Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It didn’t take long for Sugar Ray Seales to produce the Olympic gold medal that put him — and Tacoma — on the map back in 1972. As ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Legendary American boxer Sugar Ray Seales was celebrated at the Indy Shorts International Film Festival, where his remarkable journey from Olympic glory to personal resilience ...
1972 Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Seales sits on a bed in Shiloh Baptist Church in Tacoma, Wash. on March 29, 2023. Seales fell into homelessness after returning to Tacoma after the death of his ...
TACOMA, Wash. — "I do remember when we moved to Tacoma his name and his presence was something that was just kind of in the air," artist Stan Shaw said of Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Seales. "He ...
Like a lot of people in Tacoma, Tom Llewellyn and Lance Kagey know all about Sugar Ray Seales’ Olympic gold medal run. It was 1972, in Munich, at a summer games marred by a terrorist attack that ...
TACOMA, Wash. — “Sugar” Ray Seales still carries a piece of history in his pocket: a gold medal from the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. He’s the only U.S. boxer who can make that claim. “I feel I’d ...
It didn’t take long for Sugar Ray Seales to produce the Olympic gold medal that put him — and Tacoma — on the map back in 1972. As we walked down the wooden stairs at Shiloh Baptist Church on Hilltop, ...
Sugar Ray Seales finally has a place of his own. Five months after the legendary boxer left Indianapolis and returned to Tacoma, in the aftermath of the death of his longtime wife, the 1972 Olympic ...