I have been called a "coward" and a "rabbit" and an "Uncle Tom" by Cassius Clay, and many people think that I share their contempt for him, but I do not. Cassius Clay, I think, is at heart a modest ...

This article originally appeared in the October 1963 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. One thing that stuck in my mind, for some reason, was the way ...

La'Tevin Alexander as a young Cassius Clay in "And in This Corner: Cassius Clay," onstage at Oregon Children's Theatre through March 25. (Owen Carey) By Amy Wang | The Oregonian/OregonLive Before ...

Cassius Clay won his Olympic gold medal in 1960 as a whip-thin light-heavyweight three months out of high school. The bravura, the quips, the manipulation of opponents and the media – in short, ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first ...