Doc Kearns

Next week, in Part II of his memoirs, Doc Kearns tells of the freewheeling, tumultuous years with Mickey Walker.

A bit jowly, but otherwise trim and fit for his 68 years, Jack Dempsey sat at the greeter's table in his Broadway restaurant and spat an indignant denial that his fists were encased in plaster of paris when he won...

Jack Dempsey's devastation of the giant Jess Willard on that broiling Fourth of July in Toledo 45 years ago was so complete—and so unexpected—that a rumor of foul play has persisted to this day: a rumor that...

In publishing the memoirs of the late Jack (Doc) Kearns, which begin on page 48 of this issue, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has a multiple purpose. First, of course, we hope to entertain by recapturing an era in boxing that...

Fabulous Doc Kearns, boxing's famous manager, completed his memoirs before he died, including his scandalous version of what happened in the Dempsey-Willard fight.