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Nobody else is Jim Brown

Updated: December 27, 2002, 3:01 PM ET
By Ralph Wiley | Page 2 columnist

Once upon a time, more than three decades ago, a 20-year-old boxer shook up the world by outclassing the fearsome Sonny Liston.

This newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world, Cassius Marcellus Clay, then changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

Soon after, he was summoned to an audience by an even higher athletic authority at the time. The best African-American athletes of then expressed a desire to know if the controversial and indeed widely loved and widely despised Ali was sincere ...

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