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Liston, Sonny (1932?-1970) Summary
595 words, approx. 2 pages Charles "Sonny" Liston is best remembered as the man who lost the heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), in 1964. A fearsome slugger, Liston captured and terrified the American consciousness in the early 1960s. His...
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 It is uncertain exactly when Liston was born. He was probably born in 1929, but no one knows for sure as there is no son named Charles listed with the family in the 1930 census. Even Sonny's mother, who was called Big Hela, didn't know, though she...




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Today in history - Feb. 25
2/25/2007: 550 words, approx. 2 pages Today is Sunday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2007. There are 309 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in...
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Jaheim - Still Ghetto (Warner Bros.)
6/23/2003: 530 words, approx. 2 pages As intense as a Sonny Liston sucker punch, Jaheim’s magnificent baritone blasts out of your speakers and knocks you to the ground. Though his sound is aggressive and masculine, there’s a disarming tenderness at its core. R&B may be churning out ruffneck Romeos by the...
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Ali still 'The Champ' a generation later
3/20/2007: 900 words, approx. 3 pages The chant began before the eighth round flickered onto the screen, an echo from a day long past. "Ali bomaye! Ali bomaye!" Muhammad Ali shook slightly as the chant _ which means "Ali! Kill him!" _ washed over him. He looked up from his seat...
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Column: When Ali lost to Father Time
12/9/2006: 1,031 words, approx. 3 pages The ring was set up in a sandlot baseball stadium, surrounded by rickety bleachers and folding chairs.Someone had forgotten the bell, so they rang a cowbell to begin and end rounds. Someone else had forgotten the key to the padlock for the gate, so the...



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Sonny Liston
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 Sonny Liston was born as a child of a sharecropper in Arkansas. Sonny was only one of seventeen children. When Sonny went to school, he endured frequent beatings as a child. Sonny Liston Started to work early as his fathers opinion, " if he can sit at a table, he can work." When Sonny became a teenager at the age of 13 he escaped from his father in St. Louis to reunite with his mother.


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