T he golden age of sports mined a rich vein of glittering heroes. There was Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat; Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost; Bill Tilden in tennis; and Bobby Jones on the links. And ...

Gene Tunney's parents were Mary Jean (aka Rose) Lydon and John Tunney. Both of his parents were born in Mayo, Ireland, near Kiltimagh, and moved to New York City. He won the heavyweight boxing ...

On September 23, 1926, in Philadelphia, Gene Tunney easily defeated Jack Dempsey for the title of heavyweight champion of the world, and in this exhaustively researched work, sportswriter Cavanaugh ...

A pair of 84-year-old boxing gloves — two lumps of orangey leather, scarcely bigger than ski mittens, newly arrived but not yet on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History — ...

Not many Stamfordites are aware that Joe Lieberman is not the only U.S. senator who grew up in Stamford. The other one? John Tunney, the middle of three sons of the former heavyweight champion, Gene ...

CHICAGO -- Gene Tunney held his world's heavyweight championship Friday by proved right of conquest, but his second battle with Jack Dempsey Thursday night, like most important fights of recent years, ...