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Read More at Wikipedia ›The question has puzzled doctors since the days Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division and boxing rivaled baseball as the biggest sport in the nation:Why do some fighters suffer brain damage from punches taken in the ring while others get hit in the head for years and show few effects?A study that has applications outside of boxing could provide at least a partial answer to that one and this, too: Why do some football players suffer concussions while others don't?Researchers say their intent isn't to end contact sports, but to find ways to make them safer.
"You can't stop these sports, and the last thing we want to do is stop these sports," said Dr. Charles Bernick, the chief investigator for the project. "But we want to be able to protect athletes from long-term brain issues."Some 148 current boxers and mixed martial arts fighters have already taken their first set of tests for the study, funded mostly by Las Vegas hotel magnate Kirk Kerkorian and conducted at the Cleveland Clinic's ...NEW YORK (AP) — Boxing is making its long-awaited return to Yankee Stadium , where icons like Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis once plied their trade.WBA junior middleweig...
NEW YORK (AP) — Boxing is back at Yankee Stadium after more than three decades.Greats such as Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton have been replaced by Miguel Cotto and Yuri...
NEW YORK (AP) — Yuri Foreman is the junior middleweight champion, an aspiring rabbi with an engaging back story. The drawing card is Miguel Cotto, the revered former...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Every time that Miguel Cotto was asked whether he was finished, so many savage fights having taken their toll, he would answer simply that his traini...
By Larry FineNEW YORK (Reuters) - The champion's walk to the ring was heralded by the sounding of the shofar, or ram's horn, used in the Jewish religion during the h...
Former 175-pound champion Antonio Tarver outpointed Nagy Aguilera to win his heavyweight debut Friday night.The 1996 Olympic bronze medalist had been working as an a...
Next step, the Super Bowl. The NFL's final four has a strong connection to the big game, from the first champion (Packers) to the winner of perhaps the most signific...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Pavlik won the middleweight championship in Atlantic City, then made a triumphant return to the Jersey shore when it came time to defend it.Now...
LA offers reward in 1977 death of `Rocky' figureWednesday, March 11, 2009 By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press WriterPrintLOS ANGELES — The city announced a $50,000 r...
Today in History - April 12Sunday, April 12, 2009 By The Associated PressPrintNEW YORK — Today is Easter Sunday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2009. There are 263 days...
When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight against social injustice, he excited...
At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat's short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, dood...
NEW YORK -- Bill Gallo, a cartoonist and columnist for the New York Daily News , whose playful characters included depicting the blustering New York Yankees owner Ge...
Just like old times, Angelo Dundee and Muhammad Ali were together again at the gym they made famous.Nearly six decades after it first opened, the famed 5th Street Gy...
Give Floyd Mayweather Jr. credit for one thing. Like any great fighter, he knows when to turn and run.A day after unleashing a racist rant against Manny Pacquiao tha...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lost his skepticism of mixed martial arts when he saw everything that the sport and the UFC have done for Nevada.He thinks New York...
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Flores handed a digital camera to a friend and grabbed a place next to Babe Ruth's monument in the famous park beyond the center-field wall at...
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