Esteemed trainer/manager and HBO commentator Emanuel Steward stopped by Howard Schatz’s studio last week for his photo/boxing book project. Howard is pleased to share with you this portrait of the man with the “golden touch.” See Howard’s galleries here » 

© Howard Schatz for Sports Illustrated (6/13/09)

Mark Scoop Malinowski’s Heavyweight Armageddon: The Tyson-Lewis Championship Battle takes an inside look into one of the biggest money fights in boxing history – the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson battle for the World Heavyweight Championship in Memphis in 2002. Loaded with inside information, interviews, little-known anecdotes and much, much more, this book tells the full story about how the fight built up for almost two decades and, in the end, how the force of good ultimately overcame and conquered the threat of evil. Excerpts »

Many Options For Rebounding Cotto  NEW YORK – Boxers are rarely the same after taking the kind of beating that Miguel Cotto absorbed from Antonio Margarito in their welterweight title fight in July. • Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo were only shells of themselves after their epic 2005 lightweight title match. David Reid was barely competitive again following a pummeling he took from Felix Trinidad in 2000… By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports

Cotto: Margarito Gives Sport ‘Black Eye’  NEW YORK — Former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto doesn’t believe Antonio Margarito should be allowed to fight anywhere after his boxing license was revoked by the California State Athletic Commission… Associated Press, ESPN.COM