Muhammad Ali News

Museum of the Moving Image will present Kartemquin at 50, a major retrospective devoted to the not-for-profit documentary collective Kartemquin Films, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

A group of iconic sports legends and special honorees will be celebrated by The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, at its 31st Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner on Monday, September 12 at The Waldorf Astoria.

Just announced this afternoon, Roundabout Theatre Company will welcome Chuck Cooper as 'Pischik,' joining Diane Lane, Tavi Gevinson, John Glover, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Harold Perrineau and Joel Grey in a new production of The Cherry Orchard.

ESPN will showcase highlights of the Sports Humanitarian of the Year Awards tonight Friday, July 15, during a 30-minute program at 7 p.m. ET.

The biggest stars from the worlds of sports and entertainment gathered at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to celebrate the best sports moments of the year at “The 2016 ESPYS Presented by Capital One.”

Chris Paul takes home the Sports Humanitarian of the Year Award; San Francisco Giants win for Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year Award; Bank of America wins Corporate Community Impact Award and the NBA wins the League Humanitarian Leadership Award.

On July 13, some of the world's premier athletes and biggest stars will join host John Cena on stage for “The 2016 ESPYS Presented by Capital One.”

ESPN's award-winning news magazine, E:60, returns tonight at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN to tell the best stories in sports.

Just weeks after Muhammad Ali's death on June 3, The Daily Mail writes that Sope Dirisu will portray the iconic boxer in Kemp Powers's play ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI at the Donmar Warehouse this autumn.

Ardea Arts announces BOUNCE The Basketball Opera, their latest project in development. Showcase performances will take place at Paerdegat Park in East Flatbush, Brooklyn Today-Monday June 25-27, 2016 at 6pm.

Allowing readers to spend personal moments with popular names from history, author Walt Brown announces the release of his new book, 'Athletes, Celebrities, Personal Moments, The 60s and 70s' (published by AuthorHouse), which he says shows 'society repeats itself and you, today, will share similar moments from the past.'

On Sunday, July 10th at 6pm, the Ridgefield Playhouse Film Society "Documentary Films Series" will present Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation's "TeamFox for Parkinson's Disease Research program."

The issue dedicates 34 pages not only to Muhammad Ali's life but also to the multitude of ways the boxer helped define the lives of so many others

Ardea Arts announces BOUNCE The Basketball Opera, their latest project in development. Showcase performances will take place at Paerdegat Park in East Flatbush, Brooklyn Saturday-Monday June 25-27, 2016 at 6pm. BOUNCE is a free, non-ticketed event, open to the public. For more information, visit www.ardeaarts.com/bounce/.

As previously announced in March, Graceland Auctions, the exclusive auction house for Muhammad Ali, is continuing with plans to hold an unprecedented, official Muhammad Ali Enterprises Auction on August 27, 2016.

CBS SUNDAY MORNING, the nation's #1 Sunday morning news program, posted gains in viewers and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for June 5.

Billy Crystal will sit down with NBC's Matt Lauer for an exclusive interview following the funeral service for Muhammad Ali to reflect on the boxing legend's life and legacy.

TV One is pre-empting its regularly scheduled programming today, June 10, to broadcast live the Memorial Service of American Olympic and 3-time World Heavyweight Champion Boxer Muhammad Ali. Beginning at 2 p.m. ET, Roland S. Martin, host of TV One's News One Now, the only daily live news program dedicated to Black viewers, will report from the show's Washington, D.C. studios. In addition, TV One will continue to celebrate the life of 'The Greatest of All Time' with a special encore presentation of the one-hour documentary, 'Muhammad Ali: Fighting Spirit,' airing at 7 p.m. ET. The special reviews the epic journey of Ali, who was crowned 'Sportsman of the Century' by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the BBC in 1999.

CBS News' FACE THE NATION was the #1 Sunday-morning public affairs program in viewers and adults 25-54 (tied with ABC), according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for June 5, 2016.

BET Networks mourns the death of Muhammad Ali and commemorates his legacy with the BET News special, BET Remembers Muhammad Ali: The Memorial Service Friday, June 10