The Rise and Fall of the HBO Empire – part one
RECOLLECTIONS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE AT THE START OF A 50-YEAR REVOLUTION.
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Bernard Hopkins: Update
Bernard Hopkins might have been the best over-forty boxer ever. Time and again, he'd get in the ring with younger...
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Fantasy, Reality, and Haney-Garcia
Former HBO Boxing commentator Larry Merchant is fond of saying that boxing is the theater of the unexpected. When Devin...
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Harry Belafonte: An Appreciation (1927-2023)
Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, at age 96. Belafonte crossed paths with Muhammad Ali and other fighters from time...
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The Inner Sanctum: Thomas Hauser’s latest book gives rare glimpses of boxing life
Author Thomas Hauser is what I call a “Q-and-Q” writer, a reference to the prodigious quantity of copy he has...
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An Inductee Experiences the International Boxing Hall of Fame – Part Four
Saturday, June 11, began with breakfast in Parlour. That was followed by a bus ride to Canastota for another meet-and-greet...
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An Inductee Experiences the International Boxing Hall of Fame – Part Three
Prior to going to Canastota for Induction Weekend, I asked some previous inductees what the experience was like. "You get a...
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An Inductee Experiences the International Boxing Hall of Fame – Part Two
My induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame came about as a consequence of my writing. So allow me...
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An Inductee Experiences the International Boxing Hall of Fame – Part One
On Sunday, December 1, 2019, I arrived home in mid-afternoon after visiting my mother and checked my telephone answering machine....
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Scottie Pippen, Unguarded, and Boxing
Boxing fans are familiar with Michael Arkush from The Big Fight (the autobiography that he fashioned with Sugar Ray Leonard)...
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