Long before the rise of the Wisconsin basketball team in the late ’90s — culminating ... 17-year-old high school student: Cassius Clay. Traveling a long way from his hometown of Louisville, Ky., Clay ...

Cassius Clay Sr’s older sister ... Not bad for an athlete who’s first love was basketball. Having played basketball through all the youth leagues and at Miller, Clay’s family thought ...

Bender went on to play basketball at Indiana and Arkansas ... "Do you think I'm going to be the principal of a school that Cassius Clay didn't finish?" he said. “If every teacher here fails ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay, the undefeated challenger ... and received more coverage in most newspapers than pro or college basketball. The day after Ali's big victory, my junior high class couldn ...

"Everybody liked Cassius," said Clint Lovely who graduated two years after Clay. "Everybody liked ... I made all-state in basketball and football, and he stuck with the boxing part.

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. On the day of the ...