Bert Sugar

This is going to sound like the punch line of a familiar joke, but stick with me. Guy walks into a bar. Sits down. For two or three hours, he doesn't even sip a beer, much less the hard stuff. That guy would be the teetotaling me. So what am I doing in a bar? Listening to my friend, the great boxing writer and commentator Bert Sugar, who died on March 25 at 74, telling stories of the fight game, as only "the Hat" could. On more than one occasion, anywhere the pugilistic arts were on display, I would be invited...

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