Perhaps the first thing ardent boxing fans thought of when they heard “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier died of liver cancer Monday was his knockout left hook. That’s fitting for the black Everyman slugger who punched his way out of his daddy’s South Carolina sharecropper’s fate, winning a gold medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics before becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in 1970. Read full article > >

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In trilogy with Muhammad Ali, the words hurt Joe Frazier most

Bernice King scanned a sea of more than a thousand faces in the great church — black, white, Asian and Latino — and described her life as the youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She was 5 years old when he was assassinated in 1968. Because he was so often on the road during the civil rights struggle, she said, “I came to know Dr. King more than I knew Daddy.” But after his death and her own call to the ministry, she said from the pulpit on Saturday, “the Daddy I came to know was a servant of a high God, obedient.” Read full article > >

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Martin Luther King Jr. is honored at national prayer service in Washington

As their father’s legacy is officially enshrined in granite on the Mall, the children of Martin Luther King Jr. have come to pay homage to their daddy. He is the man whose powerful shadow they could never escape, whose message they were expected to further and whose image they feel called to protect. “I try . . . to focus on the blessing of having been in this kind of a family,” Martin Luther King III said Wednesday in an interview at the Willard Hotel in Washington. “This is the only life I’ve ever known.” Read full article > >

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s children reflect on the weight of his legacy

Pink and husband Carey Hart are now the proud parents of a baby girl. “We are ecstatic to welcome our new beautiful healthy happy baby girl, Willow Sage Hart,” the singer said via Twitter on Thursday, perhaps surprising some with the only slightly unusual name choice. “She’s gorgeous, just like her daddy.” The 31-year-old, born Alecia Beth Moore, sent a mysterious tweet yesterday, hinting at her baby’s impending arrival: “New Moon in Gemini today a good time to start something new.” Read full article > >

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Pink and Carey Hart welcome a baby girl

MIAMI If this seeming playoff tribute to King Fame , Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant, youth and all the newness and hope a new champion can bring isn’t enough to make an aging hoophead feel ancient, this one cinched it: The Daddy is done. Read full article > >

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Shaquille O’Neal’s retirement leaves the NBA without one of its biggest ambassadors

Barack Levin recently showed his children where the kidneys are in a human anatomy book, trying to explain why their daddy has been taking so many pills and feeling so tired.

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At Thanksgiving, a tough talk