Posts Tagged ‘Joe Frazier’

SI.com: Smokin' Joe Frazier's feud with Muhammad Ali cools

Boxing legend Joe Frazier is again the focus of a story of mine, though this time I’ve filed a Frazier piece for SportsIllustrated.com, likely the most recognizable brand in sports reporting for a half-century. “Smokin’” Joe Frazier is still fighting. The former heavyweight champion of the world is 65 now, and his mind isn’t nearly [...]

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WHYY: Joe Frazier wants his whole story told

Boxing legend Joe Frazier is the focus of my second professionally produced radio piece, though the first to carry the radio station’s name in my disptatch. Eight months after filing a trial state government report for the Harrisburg bureau of KYW 1060 news radio, I proudly completed a feature report for WHYY, Philadelphia’s NPR affiliate. [...]

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Boxing legend and son fight different type of foe

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 16, 2007 | The Temple News Marvis Frazier has always had to live up to expectations. He was the boxing son of a boxing legend. Names carry a lot of weight. Sometimes even enough to crush a heavyweight boxer with big hands and big plans. It might have been nothing [...]

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