But it was perhaps the Pan American Amateur Boxing Trials in 1959 that brought the greatest boxer the Field House has ever seen in the form of a 178-pound, 17-year-old high school student: Cassius ...

Muhammad Ali (56-5, 37 KOs); was born Cassius Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, and rightfully earned the nickname “The Greatest”. During his prestigious career, there were ...

Urban legends are a barstool currency, traded among sports fans to inform and debate but mostly to entertain. Many of them ...

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 ...

In its second season under head coach Justen Evans, Miller expects to challenge for a playoff spot in District 15-5A Division ...

All the crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven ...

The stars aligned: Cassius Clay (not yet Muhammad Ali) and the Beatles (in Miami Beach in 1964) would soon ride a tsunami of fame. Harry Benson The Beatles were furious. They were standing in the ...

(I've been speaking in Roman metaphors lately, so I'll compare Djokovic to the ruthlessly pragmatic and treacherous Cassius from Julius Caesar: Caesar notes his "lean and hungry look"—something ...

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Cassius Clay rises from boastful amateur boxer to contender for the heavyweight title. Muhammad Ali premieres on PBS stations starting Sunday, September 19 at 8pm ET. Television broadcast air ...

In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, Cassius Clay, explodes on to the scene. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sports with his proud, public self confidence and ...