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 ...

Johnny Unitas was the NFL’s most valuable player and UCLA beat Duke for college basketball’s national title. Then, however, we bump abruptly into Cassius Clay, an utterly surprising figure so ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...