Earl Burgett, born on December 18, 1912, in Seattle, Washington, would become one of the most...
Larry Goldberg promoted his eleventh club fight card at Sony Hall in New York on February 20, continuing the Boxing Insider series that began in October...
Boxing Notes and Nuggets from Thomas Hauser Adam Pollack has written eleven books about boxing’s early gloved champions including a three-volume study of Jack Dempsey. Volume...
Carl Weathers, who passed away last Thursday (Feb. 1) at age seventy-six, appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows but is best remembered for portraying...
If one had the ability to construct a prototypical New York City boxing writer, it would be in the mold of Wally Matthews. This observation was...
If you ask former sportswriter Steve Marantz when was boxing’s Golden Age, he’s quick with a response. His answer just so happens to coincide with the...
A TSS CLASSIC FROM THE PEN OF JONATHAN RENDALL — Listening to Bernard Hopkins attempting to outdo Howard Eastman with apocalyptic descriptions of his early life...
Professional basketball players, baseball players, football players, hockey players, and even soccer players all have negotiated benefit packages including important pension features. Because of their team...
This time I asked more than two dozen noted boxing buffs to name the nicest person they had met in boxing. One could select a boxer,...
Heritage Auctions, headquartered in Dallas, bills itself as “the world’s third largest auction house” and “the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer.” Its website states that, since 1976,...