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Fighters carrying on past their primes is nothing new. It's a time-honored, albeit sad, tradition. It has happened with more fighters than I care to count. Of recent vintage, Roy Jones Jr., Evander Holyfield and James Toney, to name just three, ha...

If a random reader strolled into my office this afternoon, looked me up and down, then said I should hit the bricks because I'm no good at my job anymore, you can imagine where I'd tell him to go. (And then I'd wonder how the guy got in the building ...

First, the caveat: Purely from the perspective of its immediate importance in the world of boxing rankings, what Bernard Hopkins did at age 48 to Tavoris Cloud in New York on Saturday night was of less significance than what he meted out to Jean P...

Floyd Mayweather Jr. certainly knows how to make the most of social media. He doesn't just post random tweets of betting slips; he knows how to use 140 characters to stir things up. One day, he's proclaiming that he's likely to fight Devon Alexan...

The last time Radio City Music Hall was graced by the presence of pugilism, pound-for-pound ace Roy Jones was on center stage. He battled out-of-his-depth David Telesco, in a light heavyweight title defense, on Jan. 15, 2000, and won a unanimous deci...

From Muhammad Ali to Floyd Mayweather Jr., the evolution of the boxing diva has changed what is considered acceptable behavior for modern athletes.

ESPN.com's Dan Rafael addresses the questions asked of him most frequently in his weekly chats for posterity's sake.

What if Roy Jones Jr. had remained a heavyweight after beating John Ruiz for a title in 2003? Might his superhuman reputation have held up in the division and changed how we remember him today?

Kendrick Lamar is on a roll. After being anointed the new king of the West Coast by the AARP Cali rapper collective of Dr. Dre disciples, he went on to appear on Drake's Take Care, release perhaps the rap album of the year in good kid, m.A.A.d city (...

The decision was one that nobody at HBO wanted to have to make, but it was necessary in the wake of Emanuel Steward's death last month. Besides training fighters, Steward worked as an analyst on HBO telecasts for about a decade, calling fights on ...

Usain Bolt said he's considering an offer to play cricket in Australia's Big Bash League next season. The Melbourne Stars franchise confirmed it has opened negotiations with Bolt. Here are some other pro athletes who have made cameos in other spor...

Colin will be joined by USA Today's Christine Brennan (10:45 a.m. ET), ESPN NFL analyst Damien Woody (11:15), ESPN MLB Insider Keith Law (12:15 p.m.) and former Olympian Roy Jones Jr. (12:30) on Tuesday. As always, email the show (theherd@espnradio....

You love basketball. It's your favorite sport. So you turn on your television next week to check out some Olympic hoops, eager to watch LeBron, Kobe, and 10 of their really tall, athletic friends do awe-inspiring tall-athletic-guy things. But from th...

CHICAGO -- It was bound to end here. No, Glen Johnson wasn't destined to call it a career in Chicago, and it's not that 24-year-old hometown fighter Andrzej Fonfara was precisely the fighter meant to send the former light heavyweight champ into re...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, legendary boxer, and HBO fight analyst, Roy Jones Jr. stops by to chat about Saturday night's fight between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley. Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO) takes on Bradley (28-0, 12 KO) in Pacquiao...

Roy Jones Jr., the former pound-for-pound king who won titles in four weight classes from middleweight to heavyweight, will fight in the cruiserweight division at a contract weight of 185 pounds, the CEO of Jones' promotional company told ESPN.com.