The surprise death of former world heavyweight champ Joe Frazier reminds of the man's elemental greatness, and of the deep pitfalls of high-contact sport.

Like the rich, successful actors who play the broken-down Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, our sports performers act as our avatars and our archetypes, on and off the court, field and ice. Truth sometimes flows through them and sometimes it is a hard truth worth learning.

Among the many athletes to pay their respects to former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier was another retired prizefighter. On Tuesday, Mike Tyson twe...

PHILADELPHIA — Joe Frazier had to throw his greatest punch to knock down "The Greatest." A vicious left hook from Frazier put Muhammad Ali on th...

The sports world lost a legend on Monday night as former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier succumbed in his battle with liver cancer. Frazier pa...

-- There was a time when Muhammad Ali taunted Joe Frazier relentlessly, called him ugly and challenged his manhood. After his old rival died Monday ...

Boxing is a sport that's currently in shambles. Today, there are very few great rivalries to speak of, let alone great fighters. So the "Fight of the Century" is still the greatest fight and sporting event of all time.

Former New York Mets manager Joe Frazier, who led the team for just one full season before it went into a sharp decline, has died. He was 88. Frazier...

With the latest round of "he said," "he never said," it again has become painfully obvious the reasons why Money Mayweather is not the greatest of all time.

Mayweather and Pacquiao have a duty to put this fight together, not just for the fans, but for the health of a sport that has given them so much.