Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.

When the Champ met Castro.

“The regular average layman couldn’t see what I see. And the way they’re painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there, screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what to do. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like an animal, like a horse to be trained.”

A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.

Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.

A writer’s chance meeting with his idol.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

On the late Angelo Dundee, who trained Muhammad Ali.

Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.

Muhammad Ali and his followers were the greatest show on earth. Then the show ended, and life went on.