Muhammad Ali will be in the house Saturday afternoon when Louisville entertains Rutgers at 4 p.m. in a Big East Conference game. I can’t speak for younger fans, but to me that trumps the LeBron James appearance at last Saturday’s UK-Vanderbilt game in Rupp Arena.
Of Ali’s first 10 professional fights, five were held in Freedom […]

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Your faithful correspondent did the college football double-header on Saturday, traveling to Cincinnati for the Kentucky-Miami, Ohio, game in Paul Brown Stadium, then coming back to Louisville for the U of L-Indiana State contest in the big pizza hut – uh, strike that – in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium.
It was a glorious day in almost […]

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Earlier this year, Denny Schrecker was in Florida, playing golf with his wife, when his doctors asked him to come home so they could treat the brain tumor that was killing him. But Denny said no. He said this was maybe the last chance he’d ever have to play golf with Linda in Florida, so […]

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In these more enlightened times, the statue of Davis should be moved to the Kentucky Military Museum, or some such place, and replaced by one that would honor the achievements of a Kentucky-born African-American and/or female.

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The voice of reason (Dr. King) and the voice of revolution (Ali) burst into the national consciousness more or less together in 1963.

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For someone whose footwork dazzled, who floated in order to sting, the most important step of Muhammad Ali’s life was one he did not take.

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Were Ali politically active today, instead of silenced by the ravages of Parkinson’s Disease, he surely would be railing against America’s invasion of Iraq

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The fight should have been held in Freedom Hall because both the contestants
were longtime friends from Louisville. Instead, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Ellis
squared off in the Houston Astrodome on July 26, 1971.

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Muhammad Ali prepares for a second bout against Leon Spinks and a chance to win the heavyweight title three different times.

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