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  May 15, 2015
  

  Ali-Liston: The ‘phantom punch’ turns 50

  The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 Everybody gets in line. An adult whispers a short, perhaps confusing message in the first person’s ear. He relays […]

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  May 15, 2015
  

  SUN JOURNAL EXCLUSIVE: Never-before-seen photos from Ali, Liston training camps

  LEWISTON — One of the defining moments of this project came late in the process, when Sun Journal Chief Photographer Russ Dillingham unearthed four tan, tattered, vertical envelopes, each with a typewritten date and description near the top crease. These never-before-printed photos from the recently uncovered negatives offer a rare glimpse into what training was like […]

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  May 15, 2015
  

  ‘That was a very, very disappointing performance. That little flick, a phantom punch. Bah!’

  Former Lewiston Evening Journal Sports Editor Fred Gage worked for WLAM radio in 1965, and called the fight for the local AM station. These are his recollections of the fight and circumstances surrounding the events, as told to current Sports Editor Justin Pelletier in 2005. “The event itself was kind of a disaster, but the […]

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  May 15, 2015
  

  Clay stops Liston in one minute of first round

  Clay Retains Heavyweight Title in Lewiston Arena Lewiston lived up to its reputation as a fast-knockout town last night at the Youth Center when heavyweight champion Cassius M. A. Clay put away Charles (Sonny) Liston in a minute of the first round. Ring record books list Lewiston City Hall as the site of the fastest […]

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  May 15, 2015

  The Phantom Punch at 50: Commemorative issue to mark anniversary of Ali-Liston II

  LEWISTON — The city of Lewiston wasn’t the original destination for the second meeting between Muhammad Ali (then known to many as Cassius Clay) and Sonny Liston, but as Paul Marcotte of the Lewiston Evening Journal wrote in a stop-the-presses, breaking news story on May 7, 1965, Lewiston would become “the fight capitol (sic) for […]

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  July 21, 2014
  

  Oxford 250: Travis Benjamin tastes victory twice

  Defending race winner Travis Benjamin came from 27th on the 44-car grid, took over the point at lap 227 and held off a hard-charging Austin Theriault to win his second consecutive Oxford 250 Sunday evening at Oxford Plains Speedway. Josh Childs (Street Stock); Matt Bourgoine (NELCAR Legends); Kris Watson (Outlaw Series); and Mark Lucas (PASS […]

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  July 17, 2014
  

  Oxford 250 Race Results 1974-2013

  YR FLD 1st 2nd 3rd POLE LAST 74 38 Kourafas, Joey Rosati, John Summers, George McCallum, Jim Dingley, Sherby 75 37 Dion, Dave Summers, George L.D. Ottinger, L.D. Dion, Dave Leavitt, Gardiner 76 38 Lindley, Butch Nason, Ralph Kourafas, Joey Dion, Dave Baldiga, Bill 77 38 Biederman, Don Lindley, Butch Pressley, Bob Shepherd, Morgan Dennis, […]

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