I have been called a "coward" and a "rabbit" and an "Uncle Tom" by Cassius Clay, and many people think that I share their contempt for him, but I do not. Cassius Clay, I think, is at heart a modest ...

On October 19, 1810, Green Clay, cousin of former Senator Henry Clay, and Sally Lewis welcomed their son, Cassius Marcellus Clay, into the world. Little did they know how colorful a character their ...

If you were standing 15 years ago in front of Louisville’s Broadway Cinemas, in which Will Smith was playing “Ali,” and looked either way down the wide avenue, a story of a different part of Muhammad ...

Larry Boeck was a longtime sports journalist for the Louisville Courier-Journal who covered Muhammad Ali for years. He died in 1972. Here is an excerpt from a profile Boeck wrote in 1966. Some people ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay might have been invented by a novelist with a penchant for the improbable. One of the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the antebellum era, Clay was born into ...

This article originally appeared in the October 1963 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. One thing that stuck in my mind, for some reason, was the way ...

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Muhammad Ali is one of the most well-known and presumably the greatest boxer of all-time, but the former heavyweight champion of the world was first ...

Before Muhammad Ali was The Greatest, he was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., a kid with fast legs and a faster mouth growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1940s and ‘50s. He didn’t know he could box.

A records search by USA TODAY Sports indicates Muhammad Ali never legally changed his name from Cassius Clay — and lived in an era when he didn’t have to. Officials in Kentucky, where Ali was born, ...