Mike Tyson grew up in crime-infested neighborhoods of New York City. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Brownsville where he lived with his siblings and mother. Although Tyson never knew his biological father, he often witnessed the abuse of...

Born in Brooklyn and educated in the pugilistic arts on the New York streets, Mike Tyson went on to become history's youngest world boxing champion at age nineteen. From the start of his professional career in 1985, Tyson displayed...

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30 1966) is a former two-time American world heavyweight boxing champion and is the youngest man to win the heavyweight title. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tyson was considered one of the greatest...

ONE VIEW being heard in the post-mortem examination of Mike Tyson's rape conviction makes it sound as if the Indianapolis jury was sitting in judgment on rich and famous African-American males or the sexual lifestyle of professional athletes. Mike Tyson's trial had nothing to...

Michael Wilbon's piece in the Feb. 12 Sports section, "Entitled to Everything He Got," should be posted in every men's locker room across the country and reprinted in every sports magazine. Perhaps Mike Tyson's conviction will wake up his apologists and others who...

Mike Tyson has checked himself into an inpatient treatment program for "various addictions" while awaiting trial on drug charges, his lawyer said Wednesday."He needed to get involved in something that would help him with his addiction," attorney David Chesnoff said. Chesnoff wouldn't describe Tyson's addictions,...

Mike Tyson was arrested early Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police stopped him shortly after he left a Scottsdale nightclub, police said.The former heavyweight champion appeared in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix later Friday and was...