Jack Dempsey

To the best of my knowledge, Jack Dempsey is the first major American sports figure to have found a biographer in the groves of academe. His name is Randy Roberts, he teaches in the European Division of the...

When Tommy Loughran was in his prime in the late '20s, they said he could fight 15 rounds without disturbing a single wavy hair on his handsome head. Born Thomas Patrick Loughran on Nov. 29, 1902, the son of an Irish...

"Crack! went Ray's heavy oak stick," wrote a sports reporter in 1891. "Gastright raised his hands in an instant to stop the powerful impetus of the ball, which was whistling to centre field, and it broke through his...