Richard Hoffer

Joined: Dec 11, 2013

From becoming a two-time heavyweight champion to a preacher to a businessman, Foreman was constantly reinventing himself.

Boxing

O.J. Simpson on the set of the movie “Fire Fight” in 1978.

NFL

John Madden’s Revolutionary Impact, Style Will Never Be Replicated

NFL

Muhammad Ali—boxer, activist and provocateur—dead at 74

Boxing

SI Vault: Legacy of Mickey Mantle, last great player on the last great team

MLB

When Mickey Mantle died in 1995, a nation of fans grieved and were forced to confront just what it was that made the New York Yankees' star mean so much to so many people.

SI Vault: Mayweather's record-breaking 2007 fight vs. De La Hoya

Boxing

As anticipation builds for Floyd Mayweather's May 2 showdown with Manny Pacquiao, we take a look back at his 2007 bout against Oscar De La Hoya, a match that pitted Mayweather against the sport's other superstar of the time and—like Floyd vs. Manny—drew w

Boxing

This SI 60 examines Mike Tyson before his 2002 title bout against Lennox Lewis, when he may have been on the verge of a breakdown -- or just a really smart promoter.

SI Vault: A Break In The Action: Sports paused in a heartbroken nation after 9/11

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This story originally appeared in the September 24, 2001, issue of Sports Illustrated. The crawl on the bottom of our screens, reserved in better days for

The Importance Of Being Barry: The best player in baseball? Barry Bonds. (Just ask him.)

MLB

In honor of Sports Illustrated's 60th anniversary, SI.com is republishing, in full, 60 of the best stories to ever run in the magazine. Today's selection comes

SI Vault: Too good to be true: How the 1994 season should have finished

MLB

The players' strike ended the 1994 season prematurely. But here's how things should have wrapped up in what would have been one of the sport's greatest ever years.

Playing, home run prowess, not broadcasting, should define late Kiner

MLB

Still, it seems a shame to remember Kiner for anything he said, whether it was silly or incisive, when his actual body of work was so much more impressive,

Jackie Robinson, Jeremy Lin have pioneered change in sports, society

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As far as that goes, wonder if that black president, that Barack Obama -- wonder, when he was a little kid, if he ever watched any sports, learned anything