Just before he met the Beatles, became the heavyweight champion of the world and changed his name to Muhammad Ali, a boxer named Cassius Clay showed up at a basketball practice in 1964 and ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, emerged from humble beginnings in Louisville, Kentucky, where he began boxing at the age of 12. His journey to ...

Cassius Clay Sr’s older sister, Sonji, would have been named Cassius, but instead was named after Muhammad Ali’s first wife. Cassius Clay Sr. wanted to pass on the name in honor of her. ...

Long before the rise of the Wisconsin basketball team in the late ’90s — culminating in a Final Four finish in 2000 — the biggest crowds at the Field House belonged to the ... Cassius Clay. Traveling ...

On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first time as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida.

Cassius held the Guinness World Record as the largest crocodile in captivity until 2012 when he was briefly surpassed by Lolong, a Filipino crocodile measuring 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) long ...

Mel Hankla will discuss the 19th century abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Civil War Round Table at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 320 Second St., Marietta.

One thing about Cassius Clay. He is a man of his word. “I’m gonna shake up this town,” said the world’s heavy weight champion last week — and he did. The town was New York. Announcing ...

CAMBRIDGE — Caden Stoldt will speak on Cassius Marcellus Clay at the meeting of the Southeastern Ohio Civil War Roundtable. Clay, who Mohammed Ali was originally named after, was a fervent ...

Just before he met the Beatles, became the heavyweight champion of the world and changed his name to Muhammad Ali, a boxer named Cassius Clay showed up at a basketball practice in 1964 and ...