WATCH: In Memoriam: Those We've Lost Along the Way
2011 was a monumental year in a lot of ways. Sadly, we lost many amazing minds and talents along the way. Here's a round of those we've lost, alo...
2011 was a monumental year in a lot of ways. Sadly, we lost many amazing minds and talents along the way. Here's a round of those we've lost, alo...
William Bradley | Posted 01.16.2012
Monday's Philadelphia funeral for former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier brought some old but still very salient issues back to the fore. Frazier's sudden death from liver cancer has reminded many of some uncomfortable truths.
AP | By DAN GELSTON | Posted 01.14.2012
PHILADELPHIA -- With his championship belt and a pair of gloves draped over his casket, Joe Frazier was going one more round. The Rev. Jesse Jackson ...
J.D. Bell | Posted 01.11.2012
Commentary from the blogosphere you may have missed this week.
William Bradley | Posted 01.10.2012
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.
Joe Lapointe | Posted 01.10.2012
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.
loop21.com | Posted 01.09.2012
The left hook is malice made into a thing of beauty. Boxing lore will tell you that the left hook has dashed more aspirations, left more men arrayed ...
Posted 01.08.2012
Among the many athletes to pay their respects to former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier was another retired prizefighter. On Tuesday, Mike Tyson twe...
AP | DAN GELSTON and TIM DAHLBERG | Posted 01.08.2012
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...
Posted 01.07.2012
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...
AP | By MIKE FITZPATRICK | Posted 01.08.2012
-- There was a time when Muhammad Ali taunted Joe Frazier relentlessly, called him ugly and challenged his manhood. After his old rival died Monday ...
Len Berman | Posted 01.07.2012
"Happy Valley" got rocked by a sex scandal this weekend. A former Penn State assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, was arrested and charged with 40 counts of assaulting eight young boys over a 15-year period.
Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Morris W. O'Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Ryan Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Vickie Karp | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Frazier's story has never been told. Still a dashing figure -- I found him much more at peace with life than the documentary may lead you to believe.
Michael Shrage | Posted 05.25.2011
Thrilla in Manila looks at the famous Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier rivalry from Frazier's perspective in a transparent representation of the fighter's tumultuous relationship with his better known rival.
Posted 12.21.2011