MUHAMMED ALI AND ALI MUHAMMED Part 1: Last night I watched Ali,1 a 2006 biographical drama starring Will Smith as the legendary boxer and...
Good to read those responses, folks. Before leaving, I'll post a prose-poetic piece I wrote out of personal interest, although it may not interest...
Mike I thank Joyce Carol Oates for her review essay in The New York Review of Books, 19/12/'13 entitled "Mike". Her essay is a review of a new...
The New York Review of Books for June 2012 does not have the entire review. If you google the words "the Cultural History of Boxing" you will come...
In the brilliant and unsettling fragment Homers Contest, found among Nietzsches unpublished writings after his death in 1900, the...
Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey...
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy, London: Reaktion, 478 pp., U. of Chicago Press ------------------------...
Among many achievements (philosopher, essayist, dramatic critic, artist), William Hazlitt was our first great sportswriter. In the Romantic age,...
ROUND AFTER ROUND On September 23rd 1952 Rocky Marciano climbed into the ring to challenge the heavyweight boxing champion, Jersey Joe Walcott....
THE FIGHT JOE LOUIS AND THE BAHÁ'Í TEACHING PLAN Joe Louis(1914-1981) was ranked as the No. 1 contender for the heavyweight champion of the world...
After watching the first part of the television series entitled The Fight: The Rules of the Ring on SBS TV (Tuesdays from 1:00 to 2:00 a.m....
