Exploiting race is not new to boxing -- or to politics
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 27, 2017
2 minutes
In her acclaimed 1987 book, "On Boxing," Joyce Carol Oates lamented that the sport had become "America's tragic theater." So has politics. But let's look at one crisis at a time.
As Oates was writing "in the grip of an inexplicable, curious compulsion," she said, boxing was riding a crest of public excitement. Muhammad Ali had retired, but Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Spinks, Thomas
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