Happy birthday, Champ!

• Author: Anderson, Dave

At 65, you're still the people's heavyweight champion. You're the reason the best boxing now is on ESPN Classic, when you, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman dominated the Golden Era of heavyweight boxing. With or without the title, you fought all over the world, and you always made it fun. You refused to be drafted during the Vietnam War, and when you went to court as a religious objector to the war over what you called "my beliefs" as a Muslim, you turned many Americans against you. But not Long after your toss to Frazier in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in your...