Jack Dempsey is remembered as a fighter who left early, but that memory misleads more than it explains. He stepped away from ...

In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

Last August, onetime Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney, now chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute because it was ...

Jason Tunney, a lawyer who was born and raised in Saginaw and has lived in the city nearly his whole life, is running as a Republican for Michigan’s 35th state Senate seat for a few reasons. One is ...

The studied opinion of James Joseph (“Gene”) Tunney is that the potbelly is one of mankind’s most degrading afflictions. As director of the U.S. Navy’s Physical Fitness Program, he is determined to ...

Over the years, boxing has had some fans’ favorites as far back as when Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney drew 120,557 fans at Sesquicentennial Stadium in Philadelphia on September 23, 1926, for Dempsey’s ...

”Gene Tunney, a writer who stands at the opposite pole from Hemingway, having abundantly established his prowess in action. . . .” When Critic Max Eastman wrote this last month in The New Republic in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Robin Tunney (The Mentalist) are set to star in Divine Blood, an indie dark comedy marking the feature directorial debut of husband-and-wife duo Paul ...

Many an alarmed adult considers Youth brash, bad-mannered, ignorant and Red. Some even think that Youth is organized like a labor union, that Youth is a Movement. Last week grown-ups who think these ...

There are Pundits and pundits. A capitalized Pundit is a member of a queer, recondite, fraternal clique, annually replenished from among Yale students by famed Academic Tycoon William Lyon Phelps.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 22, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The buildup was epic. Mid-June, 1937. Joe Louis ...

That a gorilla can lick a heavyweight prizefighter—even three prizefighters—was a pet theory of the late great Journalist Arthur Brisbane. Last week, onetime (1926-28) Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney ...