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...Frazier is--thwack!--training a boxer on the heavy bag at his North Philadelphia gym. "Don't reach," Frazier admonishes. Louder thwacks. Suddenly the former heavyweight champion stops, squints his eyes, then gently wipes the boxer's runny nose with his gloved hand. "What?" the younger athlete says, momentarily self-conscious. "Do I have snot there...
Such intimate moments between the legend and his charges are rare, but the boxer Smokin' Joe is coaching today is his daughter Jacquelyn Frazier-Lyde, 39, who turned pro in January. Since Muhammad Ali's fierce 22-year-old daughter Laila made a splash in her pro debut last October, Frazier-Lyde has ratcheted the hype up a notch. Sounding more like her father's greatest rival, the lawyer and mother of three has vowed to carry on the Frazier legacy and "whip Laila's butt"--preferably in September, on the 25th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila...
...ended up joining the boxing commission after refereeing for quite a few years, and met the likes of Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, and Sugar...
This attitude may sound like the prelude to a very romantic look at American Indian life. It is not. Frazier treats the people he meets "on the rez" with respect, but he is aware of the problems many of them bring on themselves. There is, for example, their tendency to drink and then drive and be killed in car wrecks. "As I approached the reservation," Frazier writes of his first visit, "I imagined I could feel the life expectancy drop, as palpable as a sudden drop in temperature...
...Frazier serendipitously shuttles his narrative between Pine Ridge visits and snippets of Indian history, a fascinating picture emerges of a people struggling with the consequences of old wrongs and human orneriness. He remains alert to signs of hope and finds one in the story of the late SuAnne Big Crow, a high-school basketball star whose exploits and character united the reservation in pride. Like her ancestors, Big Crow lives on in legend...