Sport can offer catharsis in times of crisis, but not this time. Liston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumours were spreading that Clay was not just a noisy, bright-eyed boy blessed with
"Ringside" is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg. Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England
"The man who has no imagination Stands on earth. He has no wings. He cannot fly." (Muhammad Ali). Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fi
Twenty-four hours after arriving in Dublin, Muhammad Ali rang his publicist Harold Conrad. "Hey, Hal?" said Ali, "where are all the niggers in this country?" "Ali," replied Conrad, "there aren't any."
I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader collects 30 of the best pieces ever written about this sporting legend in an anthology by the greatest about the Greatest. Muhammad Ali's story is told by a
The best of Davis Miller’s essays and memoirs – including the award-winning “My Dinner with Ali.”Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller’s essays and memoirs. The volume contain
Muhammad Ali is the most famous figure in the history of sport and probably the most recognisable person on earth - truly 'the greatest'. Now in his fifties and fighting Parkinson's Disease, he remain
