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BoxingDeep Down, Boxing Lifer Don Conley Was a Softy
Arrested for burglary at age 10 when police found him hiding under the bar at the Southside Club on Stockton Boulevard, Don Conley never knew his...
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WorldwideMonroe Brooks Remembered For Heart, Not Anemic At All
Boxing in Sacramento was on life-support in the early 1970s, with no main event fighter enough of an attraction for promoter Babe Griffin to confidently finance...
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WorldwideThe Many Faces of Henry Clark
Of all the people I’ve known who had “champagne tastes on a beer budget,” 1960s heavyweight contender Henry Clark was the least forgettable. Born in Baton...
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Already well-known in his Fair Oaks neighborhood when the Sacramento Bee newspaper celebrated 90-year old Dr. William Black as being the oldest practicing physician in the...
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WorldwideThe Sun Rises Everywhere
A third of Hawaii’s population in 1941 was of Japanese ancestry, so it should be no surprise that many of the 68 civilians deaths resulting from...
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WorldwideHow We’re Living During Coronavirus: “A Tidy Mess”
One of my favorite lines in literature comes from Pete Dexter’s novel, Train, when the shop-worn boxer Plural comments, “The world is a hungry place, man....
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