Matt Wilson's "Second Out" series. Found via Museumuseum.

Ali. The Greatest. There is an entire body of sports writing devoted to him. For more than a generation it's as if…

Here's Frank Deford's classic 1985 Sports Illustrated bonus piece, "The Boxer and the Blonde":

In case you missed it, peep Paul Solotaroff's terrific Men's Journal piece on the late Hector "Macho" Camacho.…

From Carlo Rotella's collection of essays and stories Playing in Time, check this out:

Here's W.C. Heinz's classic True magazine story on Bummy Davis (Jimmy Breslin called it the best magazine story ever…

Twenty years ago The Ring magazine asked the question, after Mike Tyson's rape conviction, "What If Mike Tyson Had…

Speaking of Palookaville, here's one of the most famous scenes in movie history. Just so happens that it involves…

Back in 1998, Tom Scocca wrote a good one, "The Mayor of Palookaville," for the Boston Phoenix:

Well. It turns out Floyd Mayweather has not lost a step after all. I was under the mistaken impression that Floyd…

The firm doing PR for Saturday night's Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Robert Guerrero fight emailed us the quotes from…

From Pete Dexter's first novel, God's Pocket (1983):

Here's the last of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry Holmes.…

Here's a treat—Joe Flaherty's 1981 Inside Sports piece on Jake LaMotta:

It's hard to see what is actually going on here, but it looks like Don King steps out of the ring at the very…

Here's the third of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry…

Here's the second of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry…

In November 1982, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Pete Dexter went to Houston to watch his friend Randall "Tex"…

Here is John Schulian's piece on the legendary Hagler-Hearns fight. It appears in Schulian's fine collection Sometime…