I did this follow up story on ex-Omaha heavyweight boxer Ron Stander about seven or eight years after the first story I did on him, which you will also find on this blog.  In that earlier piece Stander was still fighting some demons, still in the throes of recovery.  In the interim, Stander had come to terms with some things in his life ...

This is the first story I wrote about Omaha sports legend Ron Stander, a journeyman heavyweight boxer who got his Rocky and Great White Hope moment in the sun when he fought reigning world champion Joe Frazier for the title in the challenger’s adopted hometown of Omaha, Neb.  My story appeared some 30 years after that 1972 bout in which ...