MATTOON -- Guest speaker Robert Sterling discussed 19th century soldier and abolitionist Cassius Clay's connections to Coles County during the Mattoon Rotary Club meeting on July 21. Sterling ...

lands a left hook that pops back the head of Chicago’s Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in the 175-pound inter-city Golden Gloves title bout at Chicago Stadium on March 25, 1959. Clay, only 17 ...

Cassius Clay is Hercules, struggling through the twelve ... He even said it in the Bitter End, a Greenwich Village poetry-and-coffee house peopled by curiosities in faded jeans anti beards.

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 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A PHOTOGRAPH of The Beatles and Cassius Clay is to be auctioned off next month. The monochrome picture, signed by Cassius Clay ...

So who was the original Cassius Clay? The simple answer is that he was a prominent abolitionist politician in the mid-1800s. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and was appointed ...

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 greatness began when he won a gold medal ...

Muhammad Ali (56-5, 37 KOs); was born Cassius ... saw Clay troubled by his opponent’s awkward southpaw stance, which saw the American fighter take some heavy shots. Towards the end of the ...

And I met this kid Cassius Clay. Now we had a guy on the army boxing ... He intimately knew Ali, and was close to his parents. Kilroy would end up being a pallbearer for both of their funerals.

The Bitter End, originally opened as a coffeehouse by club-owner-cum-film-producer Fred Weintraub in 1961, attracted a phalanx of young musicians needing to be heard. Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan ...

Champion Cassius ... Clay made good use of his long reach, to poke out snaking lefts to Cooper’s head. He was much faster than Cooper, who was conceding eight years, and just before the end ...