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SI.com: Richard O'Brien: The People's Champ

Saturday night's fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov is being ballyhooed as a heavyweight championship unification bout. That doesn't mean all that much in these days of balkanized belts, faceless titleholders and the general eclipse of boxing. Ah, but once there were giants. For a sense of just what the heavyweight title meant in an earlier time -- both in the world of sport and beyond -- tune in a couple of hours before Klitschko and Ibragimov get ready to rumble (or stumble, or whatever it is today's big men do) for HBO's lovingly produced and provocative Joe Louis: America's Hero ... Betrayed, a documentary on perhaps the greatest and most important heavyweight champion of all time.

Behind the scenes at the Detroit auto show

Things are a teensy bit weird here in Detroit. It's a cross between Wacky Wednesday and Alice in Wonderland: Nothing is as it should be, and some things are downright trippy.

House votes to limit congressional gold medal awards

Concerned that the prestige of the congressional gold medal is being diluted because Congress is doling out too many of them too often, the House voted Wednesday to cap the number of medals approved each year at two and placed other restrictions on who can receive it.

'The best-known black man on Earth'

Not long ago, a publishing company put out an enormous, lovingly assembled book dedicated to the career of Muhammad Ali. The book, which weighs 75 pounds and costs $3,000, is titled "GOAT: Greatest of All Time."

'Nobody asked me, but ...'

Jimmy Cannon, the wonderful New York sportswriter, once offered this memorable line about the heavyweight boxing champion known as the Dark Destroyer: "Joe Louis is a credit to his race ... the human race."

Fortune: FREE THE PROFESSIONAL 2,900!

Put yourself in the cleats of the professional athlete. Having aced your way through an MBA in high finance, you are drafted in the second round by Green Bay Securities -- a well-established, mediu...

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