(RNS) — Both men are known for wearing their faith, if not on their sleeves, then on the biggest platforms they commanded in their respective time periods: For Alphonse Halimi, a French bantamweight ...

Alphonse Halimi, 74, a former world bantamweight boxing champion from France who was nicknamed “The Little Terror,” died of pneumonia Nov. 12 in Paris. He had Alzheimer’s disease. The Algerian-born ...

Raul (“Little Mouse”) Macias was obviously among friends. Every Mexican who could make it was in Los Angeles’ Wrigley Field last week screaming for Macias to murder that little Frenchman in the other ...

Freddie Gilroy never saw the punch that shattered a world title dream. Freddie Gilroy never saw the punch that shattered a world title dream. It was a sizzling, split-second right hook to the head in ...