Muhammad Ali, a gold-medal winning Kerala athlete? Sports Minister Jayarajan thinks so

It was a phone call Kerala’s new Sports Minister, E P Jayarajan should have avoided at any cost; unfortunately he didn’t. The result: World’s boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, who died at an Arizona hospital, on Friday night, became an eminent sports star from Kerala. Not only that, Ali even won a gold medal for the state in his heydays and thus elevated the state’s fame internationally. All this happened on Saturday when...

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Muhammad Ali: How even the greatest worshipped 'The Greatest'

Cricket has in recent years lost some wonderful commentators: Tony Greig, Richie Benaud and Tony Cozier have all passed on taking with them their huge mass of knowledge, ebullience and incisiveness. You miss these people because they weren’t just voices calling a sport, they were facets of the sport itself, indivisible parts of your experience growing up watching cricket. It is the same regardless of the game, and for millions of...

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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies aged 74

The former heavyweight champion was widely regarded as the greatest boxer of all time Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world's best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday. He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease. The...

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