The greatest of them all.
Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74.
Meanwhile….
September 1, 2009
Ali leaves Turnpike Road in Ennis, County Clare, the location of the birthplace of his great grandfather Abe O’Grady. Earlier he had been made the first Freeman of Ennis.
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
Frasier v Ali, Madison Square Garden, March 8, 1971
Oh, my. Ali-Frazier, which even then was more a cultural touchstone than a boxing match, would probably paralyze us if it were held today, leveraging its various themes of race and politics on our social networking fulcrums. America would have to close for business to properly attend to this frenzy. Ashton Kutcher has 6.3 million Twitter followers? Ali would crash the Internet with his feeds (@smokinJoe is so ugly he should donate his face to @BureauofWildlife. #gonnawhupya).
Richard Hoffer, SI
