Two lives unknowingly became intertwined on February 25, 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center when Cassius Clay faced the reigning heavyweight champion Charles “Sonny” Liston,...
TSS Salutes Lance Pugmire, the 2023 Nat Fleischer Award Winner As journalists go, Nat Fleischer was a hack. One would not know this considering all the...
Ponder this for just a moment: Jerry Izenberg has written about sports for seventy-one years. No, this isn’t a misprint. Behind a righteous conscience, a clear...
Over the course of five-decades-plus, Leigh Montville has delivered books on the careers of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Dale Earnhardt, Jim Calhoun, Manute Bol, Evel Knievel,...
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...
Britain’s Martin Murray has fought the very best and has now closed out a heartbreaking if not admirable and old school career. Others are just beginning...
A TSS CLASSIC: Bill Shoemaker was born to ride thoroughbred race horses. Pablo Picasso to paint. Tony Bennett to sing. Marlon Brando to act. John Schulian to write. Schulian has written for six newspapers including the Washington...
During the mid-20th century when there were about a dozen daily newspapers in New York City, three sportswriting giants loomed large.