Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the ...

Too often in sports we find our heroes don't live up to their sporting images. Legendary careers have been tarnished by personal failures, and what has been won in the ring has very much been lost ...

1. The Professional by W.C. Heinz – Published in 1958, The Professional is an iconic work of pugilistic fiction. Boxer Eddie Brown is on a quest for the middleweight championship with crusty trainer ...

There are many things the boxing public knows about Alexis Arguello. If you are looking for more, Christian Giudice's book, "Beloved Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Alexis Arguello," delivers it.

Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books on boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the books ...

A remarkable boxing collection of 34 lots is up for auction, including pieces from Muhammad Ali's non-title fight with Rudi Lubbers in Indonesia in 1973, William Oxberry's Pancratia (1812) - the first ...

BOXING AND THE MOB: THE NOTORIOUS HISTORY OF THE SWEET SCIENCE By Jeffrey Sussman Rowman & Littlefield, $34, 216 pages When I was a teenager in the 1960s, I used to visit the Passyunk Gym at Passyunk ...