UFC's bigger-bodied fighters used to carry a premonition of bad things to come in the best way possible. But now watching ...

The late-great George Foreman once ranked Muhammad Ali as the fifth best heavyweight in boxing history. ‘Big George’ shared the ring with Ali on just one occasion during his professional career, but ...

Ali had his longtime cornerman, Drew “Bundini” Brown, serve as referee and timekeeper as the two men went at it in three short rounds. Steeves decided to throw the first punch. “He’s a lot faster than ...

When Big East Media Day wrapped up in October, one thing was clear: everyone’s calendars had the dates between the past two outright Big East champions circled with a thick red pen. No need to ...

Montreal’s Ray Getliffe scores five goals to lead the Canadiens to an 8-3 triumph over the Boston Bruins. 1958 — Ted Williams signs a contract with the Boston Red Sox for ...

America used to produce heavyweight champs like Cadillacs rolling off the assembly line. Today you'd be hard pressed to name ...

Hockeytown loves a good Zamboni moment. And perhaps the loudest a Zamboni was ever cheered at Joe Louis Arena was the night when "Stone Cold" Steve Austin hit the ring — literally — while driving a ...

Earlier this week, former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Joe Kelly decided it was time to hang up his spikes and call it a career. The 37-year-old right-hander was drafted by the Cardinals back in 2009 ...

Like previous biographies of the boxer, the book, subtitled “Joe Louis’s Battle for Freedom During World War II,” underscores his patriotism. But Smith and Roberts take the story further, discrediting ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. More than four years after breaking ground, just over half ...

Jake Paul likes to call himself a “disruptor.” It’s a hard label to argue against. Maybe it’s boxing’s fault for being so eminently disrupt-able, for being a professional sport with almost no barrier ...

Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s lucrative venture to fight influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul here at Miami Heat’s basketball stadium on Friday night has been labelled variously as a ...