Clay was one of the best young prospects in the sport. A Madison sports reporter, Henry McCormick, described the amateur boxer upon arriving in Madison as “a fine-looking youngster … rangy, ...

On February 25, 1964, after seven rounds, Cassius Clay prevailed over Sonny Liston, the reigning world champion. Focus on Sport / Getty Images "From Cassius Clay," he wrote on one of his training ...

Muhammad Ali (56-5, 37 KOs); was born Cassius Clay on January 17 ... But on September 5 1960 at the Palazzo dello Sport stadium, Clay etched his name in Olympic history, claiming a historic ...

Miller, QB Andrew Body, WR Ralph Rodriguez, WR-DB Cassius Clay; Flour Bluff, RB Isaac Miles, DL Isaiah Alday, LB Kai Volkman ...

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against ...

It’s one of the trickiest mental adjustments to make in sports. It's also a shock ... to the ruthlessly pragmatic and treacherous Cassius from Julius Caesar: Caesar notes his "lean and hungry ...

In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, Cassius Clay, explodes on to the scene. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sports with his proud, public self confidence and ...

All the crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven ...