Muhammad Ali, Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century, Dies at 74  —  Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died on Friday.  He was 74.

The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali  —  What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming.  Muhammad Ali, who died Friday, in Phoenix, at the age of seventy-four, was the most fantastical American figure of his era, a self-invented character of such physical wit, political defiance …

‘I JUST WANTED TO BE FREE’: THE RADICAL REVERBERATIONS OF MUHAMMAD ALI  —  Ali was shaped by his times.  But his death should remind us that he also shaped them.  —  By ,  —  Muhammad Ali leaves the Armed Forces induction center with his entourage after refusing to be drafted into the Armed Forces in Houston, Texas, April 28, 1967.