Originally published in the September 1983 edition of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission.

Originally published in the Sept. 30, 1981, edition of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission.…

Originally published in February 1983 in the Philadelphia Daily News. Reprinted with the author's permission.

This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's…

Here's the last of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry Holmes.…

Here's the third of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry…

Here's the second of four Pete Dexter columns about Randall "Tex" Cobb's heavyweight title fight against Larry…

In November 1982, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Pete Dexter went to Houston to watch his friend Randall "Tex"…