Civil rights leader crisscrossed Akron-Canton area over the past 60 years. Here are some highlights from those visits.

Ali’s greatness wasn’t just speed or swagger, it was a system built on rhythm, distance, and psychological control, and these ...

Do you miss the suits? Remember the days when college basketball and NBA coaches always looked dapper on the sidelines in their usual three-piece suits? In the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and a little ...

New Jersey has produced more world champions per square mile than almost any state in America — and most of them came from Newark and the cities within an From Shakur Stevenson to Arturo Gatti, the co ...

Andre the Giant was a pro-wrestling superstar. Chuck Wepner floored Muhammad Ali and inspired "Rocky." Together they drew ...

These days, if you want a quick ‘no’ from a film studio, tell them you want to put together a boxing film. If you’re looking for an even quicker boot from the office, tell them you want to make a ...

This year, Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa turns 50, with the film first hitting U.S. cinemas on November 21, 1976. To celebrate the Hollywood boxing icon’s legendary story both inside and outside ...

Louisville — Postal officials unveiled a commemorative stamp of boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday, featuring a photo of the champ in his fighting prime.

SAM HAILSTOCK, 72, Pennsylvania welterweight, died “peacefully” in September. Hailstock was 10-12-2 (3 KO) from 1975-1983, including losses to future belt holder Colin Jones and previous belt holder ...

Heavyweight great “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier would have been 81 today. And Frazier, who was and is everything that represents desire, drive, heart, courage, and honest hard work, oh, so deserved to live ...

Chuck Norris fans have been sending prayers his way after the 85-year-old star announced on Sunday that his ex-wife, Dianne Holechek, has died. “I am deeply saddened to share that my ex wife, Dianne, ...

On the day Sylvester Stallone was born in 1946, the doctor on duty clamped forceps on the baby’s emerging head. The result was a severed facial nerve above the infant’s jaw, which gave the left side ...