By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
A House Republican introduced a resolution Thursday to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the two former Navy SEALs who were killed as they defended American diplomats and CIA officers from Islamic extremists in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11.
Carmen Basilio, a genial onion farmer's son who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic, razor-edge rematch six months later, died Wednesday at age 85.
Reporters and pundits writing about politics and particularly presidential debates can't resist the metaphors of the ring. Why should they? The metaphors work.
Retired boxing great Muhammad Ali will visit Philadelphia to receive the Liberty Medal, an award recognizing his longtime role as a fighter outside the ring for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom.
Retired boxing great Muhammad Ali will visit Philadelphia to receive the Liberty Medal, an award recognizing his longtime role as a fighter outside the ring for humanitarian causes, civil rights and religious freedom.
The last time a British man made it to the final of Wimbledon, the war _ World War II _ hadn't yet begun. It was 1938 when Bunny Austin lost the championship in straight sets to Don Budge. And around the world:
The last time a British man made it to the final of Wimbledon, the war _ World War II _ hadn't yet begun. It was 1938 when Bunny Austin lost the championship in straight sets to Don Budge. And around the world:
A basketball game between Georgetown University and China's Bayi Rockets ended in a bench-clearing brawl last week. The altercation began with a cheap-shot foul by a Chinese player and ended with his teammates trying to bash Hoyas over the head with chairs. It's a fitting metaphor for the looming showdown between China and America: Beijing wants to beat us on the world stage and is willing to break every rule in the book to win.
Is boxing really a sport? Not everyone would agree that it is, although the "sweet science" lives on, precariously, in the cable TV listings. Boxing as a recreation has all but disappeared save on college campuses, where it survives as a team sport.
Much too belatedly, baseball fans who care (or should care) are learning about the game's rich and diverse role in black culture during the days when Washington and most of the nation writhed in the unforgiving grip of segregation.
Soccer invasion
Soccer invasion
The new heavyweight champion of the world fell to his knees in the ring at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field and murmured a brief prayer.
The new heavyweight champion of the world fell to his knees in the ring at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field and murmured a brief prayer.
People can get attention either from their accomplishments or from their deliberate attempts to get attention. Today, almost everywhere you look, people seem to be putting their efforts into getting attention.
the boxer Joe Louis said late in life, that he had done the best he could with what he had.
