Michael Hirsley

Truman K. Gibson Jr., an attorney who played a major role in ending segregation in the Armed Forces and was once one of the most powerful boxing promoters in the...

Jermain Taylor and Bernard Hopkins can't fathom that their middleweight title rematch Saturday will be anything like the narrow split decision Taylor won over Hopkins on July 16. Despite all...

Promoter Bobby Hitz's string of a dozen consecutive Thanksgiving Eve boxing shows was broken this week, as the Illinois boxing commission canceled his scheduled Wednesday night show at Club O...

Before Michael Flatley became a dancing star with a series of Irish-themed shows from "Riverdance" to "Lord of the Dance" to his current "Celtic Tiger," he was an amateur boxer...

When Hasim Rahman beat Monte Barrett in a lackluster 12-round heavyweight bout at the United Center on Aug. 13 and was declared "interim champion" of the World Boxing Council, that...

The American League champion White Sox, who have defied the odds all season, are in the unfamiliar position of wanting to live up to them. Going into Monday's fifth game...

Before he faced lightweight champion Diego Corrales on Saturday night, Jose Luis Castillo had vowed to knock out Corrales and bring Corrales' two title belts home to his native Mexico....

The good news about lightweight champion Diego Corrales' title defense Saturday night against Jose Luis Castillo is it promises resumption of a ferocious May 7 brawl in which each man...

The White Sox have won the American League Central. But they haven't won over Las Vegas. Not yet. The Boston Red Sox are 3-2 favorites to win their best-of-five AL...

Friends were waiting to help Jesus Chavez celebrate winning a lightweight title Saturday night in Las Vegas. But Chavez, who grew up and learned to box in Chicago, instead went...