Today is Muhammad Ali's 72nd birthday. Four decades ago, after three-and-a-half years away from the ring, he was…
A performance piece at PS122 reviewed in the Times and also featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Holy shit, Muhammad Ali is the man.
Joe Frazier died two years ago today. Now is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the former champ through a…
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Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in…
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Originally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's…
This story was originally published in a 1971 issue of Sport magazine. It is reprinted here with permission.
In this story, Dick Schaap writes about the newspaper article that first revealed the connection between Ali and…
For several years in the late Sixties, while (largely) lesser fighters vied for the heavyweight title and while his…
Norman Mailer went out running with Muhammad Ali one morning, a few days before the fight with George Foreman in…
It ain't cheap but Taschen Books' tribute to Muhammad Ali, Greatest of All Time, sure is fucking fabulous.
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Originally published in the June 1989 issue of Esquire. Republished here with the permission of the late author's…
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One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams.
Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review…
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II: