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Article: Ali And Cosell: one was the great-grandson of slaves and a convert to Islam, the other was the son of polish immigrants and a nonobservant Jew. But as a new biography reveals, theirs was a partnership that transcended race, religion, and personal history and would ultimately knock the world off its feet, here, an exclusive sneak peek.(SPORTS LEGEND)(Sound and Fury: Two Parallel Lives, One Fateful Friendship)(Excerpt)
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Individually, Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were two of the most interesting personalities to emerge from the '60s and '70s, each in their way establishing new standards by which to judge success in their respective fields. View them together, however, and one begins to see how their influence was able to expand beyond their individual arenas--professional athletics for Ali, sports broadcasting for Cosell--and into the larger playing fields of politics, religion, and popular culture. For more than 20 years the two appeared together in countless interviews and at scores of sporting events, all the while forming a unique friendship-cum-partnership that would prove key in ...
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... ... few tuned him out. They heard Cosell support Muhammad Ali when he refused military induction ... led to a studio scuffle between Ali and Joe Frazier. "Howard Cosell was a good man and he lived a good life," Ali said. "I have been interviewed ...
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