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...silence for the duration of the Senate trial, why did it have to be McCain? True, this is serious business, which needs to pass the test of history, not just make the next day's Hotline, but why couldn't, say, Senators Mitch McConnell and Barbara Boxer be the ones to stuff a sock in their mouth? McCain's absence has created such a big hole on shows like Imus in the Morning that producers have reached down to third-tier chatterers like me. The Sunday shows used to be exclusively for people of McCain's ilk. Last Sunday...
DIED. JERRY QUARRY, 53, Hall of Fame boxer; of pneumonia; in Templeton, Calif. Though he never won the heavyweight title, the popular pugilist, whom opponent Joe Frazier called the "good-looking Irish kid with a nice smile," put up decent fights against many of the greats, including Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali. In recent years he was incapacitated by dementia and a loss of motor skills resulting from repeated blows to the head during his three-decade career...
...American--the traveling on boxcars and sleeping where he could. On the night he won the Light-Heavyweight Championship but no money, there was that gleam in his eyes. When he uttered the word champion, that made me, too, want to be a champion. Working for me and other boxers, he made it clear: "I love God, my family, and I will love you if you work hard." So Archie laid the foundation, and today he stands as a tower for all athletes, saying, "If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it." Will...
...KING OF THE WORLD: THE RISE OF MUHAMMAD ALI A book about a boxer would seem to lack, well, social significance. Not true here. David Remnick takes off from the 1964 bout in which a brash Cassius Clay dethroned the menacing heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. That fight changed Clay into Muhammad Ali and created a new sort of black athlete. Remnick's account of the aftershocks packs a punch...
DIED. ARCHIE MOORE, 84, light-heavyweight champion; in San Diego. The only boxer to fight both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali (he lost both matches), he entertained fans with a fighting style that won him the moniker the Mongoose (see Eulogy...