The only appropriate reaction to any award nomination is gratitude, and that rule applies whether or not you wind up clutching the big cheque and hoisting the trophy at the …
An overhand right from Andy Cruz crashed into Hironori Mishiro’s left cheek, staggering the stubborn Japanese challenger midway through the fifth round of their showdown at Madison Square Garden on …
Toward the business end of The Professional, that classic boxing novel by the peerless sports writer W.C. Heinz, the action shifts from a resort in the Hudson River Valley to …
I’ve been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks and for the first 10 days it was an easy secret to keep, mainly because I didn’t quite believe …
Don’t call it a book tour, because it’s not. It’s just me running around with my debut memoir, My Fighting Family, introducing my best work to new audiences, and signing …
Every Tuesday before anyone else in my house wakes up, before the sun rises, before I’ve even had my daily red-eye, I sneak downstairs, fire up to my laptop and …
The thing about fighting Philadelphia’s Jaron Ennis is, he eats enough clean punches to make you think you have a chance. So when Eimantas Stanionis, clipped him with a counter …
Good news for book nerds, sportswriting fans, and other friends of my work in Chicago: You can now, finally, officially, head to a public library branch and borrow a copy …
Writing to invite you all to a book signing at Indigo Erin Mills on May 10. It’s a Saturday and I’ll be there till they kick me out, selling books, …
Three days after watching Kenshiro Teraji unify the flyweight title with a stunning, final round, come-from-behind TKO win over Seigo Yuri Akui, I’m still groggy. My voice has returned but …