By William Douglas-McClatchy Newspapers Washington, DC- Sen. John McCain and Rep. Peter King are hoping that they have a fighting chance of persuading the nation’s first African-American president to pardon posthumously the world’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. McCain, R-Ariz., and King, R-N.Y., were to unveil a congressional...

Joe CalzagheLEARNED OF JOE CALZAGHE AT NEWMAN’S GYM San Francisco, CA– It was 1996, “Irish Pat” Lawlor and I were in a downtown gym when the subject of his recent fight with Joe Calzaghe came up. “Joe hit me the hardest I’ve ever been hit in my life.” Outside of...