Although this charismatic boxer was born Walker Smith, Jr., he is best remembered as Sugar Ray Robinson. Born on May 3, 1921 in Ailey, Georgia, his parents moved the family to New York when Sugar ...

Sugar Ray Robinson, ... New York Daily News published this on April 13, 1989. ... Yankees’ Aaron Judge leads vote-getters, earns 7th All-Star nod ...

Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta. Haygood is the author of a new biography of Robinson ...

All of Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday, April 15, as it was on this day that the former Dodgers’ trailblazer debuted and broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947.

Basquiat’s most valuable work at auction was a 1982 Untitled, which sold for US$110.5 million in May 2017 at Sotheby’s in New York. Sugar Ray Robinson last appeared at auction in 2007.

Sugar Ray Robinson, a Force of Personality. October 10, 2009. By Wil Haygood. ... stepped off one of those planes when it landed in New York and drew a crowd of gawkers.

When speaking about Walker Smith Jr, otherwise known to boxing fans as Sugar Ray Robinson, Muhammad Ali referred to him as “the king, the master, my idol.” Joe Louis said Robinson was “the ...

But Sugar Ray found the world outside New York wasnâ t as welcoming. He entered the Army in 1943, and it worked out that Joe Louis happened to be in the Army at the same time.

Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater.. The ...

Wil Haygood talks to Steve Inskeep about the life and career of Sugar Ray Robinson, including his many fights against rival boxer Jake LaMotta. Haygood is the author of a new biography of Robinson ...