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Died. Herman Michael Hickman, 46, behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in...
Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut...
Just before the bout began, the fighters touched gloves. But after their ritual handshake in Chicago's Stadium, not another friendly gesture marred the festivities. Aging (30) Middleweight Champion Carmen Basilio and aged (37) ex-Champion Sugar Ray Robinson were so eager to clobber each other that they both...
Blinder Than Basilio. Carmen kept punching. And the beaten little man was not the only one who had trouble seeing straight. Referee Frank Sikora watched him wade into punch after punch, yet gave him round after round. ("What else was you going to do? Body punches? Wooh! He made the...
Sandwiched between the judges' score cards that made Sugar Ray the middleweight champ once more, Referee Sikora's astigmatic observation served one purpose: he started an argument that should pack the house for a return brawl-if either fighter is ever up to it.