Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Family Affair:

Muhammad Ali did not attend Hofstra's conference on the boxing great. But Ali's daughter, Maryum "May May" Ali (pictured right) was a featured speaker at the Reflections of a Fighter panel and was in the audience for the discussion with reporters who covered her father's career.




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The Third Man in the Ring:

Famed boxing referee Arthur Mercante attends Muhammad Ali panel. Mercante was the official in the ring for many of Ali's most famous fights, including his bouts against Joe Frazier and George Forman.

Mercante, a New York resident for 60 years, refereed more than 120 fights in five continents before retiring. He officiated ALi's first fight againist Frazier, which some historains have dubbed the "Fight of the Century."

(Brian Bohl)

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Famed cartoonist Bill Gallo, who started working for the Daily News in 1941 and continues working for them to this day, shows off one his favorite drawings about Muhammad Ali.

(Brian Bohl)

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Students and non-Hofstra University members came out to the Guthart Cultural Center Theater on Nov. 13 for panel on Muhammad Ali.

The panel was called "On the Raod with Ali: Trainers, Promoters and Journalists."

(Brian Bohl)

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Nearly 200 years of combined sports reporting experience: Veteran journalists who covered Muhammad Ali.

Left to right: WRHU Professional in Residence Ed Ingles, NY Times Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Anderson, former Daily News writer Phil Pepe and Daily News cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo (Photo Brian Bohl)