This coming August it will be 20 years since we lost Jim Murray, America’s most decorated sportswriter. Murray was 78 when he died of heart failure...
In at least one very significant way, two-time former heavyweight champion Hasim “The Rock” Rahman has something in common with his more renowned
In this survey we posed a hypothetical question: Suppose that there was going to be a Mount Rushmore of Boxing with the faces of four boxers...
When boxing historian and statistician James Vincent Trunzo created his beloved boxing simulation board game TITLE BOUT in 1976 it was to satisfy a nagging
The names of professional boxers who competed in Lowell, Massachusetts, as amateurs read like a who's who of boxing greats.
Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano. The Rock, a shoemaker’s son from Brockton, Massachusetts, was five fights and 11 months away from winning the world
The sports heroes and the music of our youth have a particularly evocative hold on us as we grow older. Recently, I was watching The Willows...