Rocky Marciano

"What would be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're a champion." — Rocky Marciano One could likely trace them all the way back to Armenia. Now they extend into North Hollywood, Van Nuys, Pasadena and Encino. They...

GLENDALE — Vanes "Nightmare" Martirosyan and "Mean" Joe Greene hail from opposite coasts, but hardly come from different worlds and the two undefeated junior middleweight contenders, both 24, have a lot more in common than meets the eye....

Two pieces of golf history were stolen from the U.S. Golf Association Museum in Somerset County, N.J., in a smash-and-grab burglary just hours after the museum celebrated Tuesday's opening of a new wing with 200 items from LGPA golfer Mickey Wright. Of...

LAS VEGAS — A big mistake while pondering Floyd Mayweather Jr. is to try to make sense of him. His unpredictability is his only certainty. It is well before noon Friday at the MGM Grand. This is not so much a resort and casino as it is a massive...

Dundee was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994 _ honoring a career that spanned six decades in which he worked with champions like Ali, Leonard, George Foreman, Carmen Basilio and Jose Napoles....

Tuesday will mark the Iowa caucuses, the first voting that counts in the presidential race. During this quadrennial ritual, politicians conduct "retail politics," whether or not the people buy it. Here are 10 facts that can withstand the upcoming...

So. Jerry Lewis is out as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon, which he had captained since 1966 (though he had hosted local telethons for the charity as far back as the early 1950s). Having announced that the......

1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the apparent first victim of ''Jack the Ripper,'' was found slain in London's East End. 1959: The bookmobile began making regular stops at rural schools throughout Brown County. 1969: Boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light...

How great was Mike Tyson? Despite all the hype the hoopla and the hysteria, I don’t think he is among the Top 10 heavyweights of all-time. That said, he belongs in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Iron Mike was iconic, and much like Ali,...

"AMORE: The Story of Italian American Song" By Mark RotellaFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 320 pages, $26.00 1947 was a splendid year for Italian Americans. For decades, Italian immigrants, especially those from the poorer southern regions, were feared,...

  By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Flores handed a digital camera to a friend and grabbed a place next to Babe Ruth's monument in the famous park beyond the center-field wall at Yankee Stadium. This was a no-brainer for the...