In some ways, Ken Burns takes on his toughest opponent with “Muhammad Ali.” His four-part, eight-hour documentary series about the late, great heavyweight champion and civil rights icon premieres Sunday and airs over four nights through September 22 on PBS. It is, in Burns’ words, a documentary that is “soup to nuts comprehensive in terms
Fifty years ago this week, reality connected like a left hook. I was still in Grade school when the “Fight of the Century” took place, on March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was a one-of-a-kind battle between two undefeated champions — Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Boxing was huge 50
In the excellent new HBO documentary “Ali: vs. Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes,” civil rights activist and MSNBC host Al Sharpton observes that Dick Cavett “was the whitest of white guys in America. But he gave blacks that had been considered outside of the mainstream – like Ali – a chance to be heard,
Joe Frazier is no longer smokin’. May he rest in peace. Frazier did not like Muhammad Ali but may have disliked reporters even more. I was at a TCA press tour nearly two years ago where Fraser, who died yesterday at 67, and fellow former heavyweight boxing champion Larry Holmes were before press to talk about