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The Good, the Bad, and the Ali

Muhammad Ali stood alone in the ring, alone when he converted to Islam, and alone when he denounced the Vietnam War.

Muhammad Ali in training in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, on Jan. 24, 1974, for his second fight against Joe Frazier.

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On The Gist, Dave Zirin calls in from Muhammad Ali’s funeral procession in Louisville, Kentucky. Zirin is sports editor at the Nation, host of the Edge of Sports podcast, and author of the Muhammad Ali Handbook. For the Spiel, questioning the assumptions in the Stanford University rape case. 

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