Champion boxer Nonito Donaire is recovering from a frightening bout of dengue fever that put him in the hospital with a 104-degree temperature, his manager told The Associated Press on Thursday. Donaire, a Filipino-born fighter raised in California's Bay Area, fell ill Wednesday in the Philippines, where he has ...

Known for its Stalin-era convict-labor camps, Matt Korobov’s hometown of Orotukan lies in the forbidding Magadan Oblast region of Russia, one of the sprawling nation’s most remote areas. Even so, videocassettes of blockbuster boxing matches — their images portraying the likes of Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler — made their way to the far-flung location, a fount of ...