Springs Toledo Delivers With In “The Cheap Seats: Boxing Essays”

Boxing Writing At Its Best In This Fine Collection by Bobby FranklinSprings Toledo is back with another collection of essays on boxing.Springs Toledo is back with another collection of essays on boxing. In 2014 his first collection, The Gods of War, was widely acclaimed. It has joined the ranks of boxing...

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With a week in the books, the playoffs only offer more questions

Two different people with the same two words on the same subject: Chris Paul.It appears the broken bone in his right hand will keep Paul out for the rest of the playoffs. What does that mean? Well, if we've learned from this postseason, it's that we don't know what anything means. The terms are too subject to change.The Golden State Warriors began...

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Iconic Dempsey exemplified the Roaring '20s

It's been debated, often and sincerely enough, whether the times make the man or vice versa. Jack Dempsey, the modern fight game's first real superstar, certainly was a product of his era, but no sports figure better epitomized what we recall in history books today as the Roaring '20s. Forget pugs in general. There were some great ones in the...

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This Jack Dempsey Was 'Nonpareil' : The 1880s Fighter Was World Middleweight Champion in John L. Sullivan's Era

He looks at us through mists of time, from faded, crinkled 19th-Century photographs.It's the jaw that draws you to him.Massive, clean, squared off. The jaw shows that here, plainly, is a man from the warriorclass.And he was. He was Jack Dempsey, decades before anyone ever heard of that other Jack Dempsey,...

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After seeing Iraq up close, top U.S. general wary on Syria

America's top military officer General Martin Dempsey has already seen one Middle Eastern civil war. He is much more cautious about involvement in another. While Dempsey, 61, has argued in favor of the White House's idea of limited military strikes against Syria and arming moderate rebels, he has made clear his lack of enthusiasm for widening...

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Gen. Martin Dempsey Leaves a Legacy of Caution

Tuesday’s nomination of a new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman began the formal winding down of Gen. Martin Dempsey’s tenure. Yet Gen. Dempsey’s vision—one of caution about U.S. military engagements and reliance on local partners—is expected to prevail through the end of Barack Obama’s term. Mr. Obama...

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Jack Dempsey, 87, is Dead; Boxing Champion of 1920's

Jack Dempsey was one of the last of a dwindling company whose exploits distinguished the 1920's as ''the golden age of sports.'' His contemporaries were Babe Ruth in baseball, Red Grange and the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame in football, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen in golf, Bill Tilden, Helen Wills Moody and Suzanne Lenglen in tennis, Johnny Weissmuller...

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