“Of all his assignments,” said the renowned sportswriter Dave Anderson, “[Jimmy] Cannon appeared to enjoy boxing the most.” Cannon would have sheepishly concurred. He dated his...
Holiday Reading 2023: Best Books About Boxing By Thomas Hauser Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be...
Thomas Hauser’s Notes and Nuggets: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and More Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Opera Company at Lincoln Center in New York mounted a...
Two of boxing’s greatest blow-by-blow commentators were in the news last week. On Saturday night, Jim Lampley returned to the sweet science but in a role...
Former world heavyweight title challenger Roy Harris passed away last week at the age of 90. This coming Friday, August 18, marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of...
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,...
In the build-up to Rocky Marciano’s first confrontation with Ezzard Charles, The Miami Herald cast an eye back to The Rock’s heartbreaking 1951 destruction of Joe Louis. In...
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...
Harvey Araton Reflects on the Odd Coupling of Ali-Liston II and Lewiston, Maine It’s rarely the case, but in a few instances a heavyweight championship fight...
William Nack came late to sportswriting, but once he did, it was gangbusters. Nack, who would have celebrated his 81st birthday on February 4, spent 11...