Today is Muhammad Ali's 72nd birthday. Four decades ago, after three-and-a-half years away from the ring, he was…
Over at her great movie blog, Sunset Gun, Kim Morgan interviews James Toback about his Mike Tyson documentary.
A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield is still struggling a bit financially, so he's the newest member…
When someone mentions performance-enhancing drugs, what comes to mind? For me, it's an image of two 'roided out home…
Adrien Broner made Marcos Maidana's earlobe do all kinds of crazy thing, but Maidana has knocked Broner down twice.
Holy shit, Muhammad Ali is the man.
"Rocky Morphology," the chart above from Fathom.info, breaks down all six Rocky films by scene type: "dialogue"…
An entertaining night of boxing in Atlantic City is turning dark as news that the super welterweight bout between…
South African revolutionary, prisoner, politician, and icon Nelson Mandela died today at age 95. Before he did so…

Mike Tyson stopped by The Arsenio Hall Show this week. Tyson and Hall talked about partying, life in jail—Tyson had…
I'm late on this but in case you missed it do yourself a favor and check out Brin-Jonathan Butler's portrait of…
Manny Pacquiao worked Brandon Rios over for 12 rounds early this morning in a fight that more resembled sound check…
Bloody Elbow's Connor Ruebusch has a very good breakdown of Manny Pacquiao, who was last seen around these parts eating Juan Manuel Márquez's right hand. Pacquiao-Rios starts in a few hours. I've got Pac-Man, by decision. [Bloody Elbow] Read more

Trainers for Manny Pacquiao and Brandon Rios had to be separated after an altercation in Macau this morning, ahead…
On Nov. 2, heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov fought 10 hard rounds against "Irish" Mike Perez at Madison Square…