Sugar Ray Robinson: Fighting Toward Transcendence Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta.

Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater.. The ...

Rachael Horovitz, the producer who originally set up the Michael Lewis book Moneyball at Columbia about overachieving Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, has found a new sports figure to hang a picture on.

Wharton professor Kenneth Shropshire was just a teenaged boy selling hot dogs in a park in California when he first saw Sugar Ray Robinson. Though at the time he wasn't familiar with Robinson's ...

“It isn’t television, it’s HBO” is as arrogant as marketing slogans get. But the fact is, there are few facets of television at which HBO doesn’t do a better job than almost everyone else.

Sugar Ray Robinson was a diamond in the ring and sparkled outside of it. Fittingly, this biography is a gem. Author Wil Haygood takes you through every round in the boxing legend's life, starting ...

In 1939, Sugar Ray Robinson was born. Shortly after winning the New York Golden Gloves, Robinson turned pro at age 19. Aside from a hitch in the Army, Robinson's World War II life was marked by ...

Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta. Haygood is the author of a new biography of Robinson ...