Many of them are surreptitious in nature and border on the apocryphal, such as Michael Jordan’s really retiring from basketball because of a gambling suspension, Cassius Clay’s phantom punch ...

British journalist David Frost interviewed the boxing champ 12 times, and their 34-year association is explored in the new ...

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against ...

Muhammad Ali refused the draft at a Houston induction center in 1967, sparking backlash and a defining moment in the civil rights and anti-war movements.

Cassius Clay was a towering young braggart, but as much as he used his mouth, the real music was in his hands. In January of 1964 he hadn’t done much worth talking about yet in professional ...

World heavyweight champion Mohammed Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, is interviewed by a reporter in front of the United Nations with his brother, Rudolph Valentino Clay, Black Muslim leader Malcolm X ...