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...muggy Houston morning, George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion of 15 years ago, is bundled in a military shirt and heavy work pants, plodding up and down a freeway embankment in the piney woods near his home. Foreman isn't just climbing the steep hill. He is maneuvering up it backward -- up and back, up and back -- a modern-day Sisyphus, sweating and straining in the heavy grass. As he moves, the old fighter hurls jabs and uppercuts at the blazing sun with his prodigious arms...
Strange as the sight might seem, Foreman's goal is even odder. At the age of 40, after a full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...
...Foreman be serious? What kind of odds would Vegas put on him against Iron Mike Tyson, the current titleholder? Boxing does not take kindly to reruns by its geriatric set. Witness Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and Ali. Foreman, the boxer turned preacher, is older than the other ex-champs who tried in vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying...
News Editor for this Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Foreman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Stephen J. Newman '92 Editorial Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Features Editor: Anh T. Nguyen '90 Sports Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Photo Editor: John F. Kim '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Aaron J. Milbank...
News Editor for This Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Foreman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Melissa R. Hart '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Robert J. Weiner '92 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Feature Editors: Susan B. Glasser '90 Colin F. Boyle '90 Sports Editors: Michael D. Stankiewicz Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: John F. Kim '92 Copy Editor: Joshua A. Gerstein...