Ali's wife, Lonnie, revealed how the champ overcame his reading difficulties: "Muhammad, as a way of compensating, would memorize everything, and that's why he knows poetry so well." "Ali fights ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Boxing gave us Muhammad Ali. Ali gave the world much more ... One of the ways he rose above the ring was with his poetry. Sure, he could be silly and whimsical.

Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton fought three times in the 1970s. The record shows Ali winning two out of three, but had you asked ...

And a boxer can certainly sting. No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common.

In swimmer Katie Ledecky subtly altering the beat of her kicks, and Al Oerter, four-time Olympic discus champion, working in ...

She believes the series will draw listeners into Muhammad Ali’s world, fusing original music, sound design and poetry. “You can put his words in text, write them out, but when you hear them ...

Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing ... He also became known for his free-style rhymes and poetry during his time in boxing." Reports in recent years claim that Ali refused to ...

Muhammad Ali, the Louisville-born boxing champion who ... He ridiculed opponents. He spouted poetry, including his shortest: "Me, whee!" His influences — artistically and commercially ...

But then Molander read further: “Muhammad Ali talks with Boyd Christenson ... Lip for his boisterous predictions and poetry reading, Ali admitted his bad-mouthing, boasting and poetry had ...

when Ali was still known as Cassius Clay. As Robinson recalled it: “I saw Muhammad on television reciting poetry in Greenwich Village — that was no way to train for a fight. The next day I ...