A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. He was the Manassa Mauler. He was Jack the Giant Killer. He was a popular sports figure in the New York City nightclub ...

Behind the scrum, George Horne replaces Jamie Dobie at scrum-half, with Josh McKay returning to the line-up at full-back in ...

In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

When Canadian cruiserweight Ryan Rozicki, 20-1-1 (19 KOs), enters the ring on May 3 to challenge Badou Jack, 28-3-3 (17 KOs), Rozicki will be trying to tap into the spirit of the legendary Jack ...

It's one of boxing's most endearing legends. Jack Dempsey went to bed on the night of July 4, 1919, after knocking out Jess Willard to claim the heavyweight championship of the world and dreamed about ...

FARGO — It must have gone through the minds of many in Fargo-Moorhead that July 4, 1923. What better way to celebrate America, they thought, than to cheer on a Minnesota guy — an underdog —hoping to ...

More than 1,000 fans showed up to greet heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey when his train pulled into Spokane. “Then Jack stepped from the train,” The Spokesman-Review said. “The greeting was ...

Jack Dempsey Campbell, 89, of Concord, California, died December 23, 2024, at Kaiser Hospital of a brief illness. Jack was born February 3, 1935, in a rural area of Pikeville, Kentucky the eldest son ...

After more than 35 years in the Boston Fire Department, the city's fire commissioner will accept mandatory retirement at the end of the month, leaving a third major city department without permanent ...

One of the most popular men in Washington is red-faced, white-haired John J. Dempsey, New Mexico’s lone Representative in the House. Onetime water boy on a railroad, hard-working Jack Dempsey fought ...