Word: boxer
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...American--the traveling on boxcars and sleeping where he could. On the night he won the Light-Heavyweight Championship but no money, there was that gleam in his eyes. When he uttered the word champion, that made me, too, want to be a champion. Working for me and other boxers, he made it clear: "I love God, my family, and I will love you if you work hard." So Archie laid the foundation, and today he stands as a tower for all athletes, saying, "If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it." Will...
...KING OF THE WORLD: THE RISE OF MUHAMMAD ALI A book about a boxer would seem to lack, well, social significance. Not true here. David Remnick takes off from the 1964 bout in which a brash Cassius Clay dethroned the menacing heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. That fight changed Clay into Muhammad Ali and created a new sort of black athlete. Remnick's account of the aftershocks packs a punch...
DIED. ARCHIE MOORE, 84, light-heavyweight champion; in San Diego. The only boxer to fight both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali (he lost both matches), he entertained fans with a fighting style that won him the moniker the Mongoose (see Eulogy...
...comes in. The former Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly might just be the best spokesperson for a disease which has been somewhat on the periphery of the American consciousness. There have been occasional revelations that public figures suffer from the illness, including Attorney General Janet Reno, the boxer Mohammed Ali and Pope John Paul II. And in 1990, the movie "Awakenings" illustrated with striking realism the physical incapacity of patients with Parkinsonian symptoms. But for whatever reason (perhaps because the public figures stricken with Parkinson's are in the expected age bracket for the disease and have not been...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Gingrich jumps, D'Amato and Faircloth lose, in-law Boxer wins and Monica threat goes up in smoke...