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Fight Doctor Ferdie Pacheco Pays Homage to 5th Street Gym

Courtesy Ferdie PachecoFerdie Pacheco talks to Muhammad Ali between sparring sessions at the 5th Street Gym in Miami Beach.​If you grew up in Miami Beach prior to 1993, the floor above the neighborhood drug store on Fifth Street at Washington Avenue was a magical place.For more than a quarter-cent ... More >>

The Dead Among Us

One week of living and dying in Miami-Dade.

Liberty City Violence claims a boxing promoter's son, UPDATED

On Thursday, Riptide finds Roosevelt Ivory, Sr. stepping out of a white Lincoln Navigator, accompanied by an apparent bodyguard, at his two-house compound on Northwest 69th Terrace in Liberty City. It's advertised as "Roosevelt's Rooming House" in the White Pages, but this certainly is no Days Inn. ... More >>

Grady and the Champ

For better and worse, Muhammad Ali left his mark on a generation of Miami boxers

In the Rough

A half-century before the Tiger Woods era, black Miamians fought a losing battle to hit the links

Lord of the Ring

Boxing isn't just a hobby to Hank Kaplan. It's an obsession. Which is why he's the sport's foremost expert.

The Haunting of Alex Daoud, Part 2

The disgraced former Miami Beach mayor comes out swinging at his former friends and associates

Before Duran and After

Cuban exile and WRHC-AM sports talk-show host Minito Navarro has always had a passion for punchers

Daud Descending

With prison just around the corner, Miami Beach's former golden boy looks back at the gravity of his corruption and broods on the sorrow of his fate

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