Muhammad Ali - Salon.com

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

ESPN's terrific "Ali Rap" may overplay the champ's influence on hip-hop but gets everything else right by letting him speak.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Triple overtime fun in the wee wee hours. Plus: A look at scab umps. And: Muhammad Ali.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Two good reads: Compelling bios of boxer Jack Johnson and jockey Jimmy Winkfield bring two of America's early black sports heroes to life.

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Roger Clemens' All-Star start was supposed to be one for the ages, and six runs later, it was. Plus: Feller on Ali. And: 23 skiddoo, it's the Blues Brothers!

The tyrant of Cooperstown

By King Kaufman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

The Republican hack who runs baseball's Hall of Fame censors "Bull Durham's" Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.

Self-absorbed and silent

By King Kaufman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

You'd think that a few thousand wealthy 20-somethings would have opinions on the looming war. Not in professional sports, though.

The Mike Tyson carnival freak show

By King Kaufman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

The Tempest in Memphis is on! No, it's off! On! Off! It doesn't matter except that, regrettably, Tonya Harding's pro boxing debut could be delayed.

Why Lewis will demolish Tyson

By Allen Barra — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

As boxing slowly fades away, one of its most admirable champions will send one of its least into well-deserved oblivion.

"Ali"

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Will Smith flies like a butterfly, but what director Michael Mann does to the greatest fighter of all time just stings.

Lennox Lewis and the decline and fall of boxing

By Allen Barra — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

The heavyweight champ is no better than respectable, but in boxing's inflated record books, he'll look like Muhammad Ali.

Death to hagiographers!

By Allen Barra — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

The new wave in sports biography, including the latest revisionist look at Muhammad Ali, is to trash the once-hallowed subject.

The darker side of Muhammad Ali

By Larry Platt — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

A devastating book overturns the boxer's saintly image and redeems one victim of his racial stereotyping -- Joe Frazier.

Insert beaver joke here

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Angelina and Billy Bob want their own furry tree nibblers; the daughters of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier prepare for some punching of their own; and, oops, Britney's got her mom worried!

The battle behind Ali-Frazier I

By Allen Barra — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

HBO's new documentary does justice to "the greatest sporting event of the 20th century," and reveals a side of Muhammad Ali we haven't seen before.

Short attention span

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Relieved of talk show host responsibilities, Martin Short disses his boring guests; Robert Downey Jr. reenters society; David Hasselhoff discovers what's been missing. Plus: Was Helen Hunt's hubby horsing around with hussies?

Vicious in the ring, vicious on the page

By Charles Taylor — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

In "The Devil and Sonny Liston," ace reporter Nick Tosches pumps dangerous levels of testosterone into his portrait of the fighter Muhammad Ali humiliated.

Egomania!

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Lucianne Goldberg's is monumental; Judge Jerry's is bigger than Judge Judy's; Rick Rockwell's is black-and-blue; but Muhammad Ali's is definitely the greatest of all time.

"Main Event"

By Stephen Lemons — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

A retrospective of Howard Bingham's photography recalls the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle."

Blue Glow

By Joyce Millman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Salon's TV picks for Monday, Jan. 10, 2000

And now a word from our readers

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Welcome to the First Annual Nothing Personal Readers' Choice Awards! Where you dish the gossip and I go on vacation!

Keith Richards: Like a thief in the night?

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Evil Glimmer Twin makes off with fan's guitar; health poll: better to resemble Tina Turner than Calista Flockhart -- Doh! Plus: Joe Frazier's daughter to Muhammad Ali's daughter: Boom! boom! Out go the lights.

I'm dreaming of the white room

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

President Oprah? Godfather Trump? Noah Wyle will see you now? Starstock.com survey sez ... fans are nuts; after 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up. Plus: Jann Wenner jams, Yoko Ono swings ... it must be office-party season.

Megamorphosis

By David Goodman — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

I now know what it feels like to be hated by every guy in a bar because the four hottest girls there are dancing intently around you. And yet, I am not all that distracted.

Retiring line

By Amy Reiter — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

After 33 years of throwing punches, William F. Buckley Jr. hangs it up.

Celebs flock to Apple's digital hype fest

By Janelle Brown — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:12:00 PST

Douglas Adams, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Donald Glaser visit Cupertino to make digital movies.