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The Miami Heat kicked the Celtics in the head, teeth, calf, and everyone else in Game 3I have seen some ass-whuppings administered in my lifetime. I remember in the fifth-grade baseball playoffs beating the top overall seed by about 20 runs. To put a championship cap on Alabama’s 2012 football season the Tide ran through Notre Dame so viciously, that their opponents lost the desire to...

World Cup Diary Day 18: Croatia, Argentina advance in penalty kicksAs extra time started, neither Brazil nor Croatia showed any urgency. The weight of a FIFA World Cup quarterfinal entering the additional 30 minutes-plus after going scoreless in the contest’s original time could’ve been swapped for the rhythm of a Tuesday exhibition. World Cups are how every countr...

A big heavyweight title fight in on the horizon, so of course boxing is about to get crazySome people get annoyed by the process of how big fights are set up. For me, it’s the one time that I love raw, unregulated capitalism. People openly doing whatever it takes to get as much guaranteed money as possible, and as many eyeballs on the screen as possible....

Tennis is having the goldenest of all Golden Ages

It’s strange how normalized greatness is during something’s golden age. If you look at music for example, hip-hop peaked in the ’90s for a lot of people like classic rock did in the ’60s and ’70s. However, even when 2Pac and Biggie were at the apex, rappers like Nas and Jay-Z weren’t in the picture ...

No, Tyson Fury is not the GOAT

Following the epic Fury-Wilder 3 fight Saturday night, a reporter caught up with boxing legend and promoter Oscar De La Hoya. A question was presented to De La Hoya concerning whether Fury is the greatest fighter the heavyweight division has ever seen....

Because Tokyo 2021 is weird and shouldn’t be happening, Deadspinners recall their favorite past Olympic moments

Conflicted about tuning in tonight for the Opening Ceremonies of an Olympics that most of the host nation don’t even want in the middle of a pandemic where athletes are essentially being greeted with positive COVID-19 tests at the airport and rumors abound of possible cancellation even as it kicks o...

With Mayweather-Paul, Showtime has morphed into Comedy Central

For boxing fans, it must be sad to watch what Showtime has become....

50 years ago a boxing match stopped the world, now the sport could barely stop traffic — could baseball be next?

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of “The Fight Of The Century,” the first of three Joe Frazier-Muhammad Ali fights. Even though it took place a decade before I was born, anyone can glean the importance of it by listening to just about anyone who was alive at the time talk about it or even read a f...

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50 years ago today, Ali and Frazier stepped into the ring and delivered a divided nation its greatest sporting spectacle

Professional boxing had come a long way in the half-century that preceded March 8, 1971, the night Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali stepped into the Madison Square Garden ring for what remains history’s greatest heavyweight championship fight....

by Staff Report|

|Tue Mar 09 2021

Remembering Leon Spinks’ forgotten upset over Ali 42 years ago

Leon Spinks passed away on February 5 due to prostate cancer at the age of 67. On February 15, 42 years ago, he starred in one of sports’ larger-than-life upsets over one of the most unforgettable boxers to have ever stepped into a ring. If you compile your own Tale of the Tape retrospective, withou...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Tue Feb 16 2021

Philly News Station Forgets Joe Frazier's Been Dead For Five Years, Wishes Him A Happy Birthday

Joe Frazier is not going to be meeting with friends and supporters this evening at City Hall at 6:00, because, sadly, Joe Frazier has been dead since 2011. That did not stop Philadelphia news station Fox29 from reporting that Frazier was turning 73 today....

by Patrick Redford|

|Wed Jan 11 2017

A nine-foot, 400-pound statue of Smokin' Joe Frazier brought one of his daughters to tears. Now, it's being bronzed and prepped for all of Philadelphia to see. [Newsworks]...

by Rohan Nadkarni|

|Wed Aug 20 2014

Smokin' Joe Frazier

From Philly.com, check out this article about Stephen Layne's dope Joe Frazier sculpture. ...

by Alex Belth|

|Tue Jul 22 2014

Down Goes Terror: How A Frightened George Foreman Shocked Joe Frazier

Excerpted from Bouts of Mania: Ali, Frazier, and Foreman—and an America on the Ropes. ...

by Richard Hoffer|

|Fri Jul 18 2014

A Photog Remembers When, And Why, "Uncle Tom" Frazier Kicked Ali's Ass

Today is Muhammad Ali's 72nd birthday. Four decades ago, after three-and-a-half years away from the ring, he was half-assedly gearing up for a title fight with the reigning champ, Joe Frazier. LIFE photographer John Shearer remembers that winter well....

by Benedict Cosgrove|

|Fri Jan 17 2014

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by Alex Belth|

|Wed Jan 08 2014

Joe Frazier Was Cooler Than Ali. Discuss.

Joe Frazier died two years ago today. Now is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the former champ through a single photograph that best captured the unbridgeable distance between the two premier fighters of the age — a picture made at the very moment when the rivalry between Ali and Smokin' Joe ...

by Benedict Cosgrove|

|Thu Nov 07 2013

Love, Boxing and Hunter S. Thompson

Check out this long 2012 essay on Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson by John Kaye over at the Los Angeles Review of Books:...

by Alex Belth|

|Mon Aug 19 2013

Just when it seemed like Philadelphia's cursed Joe Frazier sculpture, long planned for the site of the Spectrum, was finally, actually going to happen, the artist has passed away suddenly. [NewsWorks]...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Aug 05 2013

Joe Frazier's Youngest Son Claims Frazier Told Him He Was Poisoned Two Months Before His Death

On the day before Joe Frazier died in November, his 20-year-old son, Derek Dennis Frazier, made a YouTube video saying he had not spoken with his father in two months. Derek, the youngest of Frazier's 11 children, also said he did not know where his father had been, even as he lay dying in a Philade...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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