Scottish boxers Lee McGregor and John Docherty eye big games medals2017-03-19 · BBC Sport
Lee McGregor had a choice to make - bow to the money or chase a Commonwealth Games medal. The 20-year-old, who fights for Meadowbank Boxing Club, has won through to the finals of next month's Scottish Boxing Championships, where he'll face Jack …
CHASING JACK CHASE, Part 5: Fade to Black2010-08-31 · TheSweetScience.com
Like those other black men exalted and condemned by their remarkable skills, battling among themselves on the West Coast, he was never granted a world title shot and never got rich. But boxing gave him something better. It gave him something –heroic- to r…
CHASING JACK CHASE, Part 4: Californ-I-Am2010-08-26 · TheSweetScience.com
Six thousand fans were on their feet at the Legion Stadium in Hollywood on April 24th 1942 watching Jack Chase trying to tame Costello Cruz. Cruz was fighting like a “wild man” and it’s easy to see why. He had not been defeated as an amateur or profession…
CHASING JACK CHASE, Part 3: Unredeemed2010-08-23 · TheSweetScience.com
Since his release from prison in December 1935, Isaiah Chase had formed new attachments but failed to disconnect old ones. On Friday night, January 7th 1938, he and a friend were in Colorado Springs breaking into the Alpine Dairy on South Nevada Avenue an…
CHASING JACK CHASE, Part III: Unredeemed2010-08-23 · TheSweetScience.com
Since his release from prison in December 1935, Isaiah Chase had formed new attachments but failed to disconnect old ones. On Friday night, January 7th 1938, he and a friend were in Colorado Springs breaking into the Alpine Dairy on South Nevada Avenue an…